Use your bicycle pump to fill the plastic cylinder and you have a transport-truck-loud bicycle horn. By my experience (and the law) very much needed on these careless TO streets.
Hey!!! Wake up! Your doing something stupid (poor stressed out commuter).
Samui Air Zound Cycling Horn Image via M.E.C. (link below)
Check out this Bicycle Video Cam Youtube Uploader from the UK – the cyclist uses it to prevent a collision with a delivery van.
In this video from CTV Vancouver Island - posted May 23, 2012 – participants left from various points in the city of Victoria British Columbia, one driving a car, the other a bicycle – to see which one could get to the same destination fastest.
The Bikes won hands down.
One problem – the bike representatives didn’t seem to be aware that they had to follow traffic laws during the trials!
Still, I’d bet that a test of this here in Toronto would show that the bicycle IS faster than a car in rush hour traffic. Different distances from different areas of the city might reveal some interesting metrics.
Next year during Bike Month we should try this here in Toronto.
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BIO
I manage two blogs here at BikingToronto: "@Blog_FreeWheel" and the "Toronto/GTA Bicycle Route Mapping Wiki". The Blog and the Wiki are two sides of a coin - the blog to discuss bicycle routes and the politics of bicycle routes - and the Mapping Wiki to publish bike route maps contributors and I have discovered to help city planners, cycling advocates and road users to choose and advocate for, safe and efficient cycling routes on Toronto's busy and dangerous car-centric infrastructure.