Red light sensors?
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From: High Plains Thumper on 7 Jul 2010 20:59 tomorrow wrote: > "J. Clarke" wrote: > >> If it's one of these big complicated intersections with a dozen >> lights or a big city intersection where you can see the lights a >> block down the street, that's fine, but how about in small towns >> where there may only be one light in sight? > > Ah, got you. I was narrowly focusing on left hand turn lights, > since those are the ones that cause the most grief where I live. You > are right, that would be quite problematical at a single light > intersection! Especially with Barney Fife with nothing else to do, watching. -- HPT
From: LSMFT on 8 Jul 2010 09:15 tomorrow(a)erols.com wrote: > On Jul 6, 8:51 pm, BryanUT<nestl...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not "seeing" >> motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. > > In Virginia, after you wait through one full cycle of the light, you > may legally proceed on red. (Not that I would enjoy explaining it to > a cop, if stopped!) If you see a cop, let him go first. -- LSMFT I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.
From: S'mee on 8 Jul 2010 09:55 On Jul 8, 7:15 am, LSMFT <bole...(a)aol.com> wrote: > tomor...(a)erols.com wrote: > > On Jul 6, 8:51 pm, BryanUT<nestl...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > >> I guess I could have just run the red light. Damn sensors not "seeing" > >> motorcycles. No wonder cages hit us. > > > In Virginia, after you wait through one full cycle of the light, you > > may legally proceed on red. (Not that I would enjoy explaining it to > > a cop, if stopped!) > > If you see a cop, let him go first. Yep he's got a radio, BPV, shot gun, spike strips and long guns in the trunk. Let HIM go first he's got more fire power. If you are like my you are just packing one gun and one magazine...on the plus side you probally know how to use it.
From: Bob Myers on 8 Jul 2010 16:26 Rob Kleinschmidt wrote: > On Jul 7, 12:37 pm, "Bob Myers" <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >> But at least I absolutely >> refuse to start a second childhood until I am well and truly >> through with the first one. > > Personally, I'm hoping for a seamless transition from > one to the other. No idea when that might be, though; the first childhood seems to have quite a few more miles left on it. Bob M.
From: tylernt on 8 Jul 2010 18:46
> Yes, I have heard of the same solution before by other bikers. The > other recommended was to drive the rims of the tyres overtop the > embedded tripwire loop in the black top. However, I have found that not > all signals will work even with that solution. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your wheels are aluminum alloy (as I understand many tubeless wheels are), I don't believe a magnetic loop sensor will pick them up. Where possible I try to position my bike's engine block over the loop... seems to work pretty well, and should have a lot more metal than even tubed/spoked rims. |