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June 26, 2012 at 6:55 pm #944187
MCL1981
Participant@Jason 23500 wrote:
The bells seems to confuse tourists. No $hit I have seen some look straight up in the air as if tinkerbell is talking to them. I find a combination of yelling, and mad bell ringing works about 50% of the time.
These are the same ones that look at the sign that says “INSERT CARD HERE” on a metro faregate and scratch their heads. Some are beyond help.
June 26, 2012 at 8:04 pm #944198Arlingtonrider
ParticipantWhen my bell doesn’t register, I’ll sometimes slow down and ask them in a friendly way if they need any help with directions. Often they say no thanks and step to the side. Otherwise, I mow ’em down. Just kidding about that last part, but I like for people to leave town with a positive feeling toward cyclists.
June 27, 2012 at 3:08 pm #944280brendan
Participant@Arlingtonrider 23522 wrote:
…Otherwise, I mow ’em down. Just kidding, but I like for people to leave town with a positive feeling toward cyclists.
Heh, brings this to mind…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MifyYHbnGaE
(I think most of the audience was missing the point)
Brendan
July 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm #945186vvill
ParticipantBells are now totally pro!
thank you Peter Sagan
July 12, 2012 at 1:37 pm #945546GuyContinental
Participant@vvill 24606 wrote:
Bells are now totally pro!
thank you Peter Sagan
Bummer, they made him take it off before S11 as an “extraneous fitting.” Seems like it would be a good tool for a domestique on a water run to have…
September 20, 2012 at 5:33 pm #951730Dirt
ParticipantI hate bells a little bit less than I did yesterday morning.
STi Incredi-bell thanks to the lovely folks at Bikenetic.I’ve never liked the impersonal *Ding Ding* “I expect you to behave” way of getting through traffic. I’d rather talk to people or better yet, sing to them and I’ve had better luck with it. That said…. For a bunch of reasons I found that I MUST get over my dislike of using bells. This bell makes it pretty easy to just do a variant of what I already do… Greet people by voice, give them a little ding, talk to them again and then thank them and wish them a happy day. So far it has worked pretty well. I really only had one person go Crazy Ivan on me… which they might have done even without my use of the bell… Their jump to the left (unfortunately not followed by a step to the right, putting hands on their hips or pulling their knees in tight) might have happened even if I hadn’t added the ding to my routine.
Not sure that I’m really a convert yet… but this barnacle brain might bend.
Love,
Dirt
September 20, 2012 at 5:54 pm #951743ShawnoftheDread
Participant@Dirt 31678 wrote:
I hate bells a little bit less than I did yesterday morning…. This bell makes it pretty easy to just do a variant of what I already do… Greet people by voice, give them a little ding, talk to them again and then thank them and wish them a happy day.
Not all of us have the lung capacity for that. I’m lucky to squeek out a wheeze along with my bell on some parts of my ride.
September 20, 2012 at 5:59 pm #951749Dirt
Participant@ShawnoftheDread 31691 wrote:
Not all of us have the lung capacity for that. I’m lucky to squeek out a wheeze along with my bell on some parts of my ride.
Singing is actually part of my workout.
September 20, 2012 at 7:39 pm #951769pfunkallstar
ParticipantI’ve never been a big fan of bells, mostly because of crippling thumb arthritis and a haunting childhood fear of large bells brought on by a trip to Philadelphia.
I usually just whistle as much of Beethoven’s 4th as a I can remember, if I get lost I start over with Penny Lane then transition into barbershop.
September 20, 2012 at 7:47 pm #951776thecyclingeconomist
Participanthttp://deltacycle.com/Airzound-Bike-Horn
I have an incredibell, but this is for the “in-the-city”… “hey stupid…car driver”…
I wouldn’t use for people/pedestrians or otherwise, but for in-traffic, this is legit.
September 22, 2012 at 1:29 am #951954 -
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