(08-07-2016, 10:26 AM)chutten Wrote: ding...ding <- my first courtesy ring. Twice so the pedestrian knows that I'm getting closer, and that the solitary ding wasn't a figment of their imagination
I love this - that's actually really brilliant. Two dings because then it gives a vector. I was always just doing a single ding - but that's only defining a point in space, with no heading, so it's far less helpful!
You're an engineer too, aren't you, Chutten?
I'm going to have to start doing this.
(08-07-2016, 10:26 AM)chutten Wrote: DINGADINGADING <- my second ring. Standard bell ring. It startles _me_, so I try my best to not have to use it.
I have one of those "single hammer" bells that I can choose the intensity of the tone by how hard I pull back the hammer. I always feel a bit... smug... when I pull the hammer back alllllll the way, and make a nice, loud, DING! But yeah, I only reserve "angry DING" for second (or third, or fourth) warnings/alerts. Usually by that point I'm already riding on the grass (or have had to jump off my bike), anyway.
...I really want to get a little speaker box that quacks (Mallard, of course).