http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: altercation - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:58:36 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=3#post-290384 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:35:07 +0000 Rosie 290384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Canning Street, which is narrow. Non-black cab style taxi is stopped right across it. Cyclist passing gave him a good thump on the bonnet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=3#post-289123 Sat, 18 Aug 2018 21:11:11 +0000 Rosie 289123@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm in a bus going up The Mound.<br /> Long horn from the bus driver. Simultaneously shouting from a parallel cyclist. Uniting against a pair of tourists standing in the bike lane taking photies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=3#post-256285 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:54:05 +0000 Greenroofer 256285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo - niche already occupied: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000EEJAM6" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000EEJAM6</a></p> <p>...best of all it's made by ACME, and we all know how well their stuff worked for Mr Coyote. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=3#post-256276 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:06:07 +0000 dessert rat 256276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>contrary to popular myth, a duck's quack does echo.</p> <p>FACT! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256275 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 17:11:15 +0000 gembo 256275@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At the Canuck, I sometimes say wack wack to the duckies at Harrison gdns. But what you need is a hunter's quacker. Authentic duck sound even to ducks? Definite niche in the market. You would wear it round your neck and quack away on the canal towpath getting much attention from humans, canines and duckies. But maybe no market in the niche? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256273 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 16:39:22 +0000 the canuck 256273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i heard some research last month, that the sound which is best at getting people's attention without offending or frightening them is a duck's quack.</p> <p>does anyone make a quacking bike bell? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256190 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:05:24 +0000 Cyclingmollie 256190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver - yes, like when you nearly get hospitalised by a driver then they go mental because you swore at them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256164 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 10:04:43 +0000 crowriver 256164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"This is what I love about Britain, we can create a class system out of anything - even bike bell ringing etiquette."</p> <p>I tend to think it's rather the other way round: the class system dictates the appropriateness of the etiquette. It is when there is a mismatch between appropriate etiquette that we get conflict, as it reveals the mismatch between the classes, and by inference, the power relations between them.</p> <p>@Dave, I'm using that Captain Commuter moniker - definitely describes a type of "watch out, I'm in a hurry" type... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256145 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:05:19 +0000 Dave 256145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've not been on the canal so much of late but don't recall any bum tinkling either. Maybe because I'm on the road bike so even faster or something?</p> <p>Overgrown greenery is the main moaning point these days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256117 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:19:07 +0000 Cyclingmollie 256117@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes Rosie, I think I am a bum tinkler - for the best of reasons of course, following people who don't have bells. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256116 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:10:42 +0000 Rosie 256116@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Cyclingmollie I'm the sudden braker champion, I'm afraid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256114 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:40:06 +0000 Cyclingmollie 256114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How did I miss this thread first time round? Bum tinklers lol. We could also have crabbity freewheel buzzers, gopro gotchas, irksome wobblers and sudden brakers. Salmon and scalpers already exist. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256113 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:19:37 +0000 Dave 256113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd forgotten all about this thread! Looks like I never did post a bum tinkler video for WC. Sadly I don't have a spare camera to mount rearward these days :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-256111 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:31:38 +0000 Rosie 256111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Altercation - this morning. Cyclist in black and blue lycra in ASL on Harrison Road at the Harrison Road/Slateford Road junction. Yelling blue murder at a car which had its nose halfway along the ASL. Didn't see what evil the car (sorry car driver) had done. Was it mere territorial infringement? Or actual close-to-you menace? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233980 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:41:18 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 233980@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>It might be hard to define bum tinkling, but I know it when I see it :) </em>"</p> <p>I'm assuming we will too when we see the video... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233971 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:35:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 233971@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Really? So you don't have to have that insanely loud wii-wii-wii-wii sound?</em></p> <p>So the guy told me. Showed me a few other noises. Seemed to work like phone ring-tones. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233969 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:31:37 +0000 Arellcat 233969@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Horn-It that can play very loud, very real MP3 sound files</em></p> <p>Really? So you don't have to have that insanely loud wii-wii-wii-wii sound?</p> <p>I have no idea what bum tinkling is. Is it that noise you get when you're wearing gloves and you can't ping the pinger properly? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233967 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:55:18 +0000 Dave 233967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It might be hard to define bum tinkling, but I know it when I see it :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233939 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:43:47 +0000 chdot 233939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"This extra weight maybe explains my next to the broom wagon finishes?"</p> <p>More likely all those apple pies... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233938 Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:34:10 +0000 gembo 233938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love bells so much I have left them on my summer and winter road bikes. Causes mirth in the peloton if a wee kid is waving at us and I give them a friendly ting. Obviously everyone else has removed theirs. This extra weight maybe explains my next to the broom wagon finishes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233925 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:55:35 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 233925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>What I don't understand from this story is how you can tell that he is ringing his bell at you rather than warning people coming in the other direction the there are two bikes coming through the bridge.</em>"</p> <p>#you're so vain, you probably think this ting is about you#</p> <p>Intrigued to see the video of aggressive directed tinging. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233923 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:47:33 +0000 stiltskin 233923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>If someone wants to go faster than me that's just fine. Instead what seems to happen is that I am much (much) faster but when it comes to the obstacles I go a lot more carefully than the two-tings-no-brakes brigade. Hence the bum tinkling opportunity for the odd Captain Commuter.</em><br /> What I don't understand from this story is how you can tell that he is ringing his bell at you rather than warning people coming in the other direction the there are two bikes coming through the bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233888 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:51:27 +0000 neddie 233888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nearly had a head-on, on a straight bit of the towpath this morning.</p> <p>One of those bum-tinger* racing turnips who thought is was fine to follow the cyclist in front and continue his overtake of a pedestrian into oncoming traffic (me).</p> <p>Full drogue chutes deployed etc. </p> <p>*Although he didn't actually ting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233886 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:55:38 +0000 Frenchy 233886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>My view is that there are more polite, sonorous, jolly bells than aggressive.</p> <p>Some were mathematicians, some were carpenters' wives</em></p> <p>Bells, bell***s and belles? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233881 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:18:44 +0000 stiltskin 233881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My favorite bell anecdote. NEPN Canonmills.<br /> 1st woman pedestrian. 'Thanks very much for letting us know you were there. So many cyclists just shoot straight past us'.<br /> 50 yards later: 2nd male pedestrian 'Ting ting yerself pal' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233876 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:28:32 +0000 gembo 233876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My view is that there are more polite, sonorous, jolly bells than aggressive. </p> <p>Some were mathematicians, some were carpenters' wives </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233869 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:36:11 +0000 steveo 233869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm with Dave here the aggressive bell brigade on the canal are seriously annoying however your trying to get by. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233868 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:27:45 +0000 Morningsider 233868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is what I love about Britain, we can create a class system out of anything - even bike bell ringing etiquette.</p> <p>Hell mend anyone getting above their station though - CCTV will be deployed! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233867 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:26:02 +0000 nobrakes 233867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>the two-tings-no-brakes brigade</em>"</p> <p>I feel I am being unfairly tarred here :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17023&page=2#post-233859 Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:37:51 +0000 Dave 233859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Just so I've got this right....</p> <p>You don't speed up, or move to one side when someone wants to go faster than you.</p> <p>You deliberately stop to force them to stop at the most awkward bit of the path for traffic coming either way.</p> <p>You then speed up to faster then the speed he wanted you to go at?</p> <p>And the 'bum tinkler' winds you up?</em></p> <p>If someone wants to go faster than me that's just fine. Instead what seems to happen is that I am much (much) faster but when it comes to the obstacles I go a lot more carefully than the two-tings-no-brakes brigade. Hence the bum tinkling opportunity for the odd Captain Commuter.</p> <p>I have a rear-facing camera these days. I'll try to remember if I get a good example to download the footage. </p>