Richard, for a bike approaching at 20 mph and even slowing to pass you at 10 mph, unless you're constantly swinging your head or wearing a rear view mirror, you can still get surprised. Sparing pedestrians the surprise and shock of our very quiet bikes is just polite - maybe it's just my very quiet bikes. In case of people with dogs, you want to give them as much warning as possible as an unfortunately majority need it to get their animals under control. I bet I haven't offended 3 pedestrians in 5 years, and the one I offended this week was randomly crossing from left to right across my path, was elderly, and I couldn't tell whether he was hard of hearing as he gave me no acknowledgement. The regular pedestrians on my routes all know me by my bell, smile and wave - even those who didn't used to.
On Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 2:04:19 PM UTC-6, Richard Rios wrote: > > Maybe I'm just weird but I do glance back every so often as I walk along. > Do the same on my bike. Keeps me from being surprised at least 80 percent > of the time. Also most bikes are not absolutely silent usually there will > be some kind of noise that alerts me to a bike comming along. Tire buzz, > chain squeek, brake squeel, friends talking and enjoying the ride, dirt or > leaves being ran over. The only problem I find with that is if some one is > playing out racing fantasies and being a bit inconsiderate, then they will > close to fast to react to and it is a bit startling. But hey if having to > pay some attention to what is going on in the environment is to much to ask > ...maybe I'll just go into the mirrors for pedestrians buisness! That way > they can just look straight ahead, with ear buds in, monitoring Fit bit, > smoking a pipe, drinking a cup o' joe, while reading Ann Patchette and > still see what is going on behind them !) > > Richard "spider sense" Rios > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
