Not as far as I’ve understood what he’s said. The article portrays the “upside down bike” as some kind of internationally recognised system when it appears that plenty of people with a lot of experience have never come across.
Apologies if this is the way it comes across. Never expected this to get the reach it has. The intent is to raise awareness (as I said in a previous comment, I’ve not seen it either, though it does appear a lot more common in Europe and not the UK). Hopefully we’ve helped to make it more of ‘a thing’ so that people will recognise it as something to slow down for.
To clarify, the idea is that this isn’t a thing as such, but the riders involved would like it to be something that’s more widely recognised in the interest of keeping everyone safe on the trails. However you choose to do it, we all have a responsibility to make sure we’re doing the best we can when the worst should happen.
The hope is, that when seeing this and used in the safest way possible that it could prevent further accidents. As most have said, they would see it and slow down. The issue in this circumstance is the rider couldn’t be moved and his friends wanted to stay with him and keep him safe.
