Ok the sweet part is that today I rode the bike to the store to get lunch, The sour part is I got sweet and sour pork for lunch. Anwyhoo, I was standing in line and this older guy maybe 50 (sorry Marty haha) came up to me and asked if the KLX in the parking lot was mine, and we started talking. I was into the full salesman swing of things, he was really wanting to now more about the bike, and then on my way back to work, I stopped at the light, and I guess I was not centered and so I couldn't get the light to change, so after 3 cycles, I ran the light after making sure there was nobody around, now that's liberating to say the least. If I would have gotten caught I would have fought it to the end, they need to fix stoplights so even a bicycle would trip them.[:@]

 

Deej,

This reminds me that I have been meaning to ping you guys again about the kickstand trick at trip lights. Do I understand correctly that the idea is to put the stand down ON the induction circle or is it supposed to be touching the ground INSIDE the circle.

From your post here is sounds like you were putting it down in the center of the circle. I would guess that is where any induced field would be, so maybe that answers the question.

I realize that half of what I am saying here might be jibberish because I don't understand much of anything when it comes to electrical stuff. By the time I got to that stuff in school my brain was full.

Thanks,
Chris

 

Well I have done that stop light at least 20 times in the past month and I have figured out how to trip it, this particular light is run off magnetics, I need to be a little closer to the left part of the lane, I'm gonna go and try it again to see what's up, I'll report back later. There is a pretty long post over on the thumpertalk site about this subject.

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/sho...Traffic+lights

 

maybe if your "town" had more than one traffic light you would get more practice trippin the switch..... lol

 

You say that like its a bad thing. I'll take the one stop light over any city any day of the week. You can't buy what we small town people have. But as small as my town is, and it's small, its not as small as this place, Look at the transportation. Wouldn't that be cool? And I bet all the guys in there are packing side arms too. Where is the time machine? I drive past that place about 2.5 hours south of me when I go to visit my mom, I just had to stop and take a couple of pictures. One of these days I'm gonna stop in there and order a beer just for the experience of it all, and I HATE BEER!!!! But it would be cool none the less.

 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Your town has a stop light.


Thats a farkin city!


There are city roads that aren't even paved here!

 

I know I should know this, but ... I'll wing it from memory instead. *

Underground traffic sensors at intersections have 3 yellow dots on the surface that are on the groove in the pavement where the sensor wire is buried, but only on 1 side of the loop. I remember reading in the Ontario Driver's Manual that motorcycles should stop on these dots in order for the sensor to detect the bike. (As opposed to stopping in the middle of the sensor loop.) Even if you don't have the 3 dots on the pavement, if the intersection hasn't been recently resurfaced, it might still be easy to see where the pavement was cut to install the sensor wire.

Anyway, that's the way it works here ... but maybe it's just a metric thing.

Mike

* I had a motorcycle license when I lived in Connecticut, and when I moved to Ontario, they simply issued an equivalent license without having to be retested. Now, if I could just remember where I parked ...