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| Jackov |
Major Malfuntion with my BikeThe bell seem a bit flat, and lacking a good ring. |
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| cyclingtv |
get a whistle and blow 
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| cardinal guzman |
It's maybe getting a bit rusty or there's some mud under the dome? Is it one of these modern flicky bells that go 'ping' or the more traditional style that go 'ching-ching'? | ||||||||
| redster73 |
A good bell cleaning kit should solve the problem...and finish with Brasso to really get it gleaming | ||||||||
| Jackov |
Yes the modern kind.
It's the flat black kind of bell, the kind Mennonites, or even Amish, might use. There's a couple of sharp narrow turns along the tow-path where a good ding is critical for avoid painful head-ons and a canal dousing. And lets face it, if there are young women around and you have this flat little ping in your bell you won't have any cred with them. |
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| cardinal guzman |
I believe that in these modern times, you can get hooters for your handlebars that you pump up (the volume)? | ||||||||
| MerlinGuy |
Do they have any bells that can break into a cell conversation or an Ipoo'd music player. I am getting really tired of "scaring" all those tuned out yabos. And while we're at it anyone have a solution to those 20 foot long fishing leashes that dog owners like to playout across the entire bike path? | ||||||||
| paperman |
My sister brought me back a lovely bell from Amsterdam  Its going on my track bike.....used for comutting and it soon to get a mad paint job done to it!!!!!
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| chasm |
I find that riding straight at the owner produces a response. They tend to run towards their dogs. |
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| cardinal guzman |
Smoooth moves! Last year I was riding along the towpath (quite sturdy my road bike) when I noticed a couple of hundred quid's worth of roach pole in my immediate path protruding from behind a fat fisherman on the bank. Unsure of legal liability, I slammed the bike sideways, just skidding to a stop parallel to this most ridiculous of fishing rods. The rod's owner leapt up, throwing his rod to the vertical and shouting "I'm sorry" just in time to fully appreciate me saying "No, it's ok" as I fall inexorably to the floor, ineffectualy yet frantically waggling both feet. |
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| CapeRoadie |
For the ipod users, I just wear one myself so that when they get freaked out by me, I can't hear them. The trick is to not look at them either. For the dog leashes, you have to yell really loudly from a ways away, otherwise you have to have a gun and friends in local government. Yipe, yipe, yipe... woof. |
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| Jackov |
"roach poles"
I didn't know those !@#@#%$@#$ things were called. I'm tempted to roll over one with my mt bike. |
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| CapeRoadie |
Wait. What's a "roach pole"? | ||||||||
| cardinal guzman |
http://www.tri-castfishing.co.uk/xrs_2k4_power_margin_pole.html That language thing again 
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| CapeRoadie |
Ah, like "bollocks" versus the "dog's bollocks". One is good, and one is bad. |
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| MerlinGuy |
Somebody has been watch Eddie Izzard. |
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| cardinal guzman |
Roach.
Roach. 
Roach. 
Singe (dans l'arbre) 
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| CapeRoadie |
I am a huge fan, yes. It was Bartali who first told me about Izzard, with that "Deathstar Canteen" bit. |
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| Morstar |
What's a roach Pole?
Isn't that an overseas roach that does plumbing and building jobs cheaper than British born and bred roaches? Gives the Daily Mail something to write about yeah? |
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| Jackov |
I think moisture is at the root of this bell problem. It is on moist dewy mornings that most resonance is lost. | ||||||||