Ring out, wild bells! Let people know you\’re coming!

Okay, so the poem is about \”Ring out the old, ring in the new\”.

Riding a bicycle might or might not be poetic; but I sure wish more riders had — and used — bells on their bicycles.

It\’s a bit unnerving to have a rider come up from behind and whizz past me without calling, \”On your left!\” And also without sounding a bell.

I don\’t always hear a rider approaching from the rear; and I can\’t watch my rearview mirror nonstop. I\’ve got to watch where I\’m going. Add to that the difficulty in getting the mirror positioned correctly in the first place.

For the hybrid, I have an Incredibell; and I like it much better than the bell I have for the road bike. The Incredibell has a much better sound. I tried to switch the bells from one bike to the other; but the band for the Incredibell doesn\’t fit around the road bike\’s handlebars.

These bells, incidentally, are not waterproof. When I get caught in the rain, and my bell gets full of water, it makes hardly any sound at all. Then there\’s no use in saying, ring out, wild bells.