So there I was, cycling into work this morning along a dark, unlit bit of shared footpath/cyclepath. There was a black dog running about, with it's owner up ahead. Rang my loud ding-a-ling bell. No response. Shouted "Hello". No response. Eventually managed to negotiate my way past the dog, and suggested to the owner that he keeps his dog on a lead. His response? "You should have a bell as well."
Why is it you always think of the right response some time down the road?
I'd really like a *really* loud bell. You know, kind of airzound impact, but bell noise.
A friend had a clockwork doorbell. It was about 7" diameter dome bell on the back of the door. You wound it up by rotating the bell, then there was a catch that released it via a push-rod through the door. It was seriously loud fire-bell sort of volume. I'm sure it could be mounted on a bike. You got about 30 seconds ringing from it, followed by about two minutes sympathetic ringing-in-the-ears if you happened to be in the hallway when someone let it off.
No idea where it came from. It was in a student house in Dundee about 15 years ago.
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So there I was, cycling into work this morning along a dark, unlit bit of shared footpath/cyclepath. There was a black dog running about, with it's owner up ahead. Rang my loud ding-a-ling bell. No response. Shouted "Hello". No response. Eventually managed to negotiate my way past the dog, and suggested to the owner that he keeps his dog on a lead. His response? "You should have a bell as well."
Why is it you always think of the right response some time down the road?
So there I was, cycling into work this morning along a dark, unlit bit of shared footpath/cyclepath. There was a black dog running about, with it's owner up ahead. Rang my loud ding-a-ling bell. No response. Shouted "Hello". No response. Eventually managed to negotiate my way past the dog, and suggested to the owner that he keeps his dog on a lead. His response? "You should have a bell as well."
Why is it you always think of the right response some time down the road?
My response to such is to ring the bell with " Just so you recognise it next time you hear one"
-- Tony
"...has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate..." Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So there I was, cycling into work this morning along a dark, unlit bit of shared footpath/cyclepath. There was a black dog running about, with it's owner up ahead. Rang my loud ding-a-ling bell. No response. Shouted "Hello". No response. Eventually managed to negotiate my way past the dog, and suggested to the owner that he keeps his dog on a lead. His response? "You should have a bell as well."
Why is it you always think of the right response some time down the road?
A friend had a clockwork doorbell. It was about 7" diameter dome bell on the back of the door. You wound it up by rotating the bell, then there was a catch that released it via a push-rod through the door. It was seriously loud fire-bell sort of volume. I'm sure it could be mounted on a bike. You got about 30 seconds ringing from it, followed by about two minutes sympathetic ringing-in-the-ears if you happened to be in the hallway when someone let it off.
That's what I want! I'm contemplating an Airzound instead, only for use under certain conditions!
It was seriously loud fire-bell sort of volume. I'm sure it could be mounted on a bike. You got about 30 seconds ringing from it, followed by about two minutes sympathetic ringing-in-the-ears if you happened to be in the hallway when someone let it off.
Why would someone be cycling in the hallway?
-- Don Whybrow
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So there I was, cycling into work this morning along a dark, unlit bit of shared footpath/cyclepath. There was a black dog running about, with it's owner up ahead. Rang my loud ding-a-ling bell. No response. Shouted "Hello". No response. Eventually managed to negotiate my way past the dog, and suggested to the owner that he keeps his dog on a lead. His response? "You should have a bell as well."
Hard of hearing, pre-occupied, or maybe the usual answer a charge with another one.
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Why is it you always think of the right response some time down the road?
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:54:09 +0000 someone who may be Don Whybrow <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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Why would someone be cycling in the hallway?
A member of my family, who was once a pilot in the RAF, once told me that the great sport was riding motorbikes along the hallways and corridors of the barracks. The aim was to stop before hitting the doors, but the presence of carpets made this a rather difficult task as sometimes the carpets came loose as one was braking.
A member of my family, who was once a pilot in the RAF, once told me that the great sport was riding motorbikes along the hallways and corridors of the barracks. The aim was to stop before hitting the doors, but the presence of carpets made this a rather difficult task as sometimes the carpets came loose as one was braking.
Somehow, the combination of the words 'pilot', 'RAF', 'motorbike' & 'barracks' make the above more than plausible. These components can be combined in many ways to produce interesting results. Not from personal experience, just from knowing a few people who would have it.
Well, just to balance it out, this evening there was a lady walking her dog on a stretchy lead. I rang my bell, she reeled the dog in and said "thank you" at the same time I did.
