Bicycle Safety Spacer – flexible – better than fixed Safety Arms
Safety Spacer Snap Band
(3-piece set)
€19.90 (free shipping)
Quantity discounts up to 20 %
Safety Spacer for bicycles –
Greater safety for cyclists when overtaking
Every cyclist experiences it almost daily: a car overtakes without maintaining the required safety distance, often at high speed. This causes stress and anxiety even for experienced cyclists.
Often, it isn’t possible to swerve out of the way due to kerbs or parked cars. Even on quiet residential streets, cyclists are overtaken at extremely close range when they keep their distance from parked cars to avoid colliding with doors that suddenly open.
Some cyclists try to protect themselves with a spacer called a ‘distance paddle,’ ‘lollipop reflector’ or ‘safety arm fold-out,’ which is attached to the luggage rack and was widely used in the 1970s and 1980s. Or they improvise with homemade spacers such as 1.5-metre-long pool noodles. As effective as pool noodles are at indicating the correct distance when overtaking, they are not suitable for everyday use. Drivers often react aggressively when cyclists demand a little more safety distance this way. Furthermore, pool noodles are impractical. When cars are waiting at a traffic light and you want to pass them in the narrow space between cars and kerb, the noodle gets in the way.
Our Safety Spacer Snap Band is the practical spacer for every cyclist, every bike, every ride, every traffic situation, every day, and every time of day.
It fits all handlebars and is easy to attach, flexible, handy, and collapsible.
The Safety Spacer’s bright reflective yellow snap band is highly visible in dark underpasses, in bad weather, at dusk, and at night.