Traffic light activators

[roy.nz]

Okay time for my rant.......:2guns:

Does any one els have the same problem???????
The problem is those stupid lines at the traffic light that activate to give you green to go when you approach or stop at them,Im on the shore and at a few intersections i know if there is no cages around at the same light im gonna have to either jump the red, do a dangerous u-turn or go the long way hame ( no problems with that unless its like midnight and i have work the next day and i want to sleep).
So is there any other way to activate them i've tried late hard braking to give me more force on the front and that doesn't work tried approaching at different angles, still no luck.
So anyone got other ways of getting them to work. :doh:

[pzkpfw]

You've worn the light-activator knobs off the bottom of your footpegs.

[davereid]

Its legal to "jump the red". If traffic lights don't change, you may treat them as faulty and treat the intersection as uncontrolled. I have been to court over this, its a complete defense to jump crook lights. Following the road code, you are entitled to treat the inntersection as uncontrolled, and apply the right-hand rule. Of course, other road users may not know the lights are dodgy, so they might not be applying the same rule, so use yer brain, don't assert right of way, just ignore the faulty signal when you can do so in complete safety.

[FJRider]

I've never had that problem... in Alex'...

[Big Dave]

Put the bike on its side stand for a second. 95% effective.

[hayd3n]

this has been mentioned before

as you come up to a set of lights you will see a figure 8 cut in to the road .
ride in to the centre of this and you will
9/10 of the times activate the switch

[jtzzr]

Put the bike on its side stand for a second. 95% effective.

So what sets them off , I`m guessing metal ( not Metallica either).

[rainman]

So anyone got other ways of getting them to work.

Buy a cruiser? :laugh:

[Big Dave]

So what sets them off , I`m guessing metal ( not Metallica either).

yeah - creates a disturbance in their force.

[The Lone Rider]

Theres also electronic things you can get fitted to a bike to activate them


I think there's even a few that claim to change the lights in your favour?

[hayd3n]

the magnetic field created by alternator i think i normally just rev a little and they change to green(whilst parked in the centre of the figure 8)

[blairh]

I've never had that problem... in Alex'...

Do you *have* traffic lights in Alex? ;)

There are plenty of posts on KB about this, apparently you can get magnets to stick under your bike which will solve the problem. I should look in to it as I have problems with this almost every day...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=81301
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=68596

[Duke girl]

Get off your bike walk over to the pedestrain crossing of the lights and push the button that lets the pedestrains walk accross safely. I use to do that years ago when I was out riding back home in OZ late at night when there wasn't any other traffic around. You had to do it as the traffic lights over there have cameras on them so there was noway you could attempt to go thru on a red light. I found by the time you got back on your bike they would change to green. Give it a try next time and see if it works.

[hayd3n]

here yas go!!!!!!!!!
check out this linky
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1694823&postcount=4

[phaedrus]

Okay time for my rant.......:2guns:

Does any one els have the same problem???????
The problem is those stupid lines at the traffic light that activate to give you green to go when you approach or stop at them,Im on the shore and at a few intersections i know if there is no cages around at the same light im gonna have to either jump the red, do a dangerous u-turn or go the long way hame ( no problems with that unless its like midnight and i have work the next day and i want to sleep).
So is there any other way to activate them i've tried late hard braking to give me more force on the front and that doesn't work tried approaching at different angles, still no luck.
So anyone got other ways of getting them to work. :doh:

get an old shagged computer hard drive and crack it open (ask your friendly techno-weasel for a free one), there are two really strong magnets inside. Put one under the bike and you're sorted.

[Nagash]

As mentioned above, the simplest method i've found is stop right in that square thing, directly over the centre line of the 'activator' and just give a rev of the engine.

Seems the big spinning pieces of metal create a magnetic force which sets off the lights. It's worked every time for me.

[Spyke]

when coming upto the pressure sensors or the magnetic ones just brake late and hard stoppping quikly on the sensors. works for me :Punk: plus one wheel action is cool and smart!!!:jerry:

[hayd3n]

when coming upto the pressure sensors or the magnetic ones just brake late and hard stoppping quikly on the sensors. works for me :Punk: plus one wheel action is cool and smart!!!:jerry:

they :weird:are not pressure activated :weird:

[nigel]

There's a coil in the ground that magnetic objects can induce a current in, which is why magnets (and presumably revving the bike) work.

Wikipedia's page on inductance is violating their own guidelines of "must be able to be understood by a lay person", but here's a good article, including a specific example using traffic lights:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/inductor.htm
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/inductor3.htm (traffic sensors page)

[hayd3n]

There's a coil in the ground that magnetic objects can induce a current in, which is why magnets (and presumably revving the bike) work.



well done nigel!!!!!!!!!:woohoo::2guns::ride::yeah::drinkup:

[Devil]

Take note of the exact location and contact the council. They can have the sensitivity of the sensor tweaked so it's more likely to pick up a bike.
You'll need to be very explicit.

There are a couple I run into as well, I just haven't got around to doing anything about it yet.

I've tried the sidestand thing and it hasn't worked for me.

[slimjim]

yup by second light change..fuck it ride through them with care..

[DougB]

There is another thread running now on this forum. I posted this message on it:- Tonight on a USA site a poster stated that the only way they could get these loops to work was to attach a magnet to a boot. When over a loop just put your magnetic boot down.