Trivia: Cycle Bells

Steve Hodgson said:

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

Jon is Away! said:

Steve Hodgson said:

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

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

Quoted message said:

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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Jon is Away! said:

Steve Hodgson said:

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?

Tosspot said:

<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

Tosspot said:

Jon is Away! said:

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.

Quoted message said:

[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.

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Andrew Chadwick