Idea for self-cancelling blinkers
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From: Johno on 8 Dec 2008 04:04 On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:13:10 -0800 (PST), theo <theo(a)bekkers.com.au> wrote: >On Dec 8, 2:39�pm, "George W Frost" <georgewfr...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> "theo" <t...(a)bekkers.com.au> wrote in message > >> Yeah, but your's probably comes on again when you turn the key to on. >> >> Theo >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> You have been looking in my shed again !! > >I can't even find things in my shed. I kow there's a 62 BSA A65 there >somewhere.... > >Theo I *really* hate you mate :) Johno <the jealous> Coopers? <for the A65> ;)
From: Kevin Gleeson on 8 Dec 2008 04:52 On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:35:33 -0800 (PST), knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com wrote: >On Dec 8, 7:39�am, Kevin Gleeson <kevinglee...(a)imagine-it.com.au> >wrote: >> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:08:35 GMT, "Knobdoodle" >> >> >> >> >> >> <knobdoo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >"Kevin Gleeson" <kevinglee...(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote in message >> >news:jggjj4d4h9odjmuevk1on7oar7u6af8ppt(a)4ax.com... >> >> , "Knobdoodle" > <knobdoo...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Am I missing the joke or are you REALLY saying that a motorcycle's >> >>>self-cancelling indicators work on handlebar movement?!!? >> >> >> I was trying to remember. My RZ250 in the early 80s had >> >> self-cancelling I think. I'm sure I've ridden something with them. And >> >> my unreliable memory tells me that they were actually cancelled a >> >> certain distance after a small handlebar movement. At low speed you >> >> will do a small amount of direct steer. I'm happy to be proved wrong >> >> and there was some other system doing it, but that long ago it had to >> >> be mechanical. But it worked fine. That bit I DO remember. >> >> >I reckon you're on the droogs Kev! >> >Though you're not the first person who has assumed that >> >motorcycle-indicators cancel the same as car ones I'd be very very surprised >> >so find some that do and I'd be fookin' STUNNED if a Yamaha RZ250 ever did! >> >> Fair enough, but there was some bike I rode with them and it was ages >> ago. It wouldn't have been the XT250 or the VF750 or the VF1000R and >> ceratinly no any after that. The RZ was the only one I could not write >> off as having them. Maybe I was riding a mate's bike or something?- Hide quoted text - >> >No no, I'm not saying it didn't have self-cancelling indicators Kev >(in fact I'd pretty-much stake my leftie that it and every other >descendent of the '70s RDs DID); I'm saying that it wasn't steering- >cancelled. Ah OK. I gotcha now. From what I recall, it worked quite well though.
From: namidos on 8 Dec 2008 05:39 i think this is a great idea (ingenious actually) and you should send this email to the big bike manufacturers - they will assess its suitability "Doctor Shifty" <dr.shifty(a)tpg.com.oz> wrote in message news:gh8ibj$g5s$1(a)news.motzarella.org... > I'm riding a lot in the city with this new bike. Mostly turns off the > blinkers by auto-pilot, but not always. And having them running is a > nuisance to following traffic. So I thought of a simple solution. Trouble > is, perhaps there's something I haven't thought of. > > The push-in blinker canceller is just another wire being connected in the > switch block. So another wire in parallel will do the trick. But where to > control this cancelling wire? > > My idea is to have a micro-switch operate on a gear up-shift. This will > turn the blinkers off as I change up out of the corner, but will allow > them to stay on as I change down approaching a corner. > > It sounds as simple as possible. Can anyone see any circumstance where > this won't work that I might have missed? > > Thanks > Kim
From: Knobdoodle on 8 Dec 2008 06:16 "Johno" <varcs45(a)msn.com> wrote: > <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>(for my example I was using dry water) >> > you get dry water up there? - lucky bastid! > Poo-water, salt-water, roof-water; we were after ANYTHING up until a week or two ago! Got plenty of the old wet-water since then. -- Clem
From: Knobdoodle on 8 Dec 2008 06:25
"Kevin Gleeson" <kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: > Ah well, there ya go. My memory isn't as bad as I thought. > Your memory is fine and George is still an idiot. ...and around it's axis the world rolls...... -- Clem |