"Todd and Sage have a nice way of encouraging motorists to give them space - some colourful whirligigs that extend a bit out from their bikes. They were biking on Bloor, in the part that has long been known to the City as extra-dangerous and needing the bike lanes, and it seems that these extensions do a really fine job of getting motorists to shove over, and almost make a bike lane space for us, without the white lines, etc. This is nowhere near the large constructs to car size that the activists at Le Monde du Bicyclette attached to their bikes in the Montreal activism that helped that City surge forward to a fine bike city, but they look colourful, effective, cheap and fairly easy to attach. Photos by Hamish Wilson
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Very smart!
I bought a flag on a plastic spring loaded pole its about 17 inches long sticks out from the rear of my bike to stop cars from getting close enough to knock my handlebars with their mirrors; and when I'm towing a trailer. They don't want to get their car scratched so they keep their distance usually. Got it at Urbane on John Street. Folds out of the way when not in use.
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