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While doing my best to continue scrolling past the litany of tweets lambasting the Mail for its committed and oh-so-shocking anti-cycling editorial line (more on that later… maybe, if I feel like it), I stumbled across this post from active travel campaigner Adam Bronkhorst, which showcased a rather ingenious method of enforcing the Highway Code’s 1.5 metre passing guidelines:
Chapeau of the highest order to this cyclist.
(Look closely at the photo) pic.twitter.com/heTqyqKJr8
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) August 21, 2022
Although, for safety reasons, I would probably warn against this particularly pointy alternative solution to the same problem:
You wouldn’t catch me doing a silly thing like that…….. ahem pic.twitter.com/2DHzaEn5RD
— Paul (@FinchettsBrook) August 21, 2022
Unsurprisingly, Adam’s tweet reeled in (geddit? Fishing rod, reeled in? Yeah?) a few of the usual suspects, after they had finished digesting the Mail’s latest scandalous revelations, of course.
Thankfully, the phones and thumbs of Cycling Twitter were at the ready with some well-rehearsed retorts:
Cyclists don’t need to do this stuff. All it does is annoy. At some point someone is going to think it’s great fun just to clip that, throws you off balance you crash and then a family is grieving for no reason. Why antagonise? Drivers will go round you. Stop this battle
— Pnr8 (@rast8) August 22, 2022
Some will yes and not because they hate us, this will end in a terrible accident for zero good reason.
— Pnr8 (@rast8) August 22, 2022
I do that all the time. However a driver has never pulled over when there is traffic to let me ( a faster moving vehicle) past. When was the last time you pulled over to let a cyclist past in traffic?
— Adam Bronkhorst (@AdamBronkhorst) August 22, 2022
If you want to talk about safety, then there are 10 other things that keep anyone on a bike safer than an unregulated polystyrene hat that will not withstand a fall at more than 10mph. Let’s talk the other 10 safety initiatives first
— Noon (@Noonkemp) August 22, 2022
— David S (@Pionir) August 22, 2022
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