Brriing - Brriing bell for Brompton ?

[rogerzilla]

The Knog Oi is notorious for failing after a short time when the striker spring gives up the ghost. Read the reviews on Amazon etc. It costs about £20 but it's crapola.

(Updated) The new Luxe model looks to have addressed the durability problem but is far heavier and costs more - and Knog still sell the original type, so beware.

 

[ExBrit]

Spurcycle. The original, not a cheap copy. Expensive but worth it. https://www.spurcycle.com/ Not bring-bring but louder and friendlier than any other bell I know.

Thanks for that link. I just bought one of their Frankenbells. I love the idea of rescuing something from the bin and making a charitable donation at the same time. I hope it has plenty of "character" when it arrives.

 

[tinywheels]

I find a whistle focuses their minds,clears the way a treat when used forcibly.

 

[steveindenmark]

Do not get a horn. It is just overkill and annoys everyone.

 

[berlinonaut]

The Knog Oi is notorious for failing after a short time when the striker spring gives up the ghost. Read the reviews on Amazon etc. It costs about £20 but it's crapola.

I supported their Kickstarter campaign for the Oi back in the days. The bell is complete crap. Nice to look at, but that is the only positive thing to say. As a bell it is completly useless. A "sound" that is unnoticable (as you will notice in the sound comparison I linked earlier), and that's just one of many disappointments with that bell. Avoid.

 

[berlinonaut]

I just bought one of their Frankenbells.

Please report back how you like it!

 

[rogerzilla]

I misread that as "Do not get the horn. It is just overkill and annoys everyone".

 

[tyred]

I'm very happy with the large 3" diameter traditional ding doing bell I bought in Halford earlier in the year. Loud enough to wake up the dead and seems to be well made. I can't remember the exact price but I thought it cheap enough for a decent product.

 

[berlinonaut]

Btw. my second best choice after the spurcycle and coming into play as a (much) lower budget solution is the Mounty Charly. It is very loud and works very well. I still do like the spurcycle better but the Mounty is close in terms of effect at a fraction of the cost and I do use it on a couple of bikes. Did however not use it on a Brompton yet as they have all been spurcycled. https://www.kurbelix.de/mounty-fahrradklingel-charly-super-laut-alu-schwarz.

 

[ExBrit]

Do not get a horn. It is just overkill and annoys everyone.

Plus it makes you sound like a clown, and who needs that when we look so cool on our Brommies

 

[ExBrit]

Please report back how you like it!

Well I like the bell but the mount is rubbish. It just flops around on my 7/8" Brommie bars and even on my road bike with a 1" bar it won't stay in place. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[roley poley]

Oh my the Pinger thumb clapper thingy has just disappeared off my kong oi !!..so it's back to coughing ,whistling and voice on my tow path pedestrian avoidance tactics ..jinx or what

 

[Kell]

I have to say that I missed having a bell last weekend as I went for a ride with the missus along a towpath. My MTB has hope hubs which have a notoriously loud freewheel. So I tended to just stop pedalling as I got nearer and the ultra loud "tick-tick-tick" mostly did the trick.

However, a bell would be better so thanks to @berlinonaut for the link to the Mounty Charly - ordered a couple. Fancied the Frankenbell, but couldn't justify that price.

 

[tyred]

Since Covid came along, I find that a good faked coughing fit scatters pedestrians

 

[rogerzilla]

I have to say that I missed having a bell last weekend as I went for a ride with the missus along a towpath. My MTB has hope hubs which have a notoriously loud freewheel. So I tended to just stop pedalling as I got nearer and the ultra loud "tick-tick-tick" mostly did the trick.

Now there's an idea. Get a screw-on freewheel hub and space it to Brompton width. Add a White Industries singlespeed freewheel (expensively noisy) and voilà! The only drawback is that the minimum tooth count is 16T, so you'd want a 58T chainring.