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Re: Bells horns, etc: msg#00142

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Subject: Re: Bells horns, etc



I use an Air Zound - with a bit of practice you can give a softer toot
or a loud Blast...should the toot not have the desired effect.
Rob
Adelaide
Australia

> -----Original Message-----
>From: trikes-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:trikes-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Kate Peterson
>Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:44 AM
>To: trikes@xxxxxxxxx
>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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