The Hornit bike horn

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[PpPete]

If they made one that sounded a low "horn" note (like an approaching HGV) I'd be more tempted.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Oh My Gaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwdddddddddddd!

So now along with being expected to look like an alien life form I have the opportunity to sound like one.

Not for me until it sounds like a 'proper' horn rather than a space invaders machine sound effect. (and even then I'd argue not to be used around pedestrians)

 

[benb]

Surely they should do one with the Dixie horn from Dukes of Hazzard?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Or with a download facility to allow you to play your favourite choonz/ringtone at 130dB

 

[benb]

Or with a download facility to allow you to play your favourite choonz/ringtone at 130dB

Such as the last 30 seconds of Killing in the Name, by Rage Against the Machine?

 

[potsy]

Certainly effective looking at the vid, but wouldn't want that noise it drove me mad after the first go

 

[Andy Johns]

Dukes of Hazzard would be awesome - you'd press it all the time!...just googled Hornit and found this review on BikeRadar - http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/just-in-hornit-db140-bike-horn-32821

 

[Dan B]

Dukes of Hazzard would be awesome - you'd press it all the time!...just googled Hornit and found this review on BikeRadar - http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/just-in-hornit-db140-bike-horn-32821

80% of the uses in the video on that page seem to be about buzzing pedestrians when the rider could quite easily have taken a path to go around them. And overtaking a bus that was indicating to pull out?

I'd buy a loud bike horn (for occasional use only) if it sounded like a car horn, but even the airzound is shrill to my ears - and this thing is more like a parakeet at a karaoke night

 

[mickle]

Video shows it being used on small children crossing a cycle path. Perhaps ringing a ding-a-ling bell or simply slowing the **** down might have been more civilised

 

[ufkacbln]

.......... (and even then I'd argue not to be used around pedestrians)

But, the "funky pedestrian" is part of the fun of an AirZound!

 

[Cush]

I realy want one of these but I will have to wait and get it at the same time as I get my new bike in May or June (I want to sound it off at all the mobile phone users in cars and vans and the double yellow line parkers)

 

[growingvegetables]

Stupid sound - all it will do is have everybody around you reach for the phone in their pocket!

 

[Holdsworth]

I'd much prefer it if the noise was more like what you get from a car or bike horn, at the moment it sounds more liek a rape alarm than anything else.

I'll stick to my Airzound for the time being, although I do like the compactness of this new horn compared to AZ I just couldn't bear the sound it makes for everyday use.

 

[Cush]

It is the size of it that appeals to me. The sound will not put me off but it may alert the peds wandering all over a shared cycle lane and I had thought of getting an AZ but was put off by the size.