f***ing pedestrians!

[Davi]

seeing as there are so many posts about us effin cyclists, I thought I'd go for the "next down on the foodchain"

I'm beginning to wonder if I should have a little speaker fitted to my bike and a fake 50cc scooter noise playing out of it. Or maybe stick with the old fashioned "playing card in the spokes".

People stepping off the pavements is a fairly frequent occurrence, but you can usually spot them a mile off. Yesterday, no such luck. I didn't even have time to brake, I just jumped off the bike and let it hit the stupid moo while I ran across the road to keep myself upright!!

[Justayellowbadge]

Had something similar very recently.

As her first words were 'Oh, my neck' followed by 'Do you have insurance' I'll say no more for now.

[Davi]

now why am I not surprised by that?

[louiebaby]

I've been lucky with a very loud "Oi" or "Heads Up" so far, I just hope that when I eventually run out of luck, they're fat and carrying bags of donuts to land on...

[sleep envy]

Justayellowbadge said:

Had something similar very recently.

As her first words were 'Oh, my neck' followed by 'Do you have insurance' I'll say no more for now.

why, did you clothes line her as you went past on you cycle?

[okgo]

normally I'll dodge as I am pretty handy on the bike. But I will also shout ahead, so far I've not had a problem, had to tell people a few times to look where they're going, with some added swearing.

[AyBee]

Justayellowbadge said:

Had something similar very recently.

As her first words were 'Oh, my neck' followed by 'Do you have insurance' I'll say no more for now.

That is disgraceful! If they're that bothered about being injured, they should look when they cross the road. I get it alot riding through the centre of Bath if I'm heading out the opposite end of town from where I live. It seems nobody uses the mk1 eyeball and just rely on their ears. I've very narrowly missed lots of people but might not be so lucky one day, I'd be more worried about damaging my bike than them though

[mattman]

as a recent new commuter in London and a cyclist I'm amazed at some of the sights I see. Agree some pedestrians take the pee and step right out without looking and should be shot on the spot for that, but the amount of monkeys on bikes who think they can sail through red lights without stopping is amazing - it gives the majority of cyclists who obey the road the bad name

[Mr Will]

I fitted one of these to Mrs Will's bike:



It's rather large, rather loud and rather funny when you have cause to use it in the vicinity of a dosey muppet who hasn't noticed you...

[Justayellowbadge]

Can you get these in an SPD flavour?

[heebeegeetee]

Davi said:

seeing as there are so many posts about us effin cyclists, I thought I'd go for the "next down on the foodchain"

I'm beginning to wonder if I should have a little speaker fitted to my bike and a fake 50cc scooter noise playing out of it. Or maybe stick with the old fashioned "playing card in the spokes".

People stepping off the pavements is a fairly frequent occurrence, but you can usually spot them a mile off. Yesterday, no such luck. I didn't even have time to brake, I just jumped off the bike and let it hit the stupid moo while I ran across the road to keep myself upright!!

When mountain biking i used to have an off-road bell . Brilliant it was, a real rambler-scrambler. Difference was was that people liked the sound of the bell and moved aside with a smile.

A nice ting-ting! as you go can make all the difference to your day.

[snotrag]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=air+zound&ie=...fficial&client=firefox-a

Problem solved. these things are really good fun, and great for commuters.

[ewenm]

AyBee said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Had something similar very recently.

As her first words were 'Oh, my neck' followed by 'Do you have insurance' I'll say no more for now.

That is disgraceful! If they're that bothered about being injured, they should look when they cross the road. I get it alot riding through the centre of Bath if I'm heading out the opposite end of town from where I live. It seems nobody uses the mk1 eyeball and just rely on their ears. I've very narrowly missed lots of people but might not be so lucky one day, I'd be more worried about damaging my bike than them though

Tourists in Bath are very unpredictable - random direction changes, stopping and staring at things, general lack of awareness Makes the riding more interesting though.

[scubadude]

You need a bell, people hear bell and think Bike, if they hear a horn they expect a car (IME)

Bell's aren't necessarily cool I know but they work.

[Mr Will]

scubadude said:

You need a bell, people hear bell and think Bike, if they hear a horn they expect a car (IME)

Bell's aren't necessarily cool I know but they work.

and they are scared of cars...

That's what makes it so funny!

[sleep envy]

whistles work well

[mackie1]

Hope hubs are loud enough to warn people of your presence.

[pdV6]

mackie1 said:

Hope hubs are loud enough to warn people of your presence.

I spooked a gaggle of teenagers the other night on my way back from a night ride; they were spread across an unmade & unlit road around a blind bend. I was whizzing down the tarmacced hill and stopped pedalling to hop the transition to the unmade surface & the resulting racket from the hub was enough to alert the kids and send them scattering into the hedges.

Which was quite lucky (mostly for them) as it turns out...

[Gnarlybluesurf]

snotrag said:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=air+zound&ie=...fficial&client=firefox-a

Problem solved. these things are really good fun, and great for commuters.

+1

Complain no longer just buy one of these, so much fun and I have honestly made HGV drivers jump in their seat with a full blast...

As said above... Problem solved.