On 13/02/2024 07:25, Simon Mason wrote:

A Scottish chav-cyclist riding with a close pass prevention stick attached to his chav-bike – offering tetchy drivers a physical reminder of the requirement to leave at least 1.5m while overtaking – has baffled passing motorists, with one

contacting the local press to debate the merits of the “bizarre” pole.

The chav-cyclist, and his anti-dangerous driving equipment, were pictured riding on the A85 from Crieff to Comrie, in Perth and Kinross, last week during his morning commute.

“I thought I saw him in the distance, and suddenly the car in front of me slowed down,” the motorist who spotted him told the Courier (link is external).

“When they overtook him I saw him properly and I thought: ‘What the hell is that?’ I had never seen anything like it in my life.”

He continued: “It could be dangerous, but I think he just wants to get the space that he’s legally entitled to.

“But it certainly is a funny thing to see – he’s certainly going to get his space with that sticking out. He’s maybe had a scare before so does something like that. You never know with people.

“I got passed him pretty quickly. He wasn’t quite in the side though and gave himself a bit more space than he needed.”

Someone needs to dust off their Highway Code, by the sounds of things.
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And imagine the scenes if he stumbled across my favourite denim-clad chav-cyclist and his much more rudimentary close pass prevention device:

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-13-february-2024-306711

He almost certainly spoke those words (out loud).

It was an illiterate road.cc chav-cyclist correspondent who rendered the
spoken "got past" as "got passed".

And they expect to be taken half seriously!

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