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How you look on a bike seems to influence how drivers treat you? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kinda wanna know if other people have this experience. I noticed if I'm on my bog-standard boring bike on my commute, people are absolute fucking dicks with overtaking, trying to squeeze in front and such.

If I'm on my singlespeed with a messenger bag, that gets a lot better for some reason and people give me more space.

On the touring bike it's a mixed bag, allthough it seems that both the area becoming more touristy, like rolling hillsides, or I look absolutely out of place, like in city centers, people also get nicer.

I get the feeling that it's down to perception. Commute-bike-7bicycles is an elitist rich twat who can afford to live near work and has no obligations and such. Singlespeed-7Bicycles has a U-Lock in reach and doesn't look afraid to use violence, like all the crazy bike messengers, touring-7bicycles in aforementioned areas is just fulfilling some sort of dream, like we all have.

Is there merit to this? What are other possible explanations?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stop wearing the helmet according to this study.

https://psyarxiv.com/nxw2k

Dr. Walker’s 2007 study used a bike equipped with a camera and a distance measuring device. He recorded data from 2,500 drivers who passed him on the roads close to his workplace, the University of Bath. Half the time he wore a bicycle helmet and half the time he didn’t. The results showed motorists tended to pass him more closely when he rode wearing a helmet. Such “punishment passes” can also lead to collisions, collisions which can result in injury and death – and not to those guilty of the dangerous overtakes.

Walker suggested that drivers believe cyclists who wear helmets are more serious, experienced and predictable than those who ride without, and motorists, therefore, overtake them with less care.

I think the best option is to be visible but also plain-clothes and a more upright cruiser geometry. Also trying to make eye contact can also help if practical.

Drivers' perception is fickle but statistical significant factor.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh that was the study I was thinking of.

I was searching and also found this one, also more about cyclists in general rather than cyclists type.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/28/study-aggressive-driving-is-linked-to-seeing-cyclists-as-less-than-human

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's anecdotal but I often cycle on sort of narrow country roads or fire roads and the most surefire way to get cardrivers approaching from the front or back to reduce speed and give you more space is to look like an absolute amateur at riding a bike. Especially from the front I can often see someone braking the exact moment I start wobbling my bike over the road