I wondered whether anything has been said here as regards people who can’t hear cyclist bells. They’re at the exact frequency of my partner’s hearing loss, and I know of other people with the same type of high pitch loss.
For my own part, I’m glad of the bells and find them helpful. We did have a few awkward moments when I yelled at my partner to get out of the way, though. He’d turn to figure out which way to move, which was usually quite a slow process. So I tried to start just shouting LEFT!!! We joked that he needed a ‘Deaf’ T-shirt, even though his hearing isn’t generally too bad. That said, he often didn’t hear cyclists until they were close anyway, even when they didn’t use bells.
I don’t envy bicigrinos who must have a hard job avoiding mowing people down, given how unpredictable foot pilgrim responses probably are.
Any thoughts on this?