On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:01:50 -0600, Mike Schwab <
[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have two on two bicycles called AirZound from Delta Cycles. Has a over thick 16 oz bottle that
>goes in a bottle cage, hooked up with aquarium air pump hose to a horn that mounts on your bicycle.
>Runs about US$30. I got mine from a local bicycle shop. Sounds like a semi~!
Sounds like a keeper!
Forget the 'ya'll pardon me ma'am, may I pass through your party, kind Sir's. I've tried that for 4
months. Now, I want people to scatter when they even -think- I'm coming. ;-)
Jeeze, I'm only 235lbs of ex-bodybuilder, and must look like a damn Juggernaut, even at 10mph. Why
they don't scatter already, I don't understand. But after tomorrow, I assure you, they -will-
scatter. And they will speak in hushed tones as I pass. ;-)
Though I say this in partial jest, let them pee their pants, b/c I'm not going to risk hitting
anyone with the demure attitude, henceforth. At least scaring the **** outta the few recalcitrant
pedestrians won't get you a lawsuit. <g>
Yesterday a guy was jogging towards me with his unleashed dog ahead of him. So that's illegal, no
problem - when I passed the dog, all was fine. However apparently his dog turned and started to
chase me, because right as I got up to the owner, he shouts out at full volume "Stop, Rover, Stop!".
Of course this shout was right into my good left ear and I almost jumped off the bike, in full
startle. Did Rover stop? Of course not. It's a myth perpetuated by dog owners that they have any
control over their dogs whatsoever, when the urge to chase hits.
Last weekend two ladies had an unleashed dog that was running up and barking at people, and barked
at me, and I was standing still at the bridge on the trail. I told them, nicely 'you need to leash
your dog'. They shout back 'today's not "Leash day"'. I said 'Lady every day is leash day if your
dog is not under control, moron.' OK, I didn't say moron. One of them, flustered for words, hollars
back, 'well, you're not allowed to ride bikes on this trail'. WTF? It's a freaking bike trail, you
idiot, I thought, but let it go. Hell, it's listed as such on the City's public works page.
I told my wife the next time we're walking the trail and the unleashed dog runs up to me, I'm going
to wait until the owner comes near and then run up to him and loudly go "ROWR-ROWR-ROWR", in my best
"doggie imitation" voice, right in his face and see how he likes it. After all their dogs do it to
everyone else on the trail.
(To the 80-90% of folks on the trail with whom I co-exist peacefully, we're still good.)
-B
>
>Badger South wrote: <snip:
>>
>> To tell the truth, I joked before about getting an air horn like they have at football games. I'm
>> going on tomorrow and get one and I'm taping it to my handlebars. If there's no movement at the
>> second 'Bike!', I'm blasting the horn. Then I'm blasting it again as I pass the jokers. Sorry if
>> this isn't good for bike/pedestrian relations. I've had it.
>>
>> -B