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LittleBigMan

01-19-04, 08:45 PM

My new $18 bike horn is LOUD. At least, to me it is!

On squeeze with my right index finger and BEEEEEP! Like a car horn. In fact, it is a car horn! :D

By golly, I'm having an identity crisis!

prestonjb

01-19-04, 09:38 PM

Check out my bike's horn!

http://www.cyclemobility.org/CMFiles/nightriding.html

Chris L

01-20-04, 01:35 AM

When I want to make a noise on the bike (something I'm finding increasingly useful in Surfers Paradise), I just adjust my brakes so as to make them squeak. Louder than any horn I've ever heard, cheaper, and best of all, I don't have to move my hands as much in a difficult situation to use it!

mike

01-20-04, 03:47 AM

Pete: I think you might remember me telling about the guy I met who had a diesel truck air horn mounted on his bike. He had a rubber hose attached to it that ran along the top tube. When he wanted to blast the horn, he had to suck hard on the tube.

It looked absolutely ridiculous, but when he blew the horn, automobile drivers around him would just about jump out of their skin.

LittleBigMan

01-20-04, 05:58 PM

...when he blew the horn, automobile drivers around him would just about jump out of their skin.
I'm still getting used to this horn. A couple of times, I grabbed my handlebars without thinking and HONNNNNNNK! there goes my horn in the parking lot.
I scared myself silly.

I scared myself, but at least I wasn't embarrassed! No, no, no. I just pretended somebody else did it (I have practice on that, I like to eat beans.)

:)

bentbaggerlen

01-20-04, 06:13 PM

Hmmm you two may be on to something........

Mike said "I think you might remember me telling about the guy I met who had a diesel truck air horn mounted on his bike. He had a rubber hose attached to it that ran along the top tube."

LittleBigMan said "I like to eat beans"

Ummmmm.. no never mind...... That idea stinks....

late

01-20-04, 06:22 PM

Beans, beans, the musical fruit
the more you eat, the more you toot

LittleBigMan

01-20-04, 08:42 PM