The pool noodle is good, but I dunno if I’d want to bike with a stick poking out from my bike towards cars. Can you pit maneuver a bike? Because it seems like the stick would make it more vulnerable to that.
The fiberglass sticks are flexible, and should bend or break before the biker is harmed, assuming the stick is near the rear wheel. The front hub is too prone to being twisted, and there is more torque the farther you go from the rear wheel.
It would also be a liability to everything around you, so padding it with the noodle at the end or a tennis ball might be better.
Like the other person said, they are really flexible. Really, my dream would be to have something like that that’s on a hinge, or is otherwise deployable while riding so you could have it out while on roads, but put it out of the way while on bike paths.
The pool noodle is good, but I dunno if I’d want to bike with a stick poking out from my bike towards cars. Can you pit maneuver a bike? Because it seems like the stick would make it more vulnerable to that.
The fiberglass sticks are flexible, and should bend or break before the biker is harmed, assuming the stick is near the rear wheel. The front hub is too prone to being twisted, and there is more torque the farther you go from the rear wheel.
It would also be a liability to everything around you, so padding it with the noodle at the end or a tennis ball might be better.
Like the other person said, they are really flexible. Really, my dream would be to have something like that that’s on a hinge, or is otherwise deployable while riding so you could have it out while on roads, but put it out of the way while on bike paths.