Olly Buckle

I would like two bells for my push bike, one of them I am sure somebody somewhere already makes. I have read stories in the newspaper about them being banned at football matches. Basically it is a klaxon attached to a compressed air bottle so I can let drivers know they are going to kill me, it may not stop them, but they won’t be able to plead ignorance. The other bell is for those ever more frequently encountered occasions when the cycle path and footpath run together. Pedestrians often don’t notice and a bike is much faster and almost silent. What I want is something that provides an “audible warning of approach”. Something that will instantly be noticed, not cause offence and is gentle enough for a pleasant, shady path. What would it sound like? Well I think the Nokia tune would be perfect, it wouldn’t startle anyone or seem out of place anywhere nowadays. Enough people have owned or do own a Nokia that most will register it instantly “Oh, is that mine?”. The rest have seen Dom Joli and will go “It’s a phone, it’s moving a bit fast, someone on a bike is heading straight for me and looking for his phone”. Then look over their shoulder and step out the way, easy. The other thing I want is a light on the roof of the car in a different colour that means “Oh no! I can’t believe I just did that, I am sooo sorry”. Except that wouldn’t work, it would be misused by nerds and end up like my horn, something I don’t use for fear of inciting aggression.

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adrianhayter

I hesitate to travel outside of the USA anymore. The authorities might not let me back in -something to do with my subversive youth. So what's a pushbike?

If it's a bicycle, did you ever pin playing cards against your wheel spokes. I did so I could sound like a motorcycle.

Adrian

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Olly Buckle

It is indeed a bicycle, I wanted to distinguish from a motorcycle as I think I have mentioned that I rode one regularly until recently and bike is a bit ambiguous. We used to use a cardboard square cut from a cigarette packet pegged to the fork with a clothes peg. In those days "fag" packets were the commonest form of litter and sometimes even still had the cigarette cards in them. They were used for playing "flicks" up against a wall.

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The Backward OX

For the pedestrians, have you ever tried simply shouting "Fire!"?

Olly Buckle

"Mind your backs, wet paint!" works well too.

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I had a tremendous advantage in life, at the age of eighteen I caught polio and for eighteen months was totally paralysed except for my eyes. Milton Erickson