Re: ‘We really don't give a hoot - just give us a toot' and ‘Cyclists - please use bells' (The Weekend Sun, January 23).

I agree with last week's letter writers, N Griffiths and D Holm, who wrote about cyclists warning pedestrians with a bell on shared walkways.

I always thank those who warn me. Even a shout of ‘bike on the right' is enough – so long as they are on the right

I thought bells were once compulsory on bikes – in my childhood – like reflector bands on the rear mudguard? They were checked by the traffic police when they visited schools back in the 1940s and 1950s. If so, when was the compulsory bell removed?

Or is my memory failing?

And for children who need to learn which side is left – I taught my children ‘write with your right hand' – great until I got two left=-handers – but they all learned.
Even some adult walkers need to learn to keep to the left when walking.

K Fathers, Otumoetai.