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Lights and Bell

  • 11-05-2015 9:01am
    #1
    cantwbr1
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭


    One of my kids picked up the cycle safety booklet from our local Garda station. Page 3 states;
    “It’s the law to have a bell on your bike at all times and to have workinglights.”

    Is this correct and should we all have lights on the bike during the day


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  • #2
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,805 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    You only need lights after dark -- and a red rear reflector.

    You do officially need a bell (except on a bike "adapted for racing" or something like that), but I've never heard of that being enforced, so I treat it as a "dead letter" law.


  • #3
    kenmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭kenmc


    there's an exemption, can't remember the exact words, something like "unless modified for racing".
    lights only needed during lighting up time as defined by road traffic acts


  • #4
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Bell not required of modified for racing. Lights after dark are a legal requirement.

    I use Exposure strobes back and front during the day depending on conditions (low sun, shadows etc).

    Edit - here's another solution to a bell

    http://inhabitat.com/trotify-makes-your-bike-sound-like-a-galloping-horse/

    :)


  • #5
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    In France last year every Dutch cyclist that I came across had a bell on there bike, every one of them! .. Pinarello Road bike with Di2 or Campag EPS, Carbon Wheels, Carbon Handlebars and a tiny black (I assume carbon) bell attached.

    Very law abiding those Dutch cyclists!


  • #6
    Fian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭Fian


    Yeah, love that "carbon" ringing sound when it is hit by the clapper :P


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  • #7
    sbs2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭sbs2010


    Isn't the exemption for the bell only for races?

    So all bikes need a bell unless you are in an official race of some sort?


  • #8
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    sbs2010 wrote: »
    Isn't the exemption for the bell only for races?

    So all bikes need a bell unless you are in an official race of some sort?

    According to the legislation (S.I. No. 190/1963 - Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963), the requirement is :

    "93. (1) Every pedal cycle (other than a cycle constructed or adapted for use as a racing cycle) while used in a public place shall be fitted with an audible warning device consisting of a bell capable of being heard at a reasonable distance, and no other type of audible warning instrument shall be fitted to a pedal cycle while used in a public place."


  • #9
    DaithiMC
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭DaithiMC


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    According to the legislation (S.I. No. 190/1963 - Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) Regulations, 1963), the requirement is :

    "93. (1) Every pedal cycle (other than a cycle constructed or adapted for use as a racing cycle) while used in a public place shall be fitted with an audible warning device consisting of a bell capable of being heard at a reasonable distance, and no other type of audible warning instrument shall be fitted to a pedal cycle while used in a public place."

    So that makes the AirZound things illegal?


  • #10
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,657 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    It's all covered in the Irish Cycling legislation thread

    Thread closed


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