Flag
08-15-09 | 11:54 AM
#1
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Flag
Hi
I see visibility as a main safety factor, and as such I want to fit a flag to my daughters bike.
I have seen a flat on ebay that mounts on the rear wheel nut.
I have only seen flags on trailers, anyone else seen this idea used on road bikes? I might just buy a Yorkshire flag.
G
I see visibility as a main safety factor, and as such I want to fit a flag to my daughters bike.
I have seen a flat on ebay that mounts on the rear wheel nut.
I have only seen flags on trailers, anyone else seen this idea used on road bikes? I might just buy a Yorkshire flag.
G
08-15-09 | 03:13 PM
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LBS should have flags, or able to get them, +/- $10 usd. on my commuter i have a 4 ft flag (orange) attached. use this flag on tour as well! very geeky, but who cares as long as seen. add string lights, panniers, and air-zound and see response to being seen!
ride VB, be seen!
ride VB, be seen!
08-16-09 | 08:25 AM
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Hi
I have seen a flag on sale on ebay, barbie! I assume LBS is short for local bike store? I am in the UK.
I have asked at 2 bike shops, even a very large Halfords, no flags. I have seen a 3 mtr flag pole on ebay, I may buy a separate flag and some form of bracket to clamp it to the frame.
G
I have seen a flag on sale on ebay, barbie! I assume LBS is short for local bike store? I am in the UK.
I have asked at 2 bike shops, even a very large Halfords, no flags. I have seen a 3 mtr flag pole on ebay, I may buy a separate flag and some form of bracket to clamp it to the frame.
G
08-16-09 | 05:52 PM
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Four foot? In what way?
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
08-17-09 | 08:26 PM
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From: south jersey
08-19-09 | 05:56 AM
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here is the website for flash flags. they only take mail in checks as their website is down.
it works. cars give me more clearance as they pass me
https://www.flashback.ca/bicycle.html
it works. cars give me more clearance as they pass me
https://www.flashback.ca/bicycle.html
08-19-09 | 08:40 PM
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Correction:
the flags i use extend from rear axil upward, actually "Vertically", from ground upward! they are
orange flags attached to white fiberglass (?) poles, LBS is suppler!
i have seen "horizontal" flags extending from seat post of bicycle out, equal distance from the ground, but much less often.
sorry for the non-clarity, wrong terms.
t
the flags i use extend from rear axil upward, actually "Vertically", from ground upward! they are
orange flags attached to white fiberglass (?) poles, LBS is suppler!
i have seen "horizontal" flags extending from seat post of bicycle out, equal distance from the ground, but much less often.
sorry for the non-clarity, wrong terms.
t
