SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssSSSSSSSSSSSsssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssrrrrrrr does it behind me on the bike path. Without having to look around me, I know that a person with an expensive bike has just driven close to me – and now no longer steps into the pedals. Because this whir is only created in the freewheel.
So the person on my rear wheel gives me wordlessly to understand that she would like to drive past me. All right, I steer a little to the right and it can continue to whiz. Now toneless again.
I find this type of communication from bike to bike much more elegant than alarmist murmur, with a touch of passive aggressiveness resonates, the SSSSSSRRRRR also transports the message “You are stopping me”.
Since I often feel slowed down by other cycling, it doesn’t annoy me. It is more of envy. Because my Hollandrad built in 1965 only gives the nasty purring a three -speed circuit at idle. I can not draw anyone with that. Especially when pedestrians are nearby, a sporty whir would be practical.
After all: if it goes over cobblestone or potholes, my bike rattles dramatically, which often replaces the bell that I really only use in an emergency.
The SSSSSSRRRRR is a still relatively young phenomenon on Berlin’s streets. Once only professional wheels sounded that in races like the tour de France, which is currently ongoing, actually serves to distinguish between the drivers.
In the meantime, however, more and more manufacturers of high -quality bikes for normal road traffic are building the sound effect. It is created by one or more blocking clinkers inside the rear wheel hub. Depending on how firmly you are tensioned using a small feathers, how they are oiled and greased, the sound varies. The material of the frame also plays a role.
There are various instructions on the net to manipulate the whir that is actually a click. For some, the sound is even considered a status symbol. The fact that he is mostly a “You are in the way” in Berlin is due to the mostly too narrow bike paths. The speedsters would sound even more beautiful in a well -developed network.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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