Indicators - a legal requirement?

[rosie631]

Are you trying to re-register an old bike or are you asking re a current road legal machine? And if so is it a Harley?

For my harley. I just like the stripped down look, and thought if it was possible, I would get rid of them.

[rosie631]

Rosie. There are lots of discrete ways of having indicators on the bike. Should be able to do it without spoiling the look.

Yeah, I know. I had some nice little LEDs on the other bike. Was just trying to avoid the expense. Have a list a mile long of stuff I want to change. Will have to add indicators.

[Molly]

Be sure to shop around. I bought a nice set of mini indicators from the Triumph dealer a few years ago for about a third of the price asked in the chopper shop! Packaging was different but it was EXACTLY the same product.

[YellowDog]

Rosie. There are lots of discrete ways of having indicators on the bike. Should be able to do it without spoiling the look.

Those integrated LED ones are pretty cool.

[Ixion]

My father went to a lot of effort to make the trafficators on our A30 blink....not as easy as you think.

Good old electromechanical - coils of wire and moving parts you could see.

Did they go up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down ? Once per second or whatever the redulation rate is . That would have been funny to see!

[gubbsi]

theres a youtube vid of a 675 thats converted the running lights into indicators, he left the indicators on anyway but its a good idea (probably quasi legal though)

[Motu]

Did they go up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down ? Once per second or whatever the redulation rate is . That would have been funny to see!

No,he made them stay up and the light blink.I guess he must have made a separate circuit for the light,with a flasher unit.Considering it was in the late '50's when flashing indicators were the new fangled thing,he was pushing the boundaries of his knowledge.All I know is he was pretty proud of his flashing trafficators.

My Minor had trafficators - you had to smack the B pillar to make them go up.....and kick the firewall when the fuel pump stopped.There was a much more physical involvement with vehicles in those days.

[pete376403]

I had a 1976(? - the very first model, anyway) IT400 which was road legal when first registered. Yahama obtained an exemption to the indicators requirement for that model, and the last time I looked at the Wof regulations on-line, that exemption was still in force - if the bike had been continuously registered. Once the registration lapsed, if re-registered later, the exemption would not apply as it was no longer a 1976 (or whatever) model.

[tate35]

Hey Rosie631, fair enough question one I did not know. Interesting though, kind of makes sense that in order to get your bike wof, you need indicators

[Motu]

Yahama obtained an exemption to the indicators requirement for that model, and the last time I looked at the Wof regulations on-line, that exemption was still in force -

Several models of enduro and trials bikes had indicator exemptions - because enduro and trials bikes had to be road legal in those days.There was also a daytime exemption for lights,which has been dropped for some time.It's one of those regs that has just stayed around (like the Escort reverse fog light switching),there is no point revoking it as those vehicles just fade away.If someone fully restored a TY175 and wanted ride it on the street,maybe it would be enacted - but for some clown with a beat up XR250 who can't be bothered getting the indicators working - sorry,it's a fail.

[98tls]

Fwiw over the years ive had a few different sets of aftermarket Led indicators,some of them are just rubbish and unless your hell bent on being arse raped by Mrs Jones in a Corolla then avoid at all costs.Bright is good.

[ducatilover]

Incidentally Trafficators are still legal, though not person in a hundred nowadays would have a clue what they were.

But the little light must work.

I'm not sure about the metal white and red hand that used to stick out of the window of trucks.

I've done work on cars before trafficators were around have done work on cars with trafficators, they are cool. Silly flappy buggers

[awayatc]

Fwiw over the years ive had a few different sets of aftermarket Led indicators,some of them are just rubbish and unless your hell bent on being arse raped by Mrs Jones in a Corolla then avoid at all costs.Bright is good.

yep.......
I'd be looking for bigger brighter ones myself as well.....
Riding at night without indicators......?
No thanks...

[ready4whatever]

saw some tiny indicators in the bikeshop. small enough to be useless and hidden, still legal. i think

[varminter]

Indicators? I thought they were called confirmators, mostly seen in use as they are (sometimes) flicked on when the numptie is halfway round the corner anyway.