Trivia: Cycle Bells

[Steve Hodgson]

This is a little bit off the mainstream but I was talking to someone about
fitting a bell today and recalled Edinburgh Bikes stocking what they claimed
was a particularly sweet-sounding bell a few years back.

What I recall was a flat metal disk that was 'pinged' - is there such a beast
or did I imagine it?

Cheers,

Steve
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[Jon is Away!]

Steve Hodgson wrote:
> This is a little bit off the mainstream but I was talking to someone about
> fitting a bell today and recalled Edinburgh Bikes stocking what they claimed
> was a particularly sweet-sounding bell a few years back.
>
> What I recall was a flat metal disk that was 'pinged' - is there such a beast
> or did I imagine it?

One possible candidate can be found at:

http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/sogreni.shtml

It's quite pricey, but certainly sweet sounding.

Jon

 

[Phil Barker]

Jon is Away! wrote:
> Steve Hodgson wrote:
>> This is a little bit off the mainstream but I was talking to someone about
>> fitting a bell today and recalled Edinburgh Bikes stocking what they claimed
>> was a particularly sweet-sounding bell a few years back.
>>
>> What I recall was a flat metal disk that was 'pinged' - is there such a beast
>> or did I imagine it?
>
> One possible candidate can be found at:
>
> http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/sogreni.shtml
>
> It's quite pricey, but certainly sweet sounding.
>
Yeah, I think I've seen something very similar in the Edinburgh Bike's
catalogue a year or so back

 

[Steve Hodgson]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:46:51 +0000, Jon is Away! wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

> http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/sogreni.shtml

Wow - that is some seriously expensive stuff! I think that was the one - it
was the reference to a wooden box packed with wood shavings that I recall
seeing.

The mudguards look spectacularly useless.

Cheers,

Steve
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[Tosspot]

Jon is Away! wrote:
> Steve Hodgson wrote:
>
>>This is a little bit off the mainstream but I was talking to someone about
>>fitting a bell today and recalled Edinburgh Bikes stocking what they claimed
>>was a particularly sweet-sounding bell a few years back.
>>
>>What I recall was a flat metal disk that was 'pinged' - is there such a beast
>>or did I imagine it?
>
>
> One possible candidate can be found at:
>
> http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/sogreni.shtml
>
> It's quite pricey, but certainly sweet sounding.

Did like the leather handgrips[1]. Not paying 25 squids for a bloody
bell though.

<peers a bit closer> 75 squids for that light! Christ, I'd want a
dozen virgins running in front waving storm lanterns for that price.
Well, one anyway. Ok, there's market forces to consider....

[1] Anyone use leather handgrips?

 

[David Nutter]

On 2006-02-19, Tosspot <[email protected]> wrote:

><peers a bit closer> 75 squids for that light! Christ, I'd want a
> dozen virgins running in front waving storm lanterns for that price.
> Well, one anyway. Ok, there's market forces to consider....

The 65 quid mudguards (including stays, how generous) got me. Given their
unusual choice of materials, I think there must be about £5,000 worth of
large grain alloy^W^W^W textureplate mudguards-in-potentia lying around my
garage. Just need a roller machine and I shall be rich...

Regards,

-david

 

[Andrew Chadwick]

On 2006-02-19 23:28 +0000, Tosspot wrote:
> Jon is Away! wrote:
>>
>> http://www.kinetics.org.uk/html/sogreni.shtml
>>
>> It's quite pricey, but certainly sweet sounding.
>
> Did like the leather handgrips[1]. Not paying 25 squids for a bloody
> bell though.

25 quid for a ping bell? Shame they'd sold out of the trouser clips;
would've been entertaining to see the price. Straying into audiophile
territory, methinks.

> [1] Anyone use leather handgrips?

Considered, but no. Not in this climate. I settled for some Stella
Azzura stuff - the kind with the stitching in the middle - for the
bike'o'character. If only they did a brown or an army green.

If you want a matching brown, you could always shellac up some cotton
tape.

--
Andrew Chadwick