Re: Bells horns, etc

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Quan Pham wrote:
> I would yell "WIDE LOAD" but they would not know if I was referring to my 
> trike or my rear end.

You could ring multiple bells so they think it is several people
passing?

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>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         trikes-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:trikes-bounces@xxxxxxxxx]  On 
> Behalf Of Kate Peterson
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:44 AM
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> Subject:      [trikes] Bells horns, etc
> 
> Yesterday we were riding on the bike trail on our
> tandem Greenspeed (wonderful!).  However, just yelling
> "on your left" didn't seem adequate.  People move over
> enough for an upright to get buy, but didn't pay
> attention to how big we were.  I don't seem to have
> this problem on my single trike, maybe because I can't
> go near as fast as we can together on the tandem. 
> Anyway I was thinking what I needed was a bell or horn
> that gave people a sense of our size.  An airhorn
> seems overkill on a bike path, anyone else have an
> idea.  
> 
> Also our tandem breaks into two pieces for transport
> (fits in my Element with no problem) but that means
> releasing the front chain.  We haven't found a good
> way to keep this chain "wrapped up" so it doesn't fall
> all over and get everything dirty.  Before I start
> trying to make something to keep this in place, I
> thought I'd see if someone else had figured out a way.
> 
> Kathy in Cincinnati

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