Why no hazard lights on bikes?

[Timber020]

I had to make a quick stop the other day and was thinking of all the bikes that break down, run out of gas or get in general strife. Why dont bikes have hazard lights? I cant think of a good reason.

[scumdog]

Both normajeanes and my Harley do.

Press both indicator switches at the same time and viola! Instant hazard lights.

[steve_t]

Small enough to not be a major hazard? Dunno... laziness and cost cutting?

[Highlander]

Mine does.
Well the BMW does, the other three we have don't.

[Virago]

Mine does too, and so does Mutley's.

[Meanie]

Mine has them, used them one night when we were first on an accident scene

[sels1]

So does mine. Perhaps you need a new bike!

[Pussy]

Suzuki road bikes have had them since 2003

[YellowDog]

Hazzards shouldn't be a big deal. LED ones would be better and less likely to drain the battery.

On the few times that I have been stuck, I have always pushed the bike off the road.

A fair comment would be that it would be much safer puching it off the road with hazzard lights flashing!

[Skunk]

My Z1000 had them.

[warewolf]

All my Hinckley Triumphs have had 'em.

None of my dirty bikes do. Reason: cost, complexity, lack of battery capacity maybe?

[kasper]

My F650 cs has them and i regulalry use them, but rarely for break downs of my bike.

--kasper

[klingon]

Suzuki road bikes have had them since 2003

My Volty has them, and she was made in 1995!

Can't be anything to do with cost or complexity if they can be installed on a Volty. :yes:

[xxcbr69xx]

Even the 1994 NSR250 has them.

[James Deuce]

Mine does.

[klingon]

My F650 cs has them and i regulalry use them, but rarely for break downs of my bike.

--kasper

I use them a fair bit too. Like if I'm stopped at a red light and there's a car coming up behind me and I'm not sure if they've seen me, or sometimes when I'm lane splitting, or when it's dark and I leave my bike in front of the garage door while I go in to open it and I'm terrified one of the neighbours will come racing down the (shared) driveway and scuttle it! :gob:

Now that I know some bikes don't have them, I'm going to use them as my special 'wave' to other bikes... just because I can! :cool:

[Cheshire Cat]

I though of this as going down the motorway today looking at broken down cars.....if bikes had hazard lights my mother would put them on through round abouts :laugh:

[oldrider]

Triumph Tigers have got hazard lights but most cagers ignore them, especially when you are negotiating ice, bastards! :doh:

[Motu]

I really hate to agree with anyone on the site....but every bike I've had since 2000 has had hazards.(before 2000 none of my bikes ever had indicators...'cept the C50)

[Mystic13]

I had to make a quick stop the other day and was thinking of all the bikes that break down, run out of gas or get in general strife. Why dont bikes have hazard lights? I cant think of a good reason.

So now the question is "Do you really have no hazard lights or is it that you just don't know how to work 'em?"

Last post like this I saw it was they had 'em but didn't know how to turn them on.

[Indiana_Jones]

My Daytona doesn't have one

-Indy

[CookMySock]

My 650 has hazard lights. Never had to use them.

Steve

[Kiwi Graham]

Yep the 14 has em, never used them.

[YellowDog]

All my Hinckley Triumphs have had 'em.

None of my dirty bikes do. Reason: cost, complexity, lack of battery capacity maybe?
Indy mate, maybe we should check to see if they're on our Hinckley Triumphs?

[scracha]

Rear fog light would be more useful but you guys too daft to even require them on cars. Hell, what would be the point tho...over half the dumbasses here don't even put their lights on when its foggy

[yungatart]

My bike does have hazard lights!

[Indiana_Jones]

Indy mate, maybe we should check to see if they're on our Hinckley Triumphs?

Well I did lol, the owners manual makes no mention of them too :mellow:

Maybe it's a real high tech Meriden Hinckley! :lol:

-Indy

[James Deuce]

Rear fog light would be more useful but you guys too daft to even require them on cars. Hell, what would be the point tho...over half the dumbasses here don't even put their lights on when its foggy

The ones with fog lights will turn them on when it isn't foggy as well. Just what everyone needs, bright unidirectional light.

[Hazza]

My Daytona doesn't have one

-Indy

Neither does my TT Ive actually needed them a couple of times.

[boman]

Suzuki road bikes have had them since 2003

Yep both my Suzuki's have them

[skidMark]

Your bikes all suck, my zxr doesnt have them, its too reliable...

and its blatently obvious to others that i am a hazard.

[jetboy]

I don't plan on breaking down so they aren't needed.....yet

[warewolf]

Maybe it's a real high tech Meriden Hinckley! :lol:All T3s and a T4. Obviously not rated as important if they've been dropped from later bikes.

[Cajun]

I have riden with a two different people who use the hazard to warn riders behind them of hazards (gravel etc on road), this is espially useful if someon enew to road and other person more experniced.

Suzuki has them, the aprilia does not.

[steve_t]

Rear fog light would be more useful but you guys too daft to even require them on cars. Hell, what would be the point tho...over half the dumbasses here don't even put their lights on when its foggy

I HATE the euro cages that have a blindingly bright rear fog light... all the eejits that have their fog lights on when there's not an ounce of fog about piss me off :argh: plus it's technically illegal. Luckily most boyracers drive Jap cars which don't have them :woohoo:

[NighthawkNZ]

I had to make a quick stop the other day and was thinking of all the bikes that break down, run out of gas or get in general strife. Why dont bikes have hazard lights? I cant think of a good reason.

Xaria Hyosung does

[The Stranger]

I had to make a quick stop the other day and was thinking of all the bikes that break down, run out of gas or get in general strife. Why dont bikes have hazard lights? I cant think of a good reason.

Good idea, write all the manufacturers and suggest it.

[Beemer]

The BMW F650CS I used to own had hazard lights, and I think one of the other half's Beemers has them too.

[Hitcher]

My ZRX1200R, ST1300, FJR1300 and SL750 have all had hazard lights. Ditto for Mrs H's two Marauders and how her Bandit.

Perhaps a better question is which bikes don't have hazard lights?

[NighthawkNZ]

Perhaps a better question is which bikes don't have hazard lights?


I don't think my ST4s does...

[sunhuntin]

my viragos got hazards... ive used them a couple of times when im riding in less than satisfactory conditions like fog or in tunnels, also if im stopped on the side of the open road for any reason. neither of my gn250s had them, which sucked.

[yachtie10]

Mine does:rockon:

[Forest]

My BMW has them. Push both indicator buttons together to switch them on.

[breakaway]

No point in having hazard lights on a GSXR1000, because the rear ones are always pointing into the ground, and the forward ones always point toward the sky, so unless you're signalling to airplanes there's really no point.

[Finn]

I don't plan on breaking down so they aren't needed.....yet

They're not there just for when you break down. My Harley has them and I use them when going through twisties so big 4WD's towing caravans don't rear end me.

[jetboy]

True, I must admit in my wealth of riding experience (ummm about a month now) I have had the need to use hazards whilst riding

[Pussy]

airplanes

aeroplanes.

Jap market Suzukis have had hazard lights since about 1998

[Str8 Jacket]

Perhaps a better question is which bikes don't have hazard lights?

GN250, KR150, FZR400, A100, RG150 and FXR150...

[Maha]

I carry a road cone.....

[steve_t]

aeroplanes.

Are you correcting his english? Cos both are accepted as part of our vernacular :rockon:

[Pussy]

I carry a road cone.....
And we all know where.
Don't bring your fetishes to this forum, Maha.... :)

[Pussy]

Are you correcting his english? Cos both are accepted as part of our vernacular :rockon:

"airplane" if you're American... "aeroplane" for the rest of the world.

I suppose you say "ass" instead of the correct "arse"?

[James Deuce]

Are you correcting his english? Cos both are accepted as part of our vernacular :rockon:

No they aren't. "Airplane" is a colloquialism. Aeroplane is a proper noun.

[Matt_TG]

I carry a road cone.....

:eek5: :2thumbsup


My 1984 GPZ has hazard lights. Never used them though, unless putting them on in a dark garage for an impromptu disco counts :woohoo:

[steve_t]

No they aren't. "Airplane" is a colloquialism. Aeroplane is a proper noun.

You do understand what vernacular means right?? Colloquialisms are part of the vernacular. I dare you to find any New Zealander in the street that doesn't know what an 'airplane' is. I'm not saying whether it's in the dictionary or not but that it's a word that the majority of people know. In saying this, if they can put words like TXT into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2009, I'm sure it'll have Airplane ;)

[Meanie]

I carry a road cone.....

Is your riding that bad :laugh:

[scracha]

I HATE the euro cages that have a blindingly bright rear fog light... all the eejits that have their fog lights on when there's not an ounce of fog about piss me off :argh: plus it's technically illegal. Luckily most boyracers drive Jap cars which don't have them :woohoo:

No different to clowns who drive their bikes on full beam during daylight. Don't blame the cars...blame the gormless 'so that's what that button does' idiots who drive them. I honestly wonder about people who must drive 100's of km's without so much as looking at the pretty lights on their instrument cluster.

[Hitcher]

No different to the clowns who drive with their park lights on.

[Indiana_Jones]

Too much Hazard, not enough safety here...


<img src="http://seriouslycasual.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/safety-dance.jpg">

-Indy

[lankyman]

Because if you're bike breaks down it is easily enough pushed out of harms way. Cars not so easily, especilly if you are a 40 kg 4"9 women

[Swoop]

The F117 has them. This thread really looks like a "what bikes do not have them"...

[klingon]

Because if you're bike breaks down it is easily enough pushed out of harms way. Cars not so easily, especilly if you are a 40 kg 4"9 women

Well! I would never have guessed that from your username!

[MarkH]

I have hazard lights on my scooter and have used them a couple of times to warn approaching cars at the scene of a biker mishap (not me).

I would assume that a Goldwing would most likely not only have hazard lights but also a reversing beeper.

[Timber020]

The F117 has them. This thread really looks like a "what bikes do not have them"...

Looks like the twenty something bikes that I have owned and the few hundred I have ridden. Oh aside from the harleys if scumdogs accout is true. Should ride more modern bikes I guess!

[NZDan.gsxr]

Suzuki GN250 2004
Gsxr1000 2001
250 Bandit 1990
Sunny chinese scooter

None of these have 'em.

[bikerboy011]

Mine got it!

[Slyer]

If my bike had them I would never turn them off.

[Shadows]

I carry a road cone.....

I knew I'd seen you around somewhere before.

[Meanie]

I knew I'd seen you around somewhere before.

Ah yes, quite a resemblance to Maha, his better side too :rofl: