Re: [RBW] Anyone use a bike horn? Please recommend.

[Kerry Kunsman]

You may not like them, but an air horn is exactly what I use, and
have for quite a number of years. Mine is the Airzound, by Delta
<http://deltacycle.com/Airzound-Bike-Horn>. I've been a bike
commuter for the past 18 years and find the horn quite handy if I
think someone on a side street is not paying attention, or starts
moving to the right while I'm beside them. I fill it up every couple
of weeks. I don't have to use it much; if you do you may be doing
something wrong. :-)

BTW, I have the horn mounted behind a 'bar tube' type bar bag on my
mustache bars and it's barely noticeable. And I have been able to
tuck the air bottle between the chainstays and rear fender for a
neater installation. You can't do that with a racer, but you might
be able to do that with a Riv, or Rivish bike.

Kerry Kunsman
San Diego, CA


At 07:51 PM 10/15/2012, lungimsam wrote:
>I am looking for something LOUD to grab motorists attention.
>After getting broadsided last week, I am really paranoid about
>waiting traffic not seeing me as they enter roadway when I am coming
>down the main thoroughfare.
>Don't wanna get hit again.
>
>Was wondering what you all use.
>
>I have seen the airhorns, but they take up so much space and ugly up the bike.

[Peter Morgano]

Best horn here in NYC is a big booming voice, everyone here just ignores regular sounding horns and I personally am way too passive agressive for an Airhorn in traffic. Although they do come in handy when you are camping and some curious critters come too close, it is a good way to keep them away for the night with the scare it will put in them.

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[Rex Kerr]

I had an AirZound, but stopped using it after a short time.  I felt that I was using it too much and becoming more aggressive.  I also found, as alluded to by Mike, that there's often not time to deal with the horn, it's better to just be visible and react to the hazard.  IME, If you see it and have time to honk, you also have time to respond.  For the same reason I don't think I've ever used the horn on my car either.

The AirZound sat in my parts box for about 10 years until the hose disintegrated and I threw it out.

Whatever you do, please don't use it on pedestrians!

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Daniel <datadat...@gmail.com> wrote:

I like the Airzound for the same reasons. It's fairly unintrusive to the bike, especially if you have a 3rd waterbottle mount.

 

Daniel

Yorba Linda, CA

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[PATRICK MOORE]

I used the Zounds for a couple of years when I commuted W-E and return
across town on one of ABQ's busiest boulevards (Central from Atrisco
10 miles to a mile or so east of Eubank). I found it as useful as a
car horn: true, if you can honk, you can react, but that leaves out
one big benefit of horns bicycle and automobile, to wit, **to express
your indignation**. And this country is all about free expression,
right? (I assume that one expresses his indignation only when such
expression is reasonable.)

Seriously -- all kidding aside -- I think that a loud blast of horn
may well have a beneficial effect on someone who, cluelessly or simply
by miscalculation, is infringing dangerously on a cyclist's rights.
For example, a motorist about to pull out unsafely from a rider's
right, simply because he or she is unable to "process" the cyclist's
approaching speed and because the driver is simply not used to having
to accomodate cyclists.

That said, I gave up on mine because it was too bulky, flimsy, and
because I kept forgetting to keep the pressure up. It finally decayed
in my parts box.

I did use it once against (the word deliberately chosen) pedestrians:
on the bike path, some adolescent boys ignored my shouts, bell,
screams, all well in advance of our conjunction, continuing to
horseplay across the full width of the path. I finally gave them a
blast and was pleased to see them very quickly wake up and jump to
safety.

[lungimsam]

 

I could not accellerate fast enough, or stop fast enough to get away from the driver's car. All I could do was yell. But I guess she couldn't hear me. Airhorn might have got her attention to make her stop.

 

I am thinking that instead of holding out my right hand towards her with palm out and yelling "Hey, hey, hey"!  I could have just slapped onto the horn and she would have noticed me.

 

Apparantly, she didn't notice me until I landed on her hood.

[Kerry Kunsman]

I've had some requests for pictures of my air horn bottle and hose
installation, so I took a couple of pictures. I hope this clarifies
things a bit. The bikes not a Riv ... but it is Rivish! :-)

Kerry Kunsman
San Diego, CA

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