Heads Up!
I am tired of the ever increasing number of so-called “bike safety” products. Especially when everyday I share the road with drivers like this. There needs to be a spray for them.
A product that would give drivers some perspective.
I can follow all the road rules, pay attention, wear bright colors, lights and shiny things while riding my bike. But I’m not the one operating heavy machinery on a public way. Let’s recognize the real problem.
Sheer genius!
the closest thing I’ve found to ‘heads up’ spray is an AirZound horn….lights and bright clothes are fine and all, but a loud airhorn works pretty well on distracted drivers and is a lot more civil than screaming at the top of ones lungs.
I had an AirZound for a while, and one day I accidentally hit it instead of my polite little bell when approaching a jogger. When it broke (the old ones were not durable against UV) I didn’t replace it, because I decided that whole “I will blow a loud horn” was car-“think” of the worst kind — rather than do something that will certainly mitigate the coming risk (step on brakes) instead I will blow my horn to indicate that there is a problem but IT’S NOT MY PROBLEM IT’S YOUR FAULT YOU IDIOT!!!!!! and of course the “idiot” will hear that horn in a timely fashion (windows up, stereo on) and of course they will understand that it is directed at them and of course they will immediately understand the nature of the problem and what they should do to correct it, and all of this far faster and with greater certainty than the horn-blower could use his brakes.
In short, horns are not about actual safety. They are a way of yelling at people, which is rude (I did see a horn used for safety once, when I was a child, when a semi-dump-trailer hauling rocks lost its brakes and was headed for an intersection. Once, in 50+ years.)
So that’s why I don’t think an AirZound is such a great idea. In an obnoxiousness contest, a bike will never be able to beat a car, so we might as well not even play that game.
Well said. I was in the market for more horn (I already have more lights and they all trigger epileptic fits), but you may be right. Horns are so carish.
Can I be a scofflaw and use a whistle?
LMOA…thank you for finding just the right way to word that…i get so mad I lose grasp of the english language and go into “primate” mode