Well done on finding a bell that works with older folk. I have a spur bell which is a bit too high pitched and a Alison bell which is loud but probably too low pitched, There’s an older woman I pass most mornings I call Curly (she has curly hair and two poodles), she used to get cross I wasn’t using my bell but then I gave her a demonstration. She realised she couldn’t hear and I now just shout ding dong, we have become friends!
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Well done on finding a bell that works with older folk. I have a spur bell which is a bit too high pitched and a Alison bell which is loud but probably too low pitched, There’s an older woman I pass most mornings I call Curly (she has curly hair and two poodles), she used to get cross I wasn’t using my bell but then I gave her a demonstration. She realised she couldn’t hear and I now just shout ding dong, we have become friends!
Gillstay
Veteran
Its more for the dog as it is a hearing one and it reacts and alerts her early, rather than me surprising either one of them which always feels mean. I ended up with a chat after one lady said I should use my bell and then I pointed out some folk don't like it and she was amazed.
Why I do not know.
Why I do not know.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I had one walker on the Rochdale canal towpath get extremely aggressive with me, basically informing me (about 10 cm from my face) that if I ever dared to ring a bell at him again, he would rip it off my bike and ram it up my a**e!!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
He clearly interpreted it as "Get out of my effing way NOW, scumbag" rather than "Excuse me please, kind sir"!I had one walker on the Rochdale canal towpath get extremely aggressive with me, basically informing me (about 10 cm from my face) that if I ever dared to ring a bell at him again, he would rip it off my bike and ram it up my a**e!!
Tom B
Guru
- Location
- Lancashire
I imagined you prowling the streets looking for the deaf lady to test the bell on.
I had one walker on the Rochdale canal towpath get extremely aggressive with me, basically informing me (about 10 cm from my face) that if I ever dared to ring a bell at him again, he would rip it off my bike and ram it up my a**e!!
NFR... I think that's how a significant number of people converse on a daily basis.
A few weeks ago I was descending a zigzag slalom rampy behind a couple of walkers, he'd seen me at the top and I was in no rush and content to follow so nodded to him to carry on. Almost at the bottom and 30secs later the female had a moment of situational awareness and almost jumped out of her skin and shouted "use your bloody bell". The bloke retorted before I could even think. "he's got two hands and two brakes what do you want him to ring his bell with you daft bint" I think that passes for a loving matrimonial discussion with some folks.
When I was a child I remember my father giving me a thing called a MegaBlaster it was a PP3 battery powered klaxon in a 4" x 4" box that strapped to the bike and was rather loud and anti social.
While the bike industry has done it's thing and made a number of overpriced, over complicated bells I'm surprised I haven't seen a coin cell operated digital bell for £150
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I experienced an even more extreme response from one startled pedestrian...
I once encountered a couple walking along a steep country lane in front of me. I had slowed down and was well back when I called out to them. The woman freaked out completely, ran straight across the road, and faceplanted on a high roadside wall!
