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Sunday, 2nd May 2004
The Return of the Bicycle Bell
I wondered why I’ve been hearing other cyclists dinging bells lately but now I find that from 1st May all new bicycles sold in the UK have to be fitted with a bell. Fortunately, there is nothing in the law which says that the bell has to remain on the bike.
Bicycle bells have to be one the silliest inventions ever. If I want someone to be aware that I’m around I just say ‘Beep, beep!’ in a friendly voice. No one has ever been offended by this. Some people even giggle. When I last had a bell, over 20 years ago, people appeared to take it as an aggressive ‘Get out of my way!’ signal which is one reason I got rid of the damned thing.
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Since moving the site to a new server Scribblings is not as easy to find your way around as it used to be. It used to depend on a script and a database on the server but is currently served as ‘flat html’.
I have some ideas about how to make it a bit easier but they depend on writing another script. I hope to get around to it ‘eventually’.
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