Is a bell necessary on a bike?

not a necessary as 2 wheels

I wouldn't have one.

It's safer, but not necessary.

It's necessary for a mute, I suppose.

It's safer. Some bike riders are reckless, riding on the sidewalk, not stopping, etc. They give careful bike riders a bad name.

It makes a stupid ding ding ding noise.

It's safer (and a little goofy, too), but not necessary.

I've never even used a car horn, and am annoyed when most other do. If you don't like saying 'to your left' I suppose it could be of use for passing other bicyclists, more so than car horns are needed for such purposes where everyone has their own lane anyhow.

I think so...

I dunno, I use one of these:

I like your new user page photo. I like to see people having fun/goofing around, rather than portrait.

It's ... something else. It's a knock-knock joke. Who's there. Isabel. Ok, shoot me. There were no other surveys in unqual.

It's a knock-knock joke.
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Isabel.
Isabel who?
Isabel necessary on a bicycle?

it's essential to safety.

Ha! You know it too!

Thanks
I liked the last picture, but this one seems more genuine.

I gueess that's what I liked about it, too.

You cannot ride a bike unless it has a bell. Otherwise you are not cool. A basket is optional.

Streamers and flapping flags for your spokes...

sweeeet I had the playing cards on the spokes, I can't remember what held those on.

Wooden clothes pins. I only recently read those were supposed to simulate the sound of motorcycle exhaust.

You didn't do that back in the day? I wasn't sure what kind of clothes pins my mom used.

I did do it, I just didn't realize it was supposed to sound like motorcycle exhaust, and see now why it wasn't cool to have one on the front wheel as well.

Gay...

Bells on bikes rust.

Why not just put a train horn on your bike who will ever hear a bell?

There was this one kid who had several on the front and the back...
wait...that kid was me. I tried the excessive noise until all the clothes pins fell off.

My main use for the clothes pins was rubber-band guns, especially deadly if you used another spring as ammo, and stretched three rubber bands taut along a broom-stick, or six sets circling the entire stick as I came up with. You could site with one or two, then release all the others at once. I refined the design from one I saw other kids using made with a stubby 2x4. This eventually led to the wrist-rocket & M-80 combo and CO2 BB-pistol & lady-fingers combo (until one blew up in my gun). My parents generation had tales which were even more extreme. These days kids can't even carry scout knives or matches without being some sort of terrorist. On the other hand, real guns seemed to be carried for crime purposes less back then too. 60's movies are funny the way major criminals terrorized with a knife.

If your a fudging twinkie maybe