One of the dangers of cycling is that bicycles don’t make a lot of sound. On the road that often means that they are not noticed by drivers. Making your bike sound like a phony motorbike, which is what the Moto Horn does, might help in that regard, but chances are that a $10 noisemaker won’t be loud enough to make all that much difference.
Price: $9.50 [Random Good Stuff via Foolish Gadgets]
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12 responses
Jun 21, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Cyclist, watch out for cars. Get a bell to warn pedestrians. Stop shouting!
Jun 21, 2009 at 1:19 pm
What’s really ironic is that motorcyclists commonly use safety and awareness as an argument for having louder pipes on their bikes. This product, to me, just seems like a mindshare training tool for that line of thinking
As a child: “Pedestrians will know I’m there if I install this and make my bicycle louder!”
As a mid-life crisis Harley owner: “Drivers in cars will know I’m there if I install these straight pipes to make my Harley louder!”
After giving up: “Nope…actually…nothing ever made any difference with respect to awareness. Now I am sad and deaf.”
Jun 21, 2009 at 3:39 pm
With that thing being attached by a simple tin 2 screw clamp… and being that it is replacing a HAND GRIP which is one of the most critical safety items on the bike…
When those screws loosen up and the grip slides off at the most inopportune time… someone is going to get hurt real bad.
This company has shit for brains engineers, lawyers and insurers.
Jun 21, 2009 at 6:09 pm
What ever happened to using a playing card in the spokes?
Jun 21, 2009 at 6:32 pm
doesn’t anyone remember these from when we were kids in the 80’s?
Jun 21, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I do!
Jun 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Hey! I used to have one of those when I rent to primary school (grade school) in the 80’s.
I saw it in a catalogue and said to my mum “Wow, that looks weird, stupid and embarrassing!” and hey presto – that year’s birthday present became a lock!
(FYI, yes, they did poke fun at me at school for having it on my bike)
Jun 22, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I had one of these as a kid 30 years ago!
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:08 pm
The cyclical nature of technology, stuff is destined to forever be made, forgotten, and reinvented.
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Yeah, I don’t know if this was exactly “re-invented”. I think they just took the forms of the whelf, put them back into the presses and declared it “80’s week” at the s.e.-Asian plastics sweatshop where they’re made.
(FYI, I’m going as Tom Selleck, so noone else better choose that)
Jun 22, 2009 at 7:57 pm
“Whelf”!! WTF to these typos come from! (”shelf”)
Jun 23, 2009 at 4:46 am
Typos happen to the best of us
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