From: Damien on 7 Dec 2008 01:43 Nev.. wrote: > BT Humble wrote: >> Zebee wrote: >>> CrazyCam <Crazy...(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >>>> On the Triumph, my most modern bike, and the only one with a single >>>> turn >>>> signal button thing which you push to cancel, it feels like it's >>>> actually mechanically doing something. >>> The one on the Guzzi is definitely mechanical, because you can cancel >>> the blinkers with the ignition off. >> >> Clem's old XJ900 had the equivalent of an extra speedo cable running >> from the front wheel, which went through a little mechanical doovy and >> cancelled the indicators after 100m or so. You could also manually >> cancel them, of course. > > The FZR600 from the late 80s had a similar self cancelling mechanism > which was distance activated. Might be possible to fit one of the > switch blocks from one of these bikes and adapt it to work ? > > Nev.. > '07 XB12X Surely it wouldn't be too hard to build a circuit using an accelerometer that would do the trick? It would be as simple as setting it so that when the accelerometer detects a return to a vertical position, and the blinkers are active, the cancel signal is sent.
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Dec 2008 02:42 "Peter" <someone(a)microsoft.com> wrote: > "Andrew Price" <arathorn(a)bigpond.net.au.x1> wrote: >> You can ignore blinking lights, esp in bright sunshine but try ignoring >> that >> sob for any length of time... >> > > The Australia Post CT110 come with a beeper that sounds when the turn > signal is on but I'm not sure if that is factory standard or if Australia > Post add it. > (probably the cause of "going postal") > Even bikes like Z900s and GS750s came with those beepers circa 1976. They stayed working about as long as it took to find some wire-cutters!! -- Clem
From: 33-45 on 7 Dec 2008 02:47 How about employing a Mercury switch? Blinkers would cancel out once the bike becomes upright.
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Dec 2008 03:06 "The Happy Drunk" <Leon.PeacheyNOSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ...... Not sure about the > K100RT .... I'm sure it has self cancelling indicators, but I'm having > trouble with the speedo and this feature hasn't been working for that > same amount of time > My '87 K75 had them but my '97 R1100GS didn't! Dunno if they came back on that later BeeEms though..... -- Clem
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Dec 2008 03:11
"33-45" <33-45(a)3345.com> wrote in message news:493b7e86$0$30446$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > How about employing a Mercury switch? > Blinkers would cancel out once the bike becomes upright. > 'cept a bike leant over thinks it IS upright. i.e. if you had a bowl of water on the tank while you were going at a constant radius curve, leant right over, the water level would be flat. It's like twirling a bucket around your head; the centrifical force cancels out the gravity. The microswitch would activate when you initiated the turn and the straighten-up though (unless you did it very, very gradually). -- Clem |