On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:02:52 +0000 (UTC), David Nutter <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeremy Parker <
[email protected]> said:
>>> Just acquired a 12 speed racer (FAlcon) in decent nick - looks quite new. Brake blocks also look
>>> new-ish, not much wear.
>>>
>>> Front isnt too bad but back brakes make a deafening squeal [...]
>>
>> Don't ever change it - that's the only noise that gets pedestrians to pay attention.
>
> Mmm, that reminds me. Does anyone have any suggestions for bells and hooters suitable for drop bar
> bikes with already crammed handlebar tops (light, computer, extra reflector etc)? Ideally this
> would be something that screwed in place of a bar-end cap but I'm open to other suggestions.
There's a pingy bell made by Mirrycle that can be mounted to bar ends:
<http://www.mirrycle.com/barend.htm>. Biketrax in Edinburgh seem to be flogging them in their online
sale:
http://www.biketrax.co.uk/infopage/homepage/6ce098364b1876559888432ac47a11a2/
> Currently my method of warning errant pedestrians of my approach is something like "Oi, you!"
> (politely paraphrased) which isn't massively effective.
Yelling or sounding something that obviously sounds like a bike bell is probably best, at low speed.
Horns don't exactly say "bike", and I'm not sure ping-bells are much good either.
> Note that the frame doesn't have mountings for anything at all, not even mudguard eyes or a bottle
> cage so battery powered horns are probably out.
The Air Zound with the bottle strapped somewhere convenient, if there's one left. Should get a ped's
attention, but dim ones might just stop in your way to gawp at you while their brain catches up.
Though I wonder if something odd, hacky and similarly loud could be put together using an old inner
tube threaded through the frame, perhaps in the handlebars themselves with the valve sticking out of
one end cap and a horn bit out of the other. I don't know how much air can be got into the Zound or
how many blasts can be got out of it, unfortunately.
--
Andrew Chadwick <Secure beneath the watchful eyes