I've often thought that, if I were to travel regularly by bike, I'd get a pool noodle and strap it to my frame so I have the legally mandated 3' of distance.
Then I'd put paintballs in the far end and then I could tell who broke the law.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
668 points (99.4% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
26718 readers
3666 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Wait, 3 feet???? That's legally mandated??? What country do you reside in? I have cars coming within mere inches of me whenever I make the mistake of riding my bike on the road! Getting clipped twice as a teen by cars going 45 mph also instilled a huge fear into me, and I was absolutely hugging the curb!
1.5m in Spain. Super rare for anyone to get closer and if it does it's probably a tourist. All drivers will just follow you until it's safe to pass even if you're going uphill.
Just because you drive on roads with dipshit drivers doesn't mean it's not law already. In the EU a meter distance when overtaking is normal.
1.5m when you are outside urbain area.
2m in Germany
I just checked my state laws. Apparently, the 3-feet law does exist! But I haven't ever seen a single driver in my area adhere to it.
https://www.ncsl.org/transportation/safely-passing-bicyclists-chart
But I'm fortunate! Some states don't even have laws about passing cyclists.
Personally, I don't care if it's legally mandated. It's what is safe and I give bicycles 3 feet at minimum when I'm driving.
What kinda bicycle seat is that? Seems more like a scooter platform.
It’s a cargo platform on an extended-frame bicycle. The seat is out of frame.
It's just a cargo rack
Pretty sure that's the fender and the seat is in front of it with a weird perspective, cause otherwise the fork would be really far back right?