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I've seen someone with a pool noodle sticking off the side of their bike at the minimum passing distance for cars. I think it's a great passive option.
I think even better is one of the fiberglass reflective marker rods.
If you wanted to be extra good, you could run a flashing light out to the end of it, and if you wanted to be extra bad, you could place something like broken spark plug ceramic at the end that would scratch up a car, but be harmless to humans.
I think even better is one of the fiberglass reflective marker rods.
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Yeah, all USian home-improvement stores block access to their sites from outside the US. It's a bit weird.
The pool noodle is good, but I dunno if I’d want to bike with a stick poking out from my bike towards cars. Can you pit maneuver a bike? Because it seems like the stick would make it more vulnerable to that.
Like the other person said, they are really flexible. Really, my dream would be to have something like that that's on a hinge, or is otherwise deployable while riding so you could have it out while on roads, but put it out of the way while on bike paths.
The fiberglass sticks are flexible, and should bend or break before the biker is harmed, assuming the stick is near the rear wheel. The front hub is too prone to being twisted, and there is more torque the farther you go from the rear wheel.
It would also be a liability to everything around you, so padding it with the noodle at the end or a tennis ball might be better.