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PUSH-BACK the CARS
DANGER RETRACTOR
In France the highway code prescribes a minimum distance when overtaking cyclists (1 m in town and 1.5 m on the road).
Alas the practice is quite different. Cars are dangerously close to us in town and on the road
There is the bicycle Danger Retractor. Unfortunately the length of the commercial ones is ridiculously short. Therefore, without a saddlebag, the effect is already almost nil. The end of the spreader does not even reach the width of the handlebars.
When riding a bicycle, the spreader does not protrude beyond the bags. So legal spreader or nothing it's the same result: the vehicles graze us shamelessly.
Having read on the web about the positive effect of extending the retractor, we have followed and improved this idea:
- A bracket is attached to the back of the luggage rack.
- At the left end of the support a spring hinge allows the spreader to be in 2 positions:
- Widely deployed in the city or on the road,
- carefully folded on a path or bicycle path.
Result:
- In the extended position the commercially available danger spreader exceeds the total number of panniers.
- In folded position NOTHING protrudes from the panniers.
The small mechanical device is hinged, with springs for bistable support:
- Holding in the folded position.
- Holding in extended position.
as sold…
… and after processing
Deployed 
Folded
It may seem insignificant, but the effect is HIGHLIGHTFUL..
Vehicles very often overtake us beyond the legal distance.
And if other vehicles arrive in the opposite direction, they wait behind the possibility of overtaking us.
Obviously the possibility of scratching the body of their car is a greater deterrent than the risk of knocking over the cyclist!
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE CAR PUSHER
The detail of the do-it-yourself solution of the mechanism is HERE.