Get a f'ing bell you t***
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Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
From my days with the Sealed Knot.... "Have a care" works for the same reason
Rhythm Thief
Legendary Member
- Location
- Ross on Wye
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
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"Walking every Sunday for Jesus!"
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You need a jersey with "Cycling for Satan every day" emblazoned across it
"Walking every Sunday for Jesus!"
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You need a jersey with "Cycling for Satan every day" emblazoned across it
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
My favoured cyclepath "Excuse Me" is "Have a care sir/madam". I've oi'ed when someone has stepped into my path & there isn't time for anything more polite. I do like the Crane Bell Suzu in Brass as an audible warning though.
I think the thing to recognise is that a great many people in Britain dislike cyclists, regardless of how polite and considerate you are (or are not). You will upset some by speaking, some by using a bell, and that's just the way it is, I'm afraid.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
I used to know someone who had a small sack of spanners that he'd kick dangling from the handle bars
he was old and eccentric.
i tend to do a road runner impersonation of 'meep meep' as it has a comical edge
I also shout 'oi' at cars, being a tall yorkshireman they can still hear me despite having the radio on.
although it did lead to an argument with a BMW since I shouted moments before ending up sat on her bonet
but she was coming the wrong way out of a very narrow one way street.
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Most people would just kick a door or rip a mirror off. Sitting on the bonnet sounds a trifle eccentric.
Black Sheep
Guru
- Location
- Rammy
its where I landed.
Kirstie
Über Member
@cunobelin - your first post on this thread was one of the funniest posts i've read this year....
The problem with bells and other forms of hailing (apart from the AirZound) is that pedestrians have to be as alert to them as cyclists have to be prepared to use them. I've been in many a situation on tow paths etc where despite ringing my bell nobody has actually bothered to listen out for it! And then you get grief... In France, I found that the level of awareness was a lot higher and so the bell was heard, rather than ignored.
The problem with bells and other forms of hailing (apart from the AirZound) is that pedestrians have to be as alert to them as cyclists have to be prepared to use them. I've been in many a situation on tow paths etc where despite ringing my bell nobody has actually bothered to listen out for it! And then you get grief... In France, I found that the level of awareness was a lot higher and so the bell was heard, rather than ignored.
Campfire
Über Member
- Location
- near Risley Moss, Warrington
I have a bell and it sometimes sounds a bit muffled. I ring from a distance, then if they don't hear because either they are deaf or wearing earphones, do it again. Then they look so surprised! Sometimes I change gear and to over a bump so they seem to notice me better then. I hate it when a whole family take the whole width of the path and don't seem to grasp that someone else might want to pass them, either way.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
must admit once i start using a bike a bell is the first thing i fit , most people ignore them
