{"id":28164,"date":"2025-07-28T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28164\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:15:07","slug":"letter-cyclists-should-have-a-bike-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28164\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: &#8216;Cyclists should have a bike bell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  However, there are many places including paths where cyclist are a problem for me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I am hard of hearing and on many occasions cyclists have come up behind me and I do not hear them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They pass me by to close which is scary. If I should move sideways there could be a very nasty accident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  What do you think? send us a letter for publication by emailing <a href=\"http:\/\/letters@bournemouthecho.co.uk%C2%A0\" rel=\"nofollow\">letters@bournemouthecho.co.uk\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recently I had a cyclist come up very close which scared me and I told him as he past to ring his bell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He shouted out as he rode on that he did not have one!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I believe it should be compulsory that if you have a bicycle you should have a bell or something similar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This would stop any potential accidents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Diane Stimpson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, there are many places including paths where cyclist are a problem for me. I am hard of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}