Monsieur
Senior member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Car window stickers
- Thread starter Spinney
- Start date
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marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
I've got one of the 'Stay Awesome' stickers on the back of Fungus the Clio. I keep meaning to move it, as I think the rear wiper obscures it.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
I cant really see how someone could get upset for someone having a sticker on a car.
If anyone gets stickers made up, they need to be flourescent to be seen in the dark. Very few people read them so they may as well be of some use.
If anyone gets stickers made up, they need to be flourescent to be seen in the dark. Very few people read them so they may as well be of some use.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
They are obviously more touchy than me then.
OP
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
I think it's also the possibility of attempting to shift blame - "My sticker told them to stay back and they didn't, so it's their fault I hit them..."
jefmcg
Guru
Sounds more like a threat to me.
blazed
220lb+
Cyclists are a minority and as such many have a massive chip on their shoulders.
"cyclists stay back" is obviously meant as a safety warning, only really ever seen on large vehicles.
jefmcg
Guru
A quick google finds a few eg
Also turned up this beauty - wouldn't it be easy to fix the bulb?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Alas, a lot of cyclists are so oblivious to their own safety that they need such warnings. Unfortunately, this Darwin Awards candidates aren't the sort to bother reading warning notices.
I'm not offended by such signs. If cyclists weren't dumb enough to do it, the industry wouldnt waste the time, effort and money slapping such stickers on their vehicles.
I'm not offended by such signs. If cyclists weren't dumb enough to do it, the industry wouldnt waste the time, effort and money slapping such stickers on their vehicles.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Because they're usually completely bogus instructions: telling us not to overtake at all (even on the right), blame-shifting (translation: "my vehicle is unsafe or my driving is substandard and I'm not going to fix it until forced") and generally contributing to the myth that there are hordes of cyclists overtaking on the left in the same lane and getting run down rather than motorists doing dangerous last-gasp overtakes on the entrances to junctions.
Fluorescence doesn't work in the dark. Maybe you mean reflective or luminous?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Oh I'm lucky. I don't have to ride near nobbers with those stickers much. They're a symptom of how some motorists have completely the wrong attitude about sharing the roads. I think it should be a fine and penalty points for displaying a sign that contradicts the Highway Code on a vehicle.
It just reminds me of a nobber with one of those stickers who repeatedly parks on the cycle track a few miles north of here. Fairly large drives on those houses and space on all of them, but no, that one parks obstructing the cycle track. Not seen them recently, though. Maybe a passing bike scratched it
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
How about one for the NS of lorries - "If you can read this, you're in grave danger."
