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It's Ok Nick, I picked up on the point of your post . These jobbies are 7 quid delivered and Stebel whatsits are, well, a lot more I might buy some, but a bit like Dai, the last time mine was used was when it was MOT'd, if he tested it.

You've gotta wonder how these cheapies will cope being out in the breeze rather than tucked away in a car's engine bay. But at £7 has to be worth a go.

Mike

Boxermed69 wrote:You've gotta wonder how these cheapies will cope being out in the breeze rather than tucked away in a car's engine bay. But at £7 has to be worth a go.

Mike

Well, actualy, they're that small that I've got 'em fitted in the (out of the weather) space left by OE fitment. I've drilled a small hole in each 'horn' and loosely cable-tied 'em to the fairing mounting so that in the unlikely event of the supplied laminated bracket failing due to the effects of vibration, they won't fall very far.
In response to the comments along the lines of " I never use mine."/"Don't know where it is." I'll give this one example:- Not long after fitting these I found myself pootling along, in broad daylight, at about walking pace, down our very narrow Kington High Street ('Google Street View' it?). I was stuck behind a very large CO-OP Artic' pulling a 'fridge', as the driver negotiated his way 'round the odd (illegally) parked car. Now, I wear a 'high-viz' helmet and had my HID on 'dip' and, on initially coming up behind this truck, I'd placed myself in a position so's to be visible in the truckers rear views (but of course with no guarantee he had actually seen me). After a few yards I can see in my mirrors that a single decker bus is close on my tail. The curbs in our High Street are 6" deep and with a couple of cars parked on the opposite side I'm effectivly boxed in No worries tho, just another ten yards and I can branch off down a side street. But oh dear; What's this? The truck has stopped half way round the 'dog-leg' in the street 'cos some twat's parked outside the post office preventing him making the turn in one 'go'. He's going to have to back-up to do it. On come his reversing lights, and his little warning bleeper starts bleeping He can see he's got a bus behind him but he's obviously unaware that I'm just 6' away from his back doors. I've got nowhere to go. I'm trapped The only thing I can do is give a long blast on my cheap-as-chips 'Audible Warning Device'. It worked. He stopped 'DEAD' . Even above the noise in his cab he'd heard these little beauts. I doubt he'd have heard the measly little thing that came with the bike tho. The bus driver, a mate of mine, could see along the trailer, signaled to the trucker that I was there, then made a 'wipeing his brow' gesture to me and eventualy, we all got sorted out. To sum up: I'm glad I can find my horn when I need to. I'm glad it works when I need it to and I'm glad I don't have to wait 'till some MOT tester tells me it's unservisable. And finaly; The £7.00 I spent on these attention grabbing little life-savers was 7 beer tokens well spent I recon Take my advise? GETSUM

Spot on! If a driver 'didn't see you' then maybe just maybe they can hear you.

By the way I think that truck drivers are generally pretty good at keeping an eye out for bikers... in my humble experience that is... And I always acknowledge if they attempt to get out of my way when I'm filtering.

Cliff wrote:Spot on! If a driver 'didn't see you' then maybe just maybe they can hear you.

By the way I think that truck drivers are generally pretty good at keeping an eye out for bikers... in my humble experience that is... And I always acknowledge if they attempt to get out of my way when I'm filtering.

I used to spend a lot of time trucking in Europe. I'll always try to make a truckers life easier by me giving way to him/her if I can. After all that CO-OP truck had probly just delivered our groceries for the week.

el-nicko wrote:

Boxermed69 wrote:You've gotta wonder how these cheapies will cope being out in the breeze rather than tucked away in a car's engine bay. But at £7 has to be worth a go.

Mike

Well, actualy, they're that small that I've got 'em fitted in the (out of the weather) space left by OE fitment. I've drilled a small hole in each 'horn' and loosely cable-tied 'em to the fairing mounting so that in the unlikely event of the supplied laminated bracket failing due to the effects of vibration, they won't fall very far.
In response to the comments along the lines of " I never use mine."/"Don't know where it is." I'll give this one example:- Not long after fitting these I found myself pootling along, in broad daylight, at about walking pace, down our very narrow Kington High Street ('Google Street View' it?). I was stuck behind a very large CO-OP Artic' pulling a 'fridge', as the driver negotiated his way 'round the odd (illegally) parked car. Now, I wear a 'high-viz' helmet and had my HID on 'dip' and, on initially coming up behind this truck, I'd placed myself in a position so's to be visible in the truckers rear views (but of course with no guarantee he had actually seen me). After a few yards I can see in my mirrors that a single decker bus is close on my tail. The curbs in our High Street are 6" deep and with a couple of cars parked on the opposite side I'm effectivly boxed in No worries tho, just another ten yards and I can branch off down a side street. But oh dear; What's this? The truck has stopped half way round the 'dog-leg' in the street 'cos some twat's parked outside the post office preventing him making the turn in one 'go'. He's going to have to back-up to do it. On come his reversing lights, and his little warning bleeper starts bleeping He can see he's got a bus behind him but he's obviously unaware that I'm just 6' away from his back doors. I've got nowhere to go. I'm trapped The only thing I can do is give a long blast on my cheap-as-chips 'Audible Warning Device'. It worked. He stopped 'DEAD' . Even above the noise in his cab he'd heard these little beauts. I doubt he'd have heard the measly little thing that came with the bike tho. The bus driver, a mate of mine, could see along the trailer, signaled to the trucker that I was there, then made a 'wipeing his brow' gesture to me and eventualy, we all got sorted out. To sum up: I'm glad I can find my horn when I need to. I'm glad it works when I need it to and I'm glad I don't have to wait 'till some MOT tester tells me it's unservisable. And finaly; The £7.00 I spent on these attention grabbing little life-savers was 7 beer tokens well spent I recon Take my advise? GETSUM

A 473 word reply in one barely readable paragraph about some bloody horns. W.T.F.

Thankfully it wasn't in the humour section, so no doubt acceptable!

Yay the spirit of chris lives!

This ain't Twitter you know

Cliff wrote:Yay the spirit of chris lives!

Who hell him

el-nicko wrote:

Cliff wrote:Yay the spirit of chris lives!

Who hell him

Chris = winger


Your story reminded me of a time when i was on my old Gpz, at lights steep hill start woman in front of me kept putting car in reverse l kept blasting horn and shouting i managed to get alongside her and told her what she was doing she said no, i said your reversing lights keep coming on she again said no, lights changed she reversed into the car that would have been behind me had i stayed where i was!.

So i have just ordered a pair of your horns one day i may just need them

Cheers Dai

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honk....

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Dai wiskers wrote:

boxerboy2 wrote:honk....

Cough

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