[Closed] What to shout at pedestrians?

Look out! tends to work for me - but be loud!

Living in a city with a lot or tourists this can be a real issue. Ride a long way from the kerb when passing pedestrians

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

seems to work.

or a proper bell - these are surprisingly effective, actually.

TBH hadn't even considered a bell, was thinking more along the lines of an air horn!

Air horn?

I have a bell but when the pedestrian tries to step infront of you you need something stronger. The trouble with shouting "watch" is that they need to think about what is happening " Look out" is more obvious.

I found FFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Was supprisingly effective at generating appologies.

I don't shout anything as I don't want to look like a complete and utter tool.

MOVE YOU **** normally works for me, unless they have iMuffs in, in which case i simply wheel tap their head as I bunnyhop/soar gracefuly over them
😉

Freewheel with Hope 2 rear hub... If they don't hear you, they are deaf.

Can you get a decent horn these days? (speak as an over-40)

[i]I don't want to look like a complete and utter tool. [/i]

wearing a pedestrian because you kept schtum isn't the coolest of looks, though.

I tend to slow down or be able to judge what people will do. When passing stationary cars in jams I also slow right down if passing a bus etc.

If I'm on the trail I slow RIGHT DOWN or cough politely.

Sorry, its not a troll just don't see the point.

cynic-al - Member
Can you get a decent horn these days? (speak as an over-40)

i think there are drugs for that.

Back on topic, I always find a loud "It's a ****ing road" as you pass surprisingly effective.

On trails or bike paths a firm but polite 'coming through' usually does the trick.

Alternatively one of these:

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But I'm waiting for a ti version to come out.

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LOOOKKK!!! seems to be working for me at the moment.
Trying to articulate anything just seems to end up with me turning bright red and covered in spittle.

Sometimes just yell "ding ding" at people. OR when I really need to get attention, something rude that will get edited out by the filter here. Begins with C.

"ding ding"

Racist!

I tend to slow down or be able to judge what people will do. When passing stationary cars in jams I also slow right down if passing a bus etc.

So yesterday I was cycling along Sauchiehall Street as I got to the end and turned right about ten pedestrians were crossing the road against the "red man" should I have just slowed right down and let them cross?

Maybe your right but having ran a pedestrian over outside central station a few weeks ago (just stepped into the road about five feet in front of me) I tend to shout first and ask questions later

No one has ever stepped off a kerb and into me...but then I never ride anywhere near the yellow lines when riding in town.

Seriously uncool if a woman steps of the pavement with her back to you and some berk shouts a warning. You might think you are educating her, the fact that you pass slowly alongside her does the required effect.

Plus, if it happens alot to you maybe you need to slow down.

I shout hello, or morning or afternoon, try to be as pleasant as possible because if they haven't heard you then they don't know you are there and are going to get a shock. This shock then leads to possible friction which I prefer to avoid to be honest.

Hora - try living in a city full of tourists - they step into the road without looking to take photos, they look the wrong way - they are a real hazard even when riding out into the road - I reckon its more frequent than numpties in cars cutting you up - probably one every 2nd ride

"Morning"
"Hi"
"Hello"
"Lovely day isn't it"
"Alright luv, nice t!ts, fancy a ride?"

I tenhd to shout "HEADS UP!".

I think it's a military throw back but it seems to work (unless they're trying for death by ipod).

In that case 'incomiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing' would be more appropriate?

I save "INCOMING" to warn others in my group of a rider coming towards us at speed when off road or cars when we're crossing roads.

I use a loud "NO", much like you would to a disobedient pet. Short and to the point.

TJ - I don't have this problem - sure it's not irate stw forum users looking for revenge?

Perhaps too obvious but "BIKE" seems to work.

Just remembered a joke:
Someone standing on a pavement is hailing a passing taxi, waves and shouts "Taxi" to which the taxi driver waves and shouts "Pedestrian" as the taxi drives on past.

Seriously uncool if a woman steps of the pavement with her back to you and some berk shouts a warning. You might think you are educating her, the fact that you pass slowly alongside her does the required effect.

Plus, if it happens alot to you maybe you need to slow down

I cycle through into Manchester city centre every lunchtime. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I'm not riding fast enough as I ALWAYS have the chance to check over my right shoulder (move) or slow down. All this with (now) just one front brake.

I don't want to look like a complete and utter tool.

i sincerely wish you every success with that.

I only ever use one front brake. Two front brakes would be too confusing.

So yesterday I was cycling along Sauchiehall Street as I got to the end and turned right about ten pedestrians were crossing the road against the "red man" should I have just slowed right down and let them cross?

yes. pedestrians in the road have right of way after all.

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whether they should have been there is a different issue, but given they were there, give way.

Angry weedy little men on bicycles shouting at pedestrians? Seriously uncool.

🙄

jaywalking oblivous to the hazards of other road users is cool and a wise way to cross roads? ?

hora - Member
I cycle through into Manchester city centre every lunchtime. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing 😉

I commuted and rode for many years in central London and never had any pedestrian incidents.

If you've got time to ring a bell, blow a horn or think of a witty riposte then you've got time to take evasive action.
If you know the area you ride has pedestrian 'hazards' then you should adjust your riding behaviour to suit.
If you're using a commute or journey on prime time busy streets as a 'training ride' then you should know better.
There's as much excuse for a bike hitting a pedestrian as a car hitting a bike - in other words, none 🙄

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Ting ting!

I had one of those massive shiny things on my hack-rattles to no end...
Cheap £1 bell hidden near a shifter.

Sorted and look way ahead when riding.

hora, spot on. looking and anticipating is equally our responsibilty - most people seem to rely on ears as well as eyes and bikes are silent.

getting agro just makes you look like 'another dkhead cyclist' in most peoples eyes.

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That should do it.

I have never hit a ped. I do get tired of having to brake / take evasive action because of bloody tourists and drunks wandering all over the road - hence I shout at them to get them to move out of the way or as they step of the pavement to get them to stop.

I really must do that helmet cam vid of riding around Edinburgh

"Hello. I love you. Won't you tell me our name?"

The irony of this thread in relation to the usual cars-are-killers / car-cut-me-up-today-the-funker threads that usually abound is laughable to say the least.

Deal with them as you would have others deal with you.

There's as much excuse for a bike hitting a pedestrian as a car hitting a bike - in other words, none

I didn't make it into the city centre today to mow anyone down. Binners shouted me into a pub.

"Alright luv, nice t!ts, fancy a ride?"

winner.

I'm not sure I've ever agreed with hora, but on this occasion I really do.

Central London daily. Very occasionally someone does something a bit daft, or looks like they're going to, so you say "mind yourself love", while steering round them or braking a bit.

And mass road-crossing herds of peds outside Waterloo station have right of way by sheer weight of numbers. 🙂

But I'm increasingly thinking that compared to many of the road heroes on here I'm a little island of zen-like calm. 😉

"Brakeless dildo coming through"

"Brakeless dildo coming through"

You really need to shorten that, you'd probably hit the on them on the '..less' bit.

You could possibly get away with shouting 'ahoy I'm a dildo' in native Newcastle? (although can you understand each other up there?)

We don't actually know what the other is saying. Mostly it goes on body language. Seeing as most men can't express themselves in words alone anyway it does'nt really matter.

Usually a series of grunts followed by "two pints of the guest please" does the trick.

Thats alemen globally 😀

I don't see why you wouldn't have a bell on a town bike. You're supposed to have one, and if you ever ran a pedestrian down, I'm sure some barrister would delight in pointing the fact out. Even if the pedestrian was wearing an ipod and Kanye West's sunglasses.

ourkidsam dresses like that!

Actually had to duck the other day. Here goes.

1) Sunny day. Approaching couple on a towpath.
2) Freewheel to alert them of my approach - loud freewheel.
3) Gent turns around and clocks me before guiding his partner to the left leaving himself on her right with enough space for me to pass on his right. - all good.
4) I swerve to the right and slow down, happy he's left me room.
5)The gent who went to the trouble of ushering his beloved and himself away from cyclists path spots something on the horizon to his right.
6)He stops walking and mentions something to his partner before stretching his whole right arm out at ninety degrees, pointing at the horizon.
7)0.5 seconds later I duck n swerve and tut before changing up gear.....

Idiot.....