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This is partly why the Canal & River Trust (used to be British Waterways) no longer promotes a message of ringing your bell. The best thing is not to use a bell at all but to wait politely while not putting them under pressure.
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Pushing them in the canal while yelling "YIPPEEEEEE!" is not the done thing? Oh, all these years...
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@Doctor_Cake and I have been following a policy of waiting and politely saying excuse me when riding the towpath. DC was riding it every working day to work.
This mostly bewilders towpath walkers. I expect it's the fact that we are actually not complete wankers.
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Howard
Sadly because of all those impatient cyclists, when peds on towpaths hear bells now they assume you're some dick trying to force your way through, even if you're just trying to say 'I'm here, and I don't want to scare you, I will ease past when it's safe and polite to do so'.
I've yet to work out how to sound my bell in order to get that longwinded message across, so I tend to just ring way way in advance and look meek.