Etiquette

[AJsinVA]

The other day we were out for a ride and I went to pass two people (man and woman). I stated that I was passing and proceeded to do so with plenty of room. The guy decided he wanted to race and sped up leaving me in the other lane with a jogger coming. I passed him, but not being ready for him to jump like that I was not ready to hammer it out. Very inappropriate. I have found that even when you warn people sometimes they just don’t care. So be careful…

[Dirt]

Yeah. Gotta love the people that want to race you on a Multi-use trail. Heaven forbid their fragile male ego get bruised.

[Dirt]

@Chris Eatough 387 wrote:

There are small ones available that give a single “ding”.
All the bells I have seen mount with a small screw.
The can be small enough that you can leave them on there for all of your riding.
You won’t even notice it’s there, until you use it.
Check out your handlebars before you buy to see if the mounting area is oversize (ie. wide).
Some bells will open enough to mount on an oversize bar, some will not.
This one would mount on most size bars.

I’m considering equipping my Surly Big Dummy with a 3 foot diameter, 15th Century, Chinese gong.

[Mark Blacknell]

More gong.

[AJsinVA]

A cow bell…Not aero and weighs a ton…but kinda retro cool.

[Dirt]

@Mark Blacknell 406 wrote:

More gong.

Is that from the AC/DC “Hell’s Bells” skit on SNL?

I guess that makes it official. Definitely need a gong to hang off my nice rack. Bwahahahaha

[jabberwocky]

@Dirt 404 wrote:

I’m considering equipping my Surly Big Dummy with a 3 foot diameter, 15th Century, Chinese gong.

Thats almost as good as the guy I saw on the Capital Crescent a few years ago riding down the trail with a huge ghetto blaster bungied to his rear rack, blaring “eye of the tiger” at top volume.

[Dirt]

@jabberwocky 412 wrote:

Thats almost as good as the guy I saw on the Capital Crescent a few years ago riding down the trail with a huge ghetto blaster bungied to his rear rack, blaring “eye of the tiger” at top volume.

Oh that’s definitely going to be something that gets done a time or two on the dummy. Eye of the Tiger over and over again will be a big improvement over the jinglebells that I normally ride with.

[AJsinVA]

A little Twisted Sister is nice too…I wanna ROCK….

[Just161]

@Vogy_Says 384 wrote:

Exactly, the lane has been widened on the humpback bridge so two bikes can be on it at once. The chicanes are annoying and should be removed, people ride through them and then dismount and then people walk across the bridge and mount before going through them again- rendering the whole thing useless.

Also, the tunnel under Memorial- that can fit a biker and runner- happened to me yesterday.

Vogy — looks like those cones/chicanes were removed yesterday. Hoorah!

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