I've have all of the bells mentioned... or should I say, "Hello my name is Marc and I'm a bellaholic."
Seriously, I have all of them except for the PDW bell (I have the stem spacer version of that bell, the Alexander Graham Bell) and the Lion. The Crane mounted on a quill stem crushes them all - an authoritative sonourous ding that can be heard from a good distance back. The PDW (Alexander Graham Bell) is a distant second, the Spur, a distant 3rd. I, too, was enticed by the backstory and engineering aspect of the Spur cycle bell but one day I had a moment of clarity that changed everything: I was commuting home on the bike trail on a hot summer day and came up behind a very attractive female jogger. "Perfect, opportunity to use my new bell," I thought to myself. "Everyone loves the bell." Plink, Plink. She didn't hear me. A little bit closer.... Plink Plink.... Nope. Plink, Plink....Plink, Plink... "NOTICE ME" "ACKNOWLEDGE MY PRESENCE". Well, eventually she did and it wasn't with a smile. The creepiness and absurdity of of the scene struck me like brick in the head. I was 'that guy'. I saw the scene for what it was: A middle aged guy on a bike, vigorously flicking his little penis-head shaped bell, smiling like a madman while riding behind an attractive female jogger on the bike path. I ding loud and proud from as far back as possible now. My bell is a thunderous warning, not a creepy plink plink. On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 9:08:24 PM UTC-4, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Crane bells are super cool and very classy. It's great they are made in > Japan, and I love them. > > BUT > > Spur Cycle bells are by far the nicest bike bell I've ever seen. I bought > one from Ocean Air Cycles, because Rob Perks is the man, and I was blown > away at how nice this bell in. It's loud and pure and never makes a peep > unless you want it to. I just picked up a second one from a tiny Berkeley > Bike Boutique, just because they had it on the shelf, and I like buying > local. Spur Cycle bells are MUSA and they kick butt. $50 for a bell may > seem perverse to frugal riders, but when you can get the very best anything > for $50, that's something. > > https://www.spurcycle.com/ > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
