Does your bike have a bell or a horn?

Does your bike have a bell or a horn?

  • Bell

    Votes: 24 66.7%
  • Horn

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • Neither

    Votes: 8 22.2%
  • I regularly shout at blind motorists

    Votes: 5 13.9%
  • What are these 'bells and horns' you talk of?

    Votes: 1 2.8%
  • I carry a rolled up newspaper to bop Hookooekoo on the nose

    Votes: 1 2.8%

  • Total voters
    36
A regular bell on one bike, works ok unless folk are jogging with their earphones on.
A Hornit DB140 for around town, although people seem offended when I use it 😄
The traditional bike bell gets a warmer reception imo.
 
My mountain bike does and I have a zeal pump with the bell mounted on it Belgian style . Riding multi user paths its nice to give advanced warning of your passing and stops shitting people up.
 
Never noticed a bike with a horn. Although in NYC a loud air horn on a bike might be more effective than a bell.
 
People usually know I'm just around the corner when they hear the heavy breathing. From pedaling, of course - I'm 300 lbs after all.
 
Bell. A single light 'ping' 20m back so as not to sound too aggressive.

Not that it is usually needed thanks to Hope freehub. A couple of rapid back pedals is usually loud enough to announce theres a bike coming.
 
Riding about 10cm from them ringing and pinging like a lunatic usually works.

I find that howling loudly when you're right behind them usually makes them either run faster or pull their ear plugs out, swiftly turn around to behold the beast, that is I.

Grand tune though
 
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