Bell? Or Voice?

[7rider]

I'm so oppositional/defiant that if someone sneered at my bike for having a bell I'd go find the biggest squeaky plastic dinosaur horn I could find and add it on next to the bell.

My sister's GF gave me a big plastic bunny squeaky bell for my bike.
Uh....never made it to my bike, but I "re-gifted" it to a friend for her (then) 3-y.o. daughter.

Like several here, I use a bell for initial warnings at distance, then announce my passing by voice as I get closer. That's on my commuter, which I ride more regularly (although rarely, still) on a MUT. My road bike has no bell, and when I pass cyclists on the road, I just yell "On your left" as I approach.

I wouldn't put a bell on my road bike. It's fine for my commuter, although even that bell was given to me as a joke-gift from a friend when I bought a cruiser at a yard sale...she said a big beach cruiser needs a bell! Funny...it just occurred to me...all bells were given to me as gifts...I never bought a single one.