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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
For whatever reason, I just feel like I'm being annoying. Especially on the busy paths by downtown.
I'm all "ding! ding! ... ding! .... ... ding! ding!" and I wonder if everyone is thinking "Shut up already!"
I'm bell shy. I have to fight through it with every ding.
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It does run against the car horn culture in North America, where horns are only honked as a sign of extreme displeasure. But in most of the world, horns are simply a way of communicating 'heads up - coming through' to everyone else on the road.
As more people cycle and the cycle paths become increasingly congested, we're going to have to get used to treating our bike horns the way drivers in Delhi and Istanbul treat their car horns. And if people find it irritating, well, it's not as irritating as being suddenly sprawled on the pavement with a sprained wrist. More pedestrians are injured every year from collisions with cyclists than cyclists injured from collisions with cars.