Originally Posted by
roby
I tend to try to warn people by yelling "passing" very loudly(much louder than a dinky bell). I rarely get acknowledgement that I've been heard, because people either have music on or space out and don't watch what they are doing. I've had to yell at people walking the wrong way down the path facing me, and they still didn't see me until I was very close. I've given up on warning people, unless they are in my way.
I agree, the other night while I was riding I encountered two people walking who had their music so loud that I could hear it as I approached them, as I was a passing them and for a significant distance after I passed them.
Unless I had an airhorn I don't think that they would have heard me. As I do have a bell and I wrung it, and they didn't hear me.