Mastodawn

So #BikeTooter seems very excited by this noise-cancelling headphone negating bell, but I don't get it. Pedestrians have priority. End of. They don't need to hear you. Many can't hear you even if they wanted to. Thinking that dinging a bell comes with an expectation of a clear run is no different to drivers honking a horn and expecting cyclists to get out the road. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

@pete These things tend to get picked up by social media and people post about them. Doesn't mean people are necessarily subscribe to the idea that pedestrians can be run over.

For me, I'm in the market for a bell or horn anyway so I'd rather have one that doesn't get blocked by ANC. Also, pedestrians are not the only ones using headphones... Drivers and other cyclists do, sadly.

My use case is Albania where it is much more of a circus than any urban area I've cycled in before.