The bell can be quite offensive in the wrong hands!
Was riding on the Monsal Trail earlier this year, just as covid lockdown was beginning to ease, the weather was good and people were on a cycling/get outdoors high after the daily exercise boom. The trail was pretty busy and we were making good progress as a fit family on bikes, but with the obvious regular slow downs and hold ups at the busiest points. Part way along the trail we began to hear a cyclist catching up quite quickly, accompanied by a near continuous Ping.... Ping..... PING..... PING!
I was wondering what his problem was? We were setting a good pace, but safety first so it wasn't going to be a time trial. As he closed up behind us we approached a particularly busy spot, prams, pets, cyclists, toddlers and pedestrians everywhere in all directions. I was just waiting for him to ping that bell one more time to try and hurry me up or encourage me out of his way. If he had done, he would have needed a shoulder length rubber glove to try and ping it where I was going to stick it!
Fortunately for him he didn't, but as soon as we cleared the congestion he was off again at crazy speed, pinging his bell and piloting his EBIKE at or above the max legal limit as he rushed past the other more sedate trail users......