Get a f'ing bell you t***

[asterix]

its where I landed.

I am sorry to hear that. I do hope you dented it without harming yourself.

 

[cyberknight]

How about a set of these

and a shout of "RRRaaRR !! "as you send them flying ?

 

[Davidc]

No symathy with your walkers Maggot, they needed Cunobelin's airzound at close range, but I think the most gentle and polite way to announce a bike's presence is a ding ding on the bell and a polite thank you when people get out of the way, which they usually do.

If they don't get out of the way a few carefully chosen obscenities usually works, but in my experience it's rarely necessary

I'd love one of Baggy's jerseys though!

 

[Arch]

How about a set of these

and a shout of "Reindeer coming through"?

Oh yes! I gotta get me a set for Christmas. How festive is that? Maybe some ankle mounted ones like morris dancers wear which would jingle as you pedalled.

I'm planning to get a fibre optic Christmas tree to ziptie to the bars, from the pound shop.

What's that Christmas tune that starts with rhythmic jingling bells like that - not Jingle Bells, it's a classical piece I think.

 

[phantasmagoriana]

How about a set of these

and a shout of "Reindeer coming through"?

Excellent - already got some of those, but never thought of attaching them to the bike...perhaps I could get some of those cheap battery-powered fairy lights too for extra cycling festivity!  

 

[Arch]

Excellent - already got some of those, but never thought of attaching them to the bike...perhaps I could get some of those cheap battery-powered fairy lights too for extra cycling festivity!

Do! I got a set of red ones last year, and bunched them up under my saddle, with the battery box wrapped in a plastic bag and tucked under the saddle rails. Made quite an eyecatching sight, all bundled up, but bouncing a bit, and illuminating all the tubes and mudguard and stuff.

Pound shops are heaving with this sort of thing, and while I don't generally approve of mindless consumerism, you can have a lot of fun, (and make people smile) with something silly and seasonalm and for a quid or so, it' no great loss if it gets nicked, or only lasts a few weeks.

I rode to Whitby on the YACF night ride, with a pumpkin (a bag shaped like one, designed for kids to carry their trick or treat haul in) dangling from my trike flagpole, illuminated by a little LED back up light. People on the ride said it made an interesting feature, a soft orange light bobbing about in the dark.

 

[Ravenbait]

Oh yes! I gotta get me a set for Christmas. How festive is that? Maybe some ankle mounted ones like morris dancers wear which would jingle as you pedalled.

I'm planning to get a fibre optic Christmas tree to ziptie to the bars, from the pound shop.

What's that Christmas tune that starts with rhythmic jingling bells like that - not Jingle Bells, it's a classical piece I think.

Troika. From Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsRDpsItq0&feature=related



Sam

 

[Arch]

Troika. From Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related


Sam

Thank you! It's one of my favourite 'Christmas' tunes. That and a Sally Army band playing In the Bleak Midwinter, which makes me want to cry.

There's something about the troika that really evokes the brittleness of a frosty snowy landscape.

 

[Ravenbait]

Thank you! It's one of my favourite 'Christmas' tunes. That and a Sally Army band playing In the Bleak Midwinter, which makes me want to cry.

There's something about the troika that really evokes the brittleness of a frosty snowy landscape.

Have you heard the prog rock Sky version?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju88tqHtZ1o


Bless.

Sam

 

[Kirstie]

Have you heard the prog rock Sky version?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ju88tqHtZ1o

Bless.

Sam

PMSL! I thought I'd heard the last of that version 25 years ago*!

*I'm a closet Sky fan...

 

[Arch]

Have you heard the prog rock Sky version?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ju88tqHtZ1o

Bless.

Sam

Now, I'm a bit out of touch with modern youth culture. If I say I liked that, am I doomed to humiliation and ridicule for ever?

Coz I did like it. Might have to see if I can buy a download, it'll fit on my MP3 player between Oxygene, and Popcorn.

Might get the original too.

 

[Ravenbait]

No, ladies. You are perfectly entitled to cast your money in the direction of the prog rock/classical mash-up beat combo that is John Williams's Sky without fearing mockery or opprobrium.

You can get the titular album as MP3 download from Amazon, but not Cadmium (the album that has Troika). Good luck finding that one.

There is a terrifying karaoke version of Cadmium available -- given that Sky only ever produced instrumental tracks, this concept has broken my brain.

Sam

 

[MontyVeda]

in relation to Troika by Sky....

Now, I'm a bit out of touch with modern youth culture.

my god how old are you!

Just kidding

I bought a bell last year... one of them new fangled single spring ping things... ping one and the ped just moves their head slightly as if they just had an idea , but have no idea what it was... ping two they usually look around and evntually see me.

On the shared paths around here I'd say a bell is essential... and as mentioned by some, inoffensive enough.

By far the worst peds I've encountered is/was a regular running group who jogged up the shared path from Salt Ayre sports centre to morecambe and back... a 20+ team of 'fanatics' taking up the entire path, one of whom would have the decency to shout BIKE, alerting their colleagues and all the rest would completely ignore the warning/alert/jesture and make zero effort to make a space for me trying to pass them head on (as if my two bright front lights werent enought for them to see)

each and everytime i'd end up stationary with said joggers tutting at me as if I'm in the wrong as they pass me on all sides... "Were you lot born f'ing ignorant or did you go on a course?!?!?"

grrrrr

 

[Arch]

No, ladies. You are perfectly entitled to cast your money in the direction of the prog rock/classical mash-up beat combo that is John Williams's Sky without fearing mockery or opprobrium.

Thank goodness. I'm so out of touch. I did buy a current CD a while back, by Mumford and Sons, it's the most up to date I've been for ages, and I only heard of that because one of their tacks was used in a BBC trailer (and in fact they are all over the TV as backing music now...)

I found a minute long snippet of Troika by Sky to download, but that's not really enough.

Prokofiev is easy enough though.

 

[TheDoctor]

Have you heard the prog rock Sky version?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=ju88tqHtZ1o

Bless.

Sam

I'll see your Sky and raise you an Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Oh, the humanity!!

The Prokofiev kicks in after the first verse - about 0:45 or so.