Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
When I'm winter biking with studded tires on dry pavement, the tires make a "rice crispies with milk poured in" sound, I wish I could find a device that would make a similar low level pleasant sound so that people paying attention to their hearing could hear me coming up behind them, without any of the issues involved with saying on your left of ringing a bell.
In his book
Just Ride, Grant Petersen suggests sewing jungle bells on a loop strap and hanging it on the handlebars. It will ring passively most of the time. When you actively jiggle it, it will ring louder. I like the idea and have bought the supplies to make this but haven't gotten around to it yet. I have a bike with a Chinese urban bell on it, and it works that way.