Guyincognito76
Senior Member
- Location
- Llandudno, North Wales
Right, I've had enough of this.
I don't have a bell, and I'm not about to fit one either. Nowhere does it say that I need a bell, and an audible greeting is a suitable alternative.
If confronted by pedestrians walking two, or more abreast, I will slow, cheerfully say, 'hi', wait for someone to turn around and politely ask if I can, 'squeeze through'. I will, at least once, per ride (and I'm not exaggerating) hear complaints at the lack of a bell. What do these people want?!
Last week, I had to 'shout' three times to get some old-timer's attention who repeated the mantra in this post's title. Like the deaf, old coot would have heard me 'ting, tinging' behind him! I could, of course, get one of those airhorns and leave a string of heart attack victims all across North Wales.
As an aside why are pedestrians drawn to brightly coloured cycle strips, like moths to a light, on shared paths? In Rhyl (shudder) there's a thirty foot wide promanade, with a three foot wide pink cycle path painted down the middle of it, and where does everybody walk? Down the pink strip, of course they do!
I don't have a bell, and I'm not about to fit one either. Nowhere does it say that I need a bell, and an audible greeting is a suitable alternative.
If confronted by pedestrians walking two, or more abreast, I will slow, cheerfully say, 'hi', wait for someone to turn around and politely ask if I can, 'squeeze through'. I will, at least once, per ride (and I'm not exaggerating) hear complaints at the lack of a bell. What do these people want?!
Last week, I had to 'shout' three times to get some old-timer's attention who repeated the mantra in this post's title. Like the deaf, old coot would have heard me 'ting, tinging' behind him! I could, of course, get one of those airhorns and leave a string of heart attack victims all across North Wales.
As an aside why are pedestrians drawn to brightly coloured cycle strips, like moths to a light, on shared paths? In Rhyl (shudder) there's a thirty foot wide promanade, with a three foot wide pink cycle path painted down the middle of it, and where does everybody walk? Down the pink strip, of course they do!