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jwnagle@alw.nih.gov wrote:

: My only real complaint with cyclists that I have to deal with in these
: parts (metro DC) is the unwillingness of a significant number of them
: to give an audible warning before whizzing by you at 15-25 mph.
[...]
: How about you other runners out there? Do you prefer to be warned?

I *loathe* it when I'm in a good running groove and some cyclist swirls by
me without warning at what to me feels like warp speed. On the other hand,
when I was first running and hadn't cycled in many years, people suddenly
looming out of the mist yelling "On your LEFT!!" scared me even more. I
didn't even know what the damn message *meant* and tended to leap to my
left, since I was obviously being told to do something, and the only
content I could figure was "left". Near disaster.

Now I'm a cyclist rather than a runner, I tend to yodel "meep meep" a la
RoadRunner. This is only ineffective/embarrassing when you turn out to be
meeping at your boss or a patient. For the very young I say whole
sentences ("Stay just where you are, sweetheart, I'm cycling by you"), and
for the very old I utter a genteel "Bing!".

Madeleine "a demonstration of which saved me a fine for having no bell one
time in Ottawa" Page