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[NYC_Gal]

I've been looking, and haven't been able to find one. Any help would be appreciated. I need it to

a) get people to move out of my damned way when I'm riding to work. I try to stick to the streets, but some parts are too dangerous and I'm forced to go on the sidewalk.

b) have a really funny commute.

Thanks in advance!

[interestedinhanguk]

At the bike shop?

[Jane]

Here:

http://item.gmarket.co.kr/challenge/neo_goods/goods.asp?goodscode=152346389&pos_shop_cd=SH&pos_class_cd=111111111&pos_class_kind=T&search_keyword=자전거벨

[le-paul]

my advice would be - buy a small battery about the size of a fist - those ones - attach it to your bike then go to an 'auto bayee service centre' and buy a motor cycle horn.
Attach it to the battery and there you go - people will crap themselves and think there is a truck behind them.
I promise you - they will move

[Underwaterbob]

You can buy small heat/motion detectors that have 105db alarms in them. They come with a tiny remote to turn them on and off. Mount it on your handlebars pointing at yourself, and mount the remote somewhere near your thumb. Just turn it on and plug your ears (maybe difficult on a bike) and people will definitely get the picture. Doubles as a bike security system too!

[NYC_Gal]

Haha sounds like fun! I wouldn't feel safe with ear plugs, though. I need to hear the traffic around me (I do ride in the road whenever possible--it's just that my daily commute forces me onto the sidewalk at certain dangerous areas, and people just DON'T MOVE!)

[conrad2]

[NYC_Gal]

When there's a highway off ramp, you'd better believe I'm not riding in the road, even with my reflector vest. I've seen dozens of pedestrians get hit there. My first week in Korea I saw a man bleeding in the road after being hit there.

Considering the fact that motorbikes and the occasional truck drive on the sidewalk, I'll do what the Koreans do in order to remain safer.

I'll definitely look into the motorbike horn. I wish I could find one of those refillable (with a bike pump) air canister horns, though. I have one on my bike back home, and I never ride that one on the sidewalk.