Cyclist rides with close pass warning poster on bike
“Close passes are a manifestation of driver entitlement”: Cyclist receives barely any close passes while riding with ‘Don’t drive so close to me’ poster on bike – but claims “everything went back to normal” once sign was removedA cyclist who rode for an entire month with a giant poster attached to his bike – emblazoned with the slogan “Don’t drive so close to me” and reminding motorists to leave cyclists 1.
Throughout January, Tim cycled around, on mostly local errands to the shops, with a sign reading: “Don’t drive so close to me! 5 feet please ” – a reference to the Highway Code’s advice to motorists to only overtake cyclists “when it is safe and legal to do so” and by leaving “at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car”.“It had an effect – I received only about four close passes in the entire month, throughout 120km of riding,” the retired maths teacher says.
However, once Tim removed the poster from his bike at the end of the month, the close passes and dangerous driving returned with a vengeance, he says. “On social media the picture is much worse – Facebook comments under local news outlets posts about my campaign ran the whole gamut of anti-cycling bingo,” he says. “If I paid too much attention to them, I’d hang up my Lycra!”
“I was riding a tricycle recumbent, and I suspect drivers assume either I am disabled or that the weird thing is unstable and either way, give a wide berth.” Rob said that, as part of the campaign, passionate activists are trying to get their message heard via hard-hitting social media posts and billboards, while speaking to politicians and other influential figures to reach those beyond the cycling community about the hazards of life on the road for people on bikes.
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