Garage doors?

[Nilo]

Am interested to know what those of you with remote controlled electric garage doors are doing in the winter.
Do you stop your bike, take off a glove, unzip your jacket and fumble for the remote?
or
Do you have a cable running down your sleave, attached to your watch strap and still have to take a glove off because the button gets lost in all the waterproffing?
or
have you mounted the remote on the bike in a waterproof housing and you ride straight in to the garage?

[Slingshot]

Hook the remote into your high beam switch...flash the lights and the door will open.

[megageoff76]

I just keep mine in the left hand pocket of my jacket. As im riding up the street i unzip the pocket, and then press the button as im coming up the drive way.
By the time im at the top the door is open and I ride straight in.

[Aitch]

Press the button in your pocket. No need to take anything off, fumble for anything, easy as pie!

[The Tazman]

Hook the remote into your high beam switch...flash the lights and the door will open.

You clever bugger :yes: When I eventually get mine sorted that sounds like a plan was it quite easy or do you need a degree in electronics!!! :D

[Slingshot]

You clever bugger :yes: When I eventually get mine sorted that sounds like a plan was it quite easy or do you need a degree in electronics!!! :D

Here's a thread I prepared earlier:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=17984&

[xwhatsit]

My remote, just like the garage door it controls, is ancient, ancient, ancient. Therefore the remote is bloody huge (it uses a couple of AAs!), along with the button on top. I keep it in the boot and it's perfectly easy to use with a pair of gloves on.

I don't see what the big deal is about getting off your bike, you have to get off it anyway in about three metres and twenty seconds. But then again my bike is considerably lighter and easier to push into the garage than some of yours.

[Busy]

you lucky lucky buggers, I have to do a 8 point turn, get off the bike, unlock the garage, and wheel the bike in backwards

[peasea]

you lucky lucky buggers, I have to do a 8 point turn, get off the bike, unlock the garage, and wheel the bike in backwards

Whats a garage?

[yod]

my door came with key ring opener (as well as the normal type), much like a vehicle alarm controller, i just press the button as im rolling down the street :yes:

[1vanvan1]

I just have my garge door remote on my jacket pocket and push it throught the jacket when i need to open it. Works well,

[Swoop]

It sits in the top pocket of the jacket. Coming up the road, approx 100yds away, press button. Hey presto!
Scared the crap out of a mate, who had parked his bike close by, when the door started to open and he hadn't heard my bike coming up the road:rofl:

[Pumba]

when the door started to open and he hadn't heard my bike coming up the road:rofl:

You need louder exhusts:lol:

mines in my top pocket, generally just hit the pocket and most times the door opens

[orangeback]

http://zx-10r.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22139&highlight=garage+door
:apint::Pokey::apint::Pokey::apint::Pokey::apint:: Pokey:

[heyjoe]

You guys need need one of those fancy new commercial security tags that you just have to wave in front of the reader device and its security code activates and unlocks the door for you. No button pressing with thick gloves and pockets required. Only thing is I don't know how one gets one of these. I guess it won't be cheap.

[bmz2]

buy a push button switch wire across the remote button connection and mount switch on the bike , do not wire across the high beam switch :doh: unless you place a relay in it ,due to 12v on the high beam switch, contact me if you wish at GDR garage doors,098325893:doctor:

[Nasty]

Two different remotes .. one I had in my top jacket pocket .. just pushed it and the door opened.

The new one is attached to my keyring .. and I just press it and it works too.

[BigG]

Just get a key ring remote save all the fuss I got one that does me gate and door.:niceone:

[imdying]

Couldn't wire it into the highbeam on the sv, due to the way they're wired together inside the switchgear, that would've made it on with the high beam... not so good for the transmitter.

[skidMark]

Hook the remote into your high beam switch...flash the lights and the door will open.


Here's a thread I prepared earlier:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=17984&


you clever son of a...

i think i love you mate....:love:

[skidMark]

Just get a key ring remote save all the fuss I got one that does me gate and door.:niceone:

if anybodys interested in this idea best place ive found is jaycar electronics. on khyber ass road in newmarket...they have other branches too.

$50-$60 for a 4 button remote, but it will not work with never garage doors as they are rolling code, they will not work if it's rolling code. so don't even bother if thats what you have.

SM

[skidMark]

I just keep mine in the left hand pocket of my jacket. As im riding up the street i unzip the pocket, and then press the button as im coming up the drive way.
By the time im at the top the door is open and I ride straight in.


i have an uphill driveway...have to be like 2 feet from the damn thing for it to work lol

works from ages away when open but whenv it's closed the metal garage door makes life hard....

anybody know how to rectify this?

sM

[bmz2]

normal cause of short range of remotes is baby monitors [phillips type] 40mhz ,merlin 230t or the 430r operate on this range these machines are 6 to 10 years old, upgade machine to 433mhz but it cost, rolling code system.

[vifferman]

About 100m from my house, I just push the little garage door opener button located on my right-hand switch block, and the door's nearly open when I get to it.

[Fatjim]

i have trained the children to run and push the button when they hear dad coming home. The wifes been known to do it as well although the training was a bit harder to achieve.

[Ewan Oozarmy]

i have trained the children to run and push the button when they hear dad coming home. The wifes been known to do it as well although the training was a bit harder to achieve.

Snap (ish) - the missus generally hears me coming and opens the door for me. I don't think I'll let my 2 year old play with the remote fob yet.

If she's not in then I just hit the button on the fob, which is on the same key ring as my bike keys, and therefore in the ignition.

[klingon]

you lucky lucky buggers, I have to do a 8 point turn, get off the bike, unlock the garage, and wheel the bike in backwards

You've got it easy! I have to do a 53 point turn, get off the bike, find my keys, unlock the front door of the house, go in and turn off the alarm, return and unlock the garage, and wheel the bike in backwards. Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill both ways.

[90s]

i have trained the children to run and push the button when they hear dad coming home. The wifes been known to do it as well although the training was a bit harder to achieve.

Mine's controlled by the throttle.
Giver her a few big blips and the garage door opens.

Because the wife's heard me and lets me in.
(I dare not call her "well-trained" Fatjim!)

[Tank]

I come up the drive and hit the horn. Wife and young son look out window and wave.

I hit horn again and point to the garage.

They wave again.

I honk longer - point voilently to the door in a repeating action.

They smile and laugh at me.

I get off bike, go to door front door - its locked.

Go back to bike, turn off keys, take keys out, return to house and enter garage via front door.

Open garage, return to bike, start, ride up hill, park.

Go upstairs ask why they didnt hit the button.

They laugh and tell me its because its raining.

Repeat each rainy day until wife and kids tire or watching you sitting in the rain.

[skidMark]

normal cause of short range of remotes is baby monitors [phillips type] 40mhz ,merlin 230t or the 430r operate on this range these machines are 6 to 10 years old, upgade machine to 433mhz but it cost, rolling code system.


hang on are you saying baby monitors affect if or are you saying they are designed to only work short distance...theres alot of metal tubing etc in the garage also...if i extended the wire for it aeriel say 7-8 metres, is it going to be useless and loose the signal over such a long piece of wire?

cheers: mark

[bmz2]

dude i fix garage doors everyday ,baby monitor are the biggest problem for short range of remotes , if you extend the aerial you may lose the range as well , what is the make and model of the door opener, you may be able to tune the remote a little better, tube and wires in garages have very little affect on the remotes, also outsde power transformers can affect remotes , also video senders

[Disco Dan]

dude i fix garage doors everyday

Thanks again for your help!


I was thinking about doing that remote mod thing and hard wiring it into my bike... but then how would I get into the garage to press the button on my bike? :whistle:

[bmz2]

Thanks again for your help!


I was thinking about doing that remote mod thing and hard wiring it into my bike... but then how would I get into the garage to press the button on my bike? :whistle:

a second remote to keep in the house,

[captain_andrey]

I used Velcro tape to mount the door opener on the bike's bar (the flat bit in the middle). If you mount it close to the windscreen (if you have one) I found its not affected by wind or rain at all while riding. And with Velcro its really easy to take it out and put it back in.

[kevfromcoro]

Came home one late night,, and the power was off.
Course i didnt have a front door key.
Had to sit outside in the cold and wait to get in.....

[Matt_TG]

LOL Kev... I haven't ever considered that may happen, I might have to keep a key somewhere too.

[Lteejay]

Easy enough - sits in pants pocket, press as coming down footpath - hey presto. Not always sitting the right way though, so can be difficult.

[MaxCannon]

I have my remote in my tank bag which I can't unzip with gloves on
so I have to stop, take off a glove, unzip the bag, find the remote, press the button, wait for the door to open and then roll inside.

If it's raining and the mrs is home I just toot the horn till she opens it from inside for me.

She always says "this is the last friggin time...." and yet she does it again the next day.

[klingon]

Easy enough - sits in pants pocket, press as coming down footpath - hey presto. Not always sitting the right way though, so can be difficult.

This also applies to remote controls :innocent:

[crshbndct]

Repeat each rainy day until wife and kids tire of watching you sitting in the rain.

(Corrected for spelling)

Wives and kids actually tire of this?

I usually just hit the call button on my phone and ring up and tell her i am almost home (mounted a mike and speaker in my helmet, which goes into my phone, which doubles as music player)
when i get there i have garage open and a cup of tea waiting for me.

p.s. handy tip: bluetooth head phones/mike work wonders when mounted into a helmet.