Lhollo
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF pt2, Belorado to Sarria, May 21 – June 12, 2022
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?
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?