Indicators can confuse the issue

[Maha]

Since when do you overtake Maha?

Well well well look who it is......
Ms Kitty enters with a left hook.....
To answer your question though....its been known......

[Kittyhawk]

Well well well look who it is......
Ms Kitty enters with a left hook.....
To answer your question though....its been known......

Exit stage right: the handicripple is still not riding as the cripple part has got the better. Looks like not till towards the end of this year maybe then I can ride, however morphine is my best friend

[crash99]

Yeah indicators are not to be trusted and yes, they do sometimes cause confusion. At certain times I often try to make eye contact with other drivers and offer a hand signal as well. Seems to work, as I often get thumbs up or waves.

And we really like waves!

Reckon you're onto it Owl - the more confirmation you get from a cage driver the better and eye contact is the only way to be absolutely sure they saw you (not necessarily that they realised you were there though!) I reckon the only way I've survived 30 odd years of riding is that I treat everyone else on the road as an idiot who is likely to and most probably will do anything at anytime.
Ride safe.

[crash99]

When riding, trust other peoples indicators at your peril.
Rick.

Absolutely rickstv - A Harley dude went round a roundabout at Paraparaumu couple years back with his indicator on by mistake and got wiped out by a car.

[davereid]

Absolutely rickstv - A Harley dude went round a roundabout at Paraparaumu couple years back with his indicator on by mistake and got wiped out by a car.

Harley have got the indicators perfect. I haven't worked out how the self cancelling works, but its bloody magic, it almost seems to know when I want to turn the indicators off.

The BMW on the other hand turns them off either just before I make the turn, or waayyy late.

The kawasaki, well they dont turn off on their own, so I ride along stabbing the cancel button from time to time, out of habit.

[avgas]

When riding, trust other people at your peril.
Rick.

fixed it.................

[avgas]

Since when do you overtake Maha?

Tis' springtime. Crazy things happen in springtime.

[DEATH_INC.]

My cousin was indicating to turn right into a side road. The oncoming car starts indicating left so my cousin starts turning into the side road and the oncoming car plows into his rear passenger door. The oncoming car was turning into the driveway just after the intersection and had just indicated really early. The insurance company ruled against my cousin as he had failed to give way to a car travelling straight. Beware of indicators... but more wary of people who don't indicate at all!

One of the company utes was written off in much the same way a few years back....our delivery girl was indicating a right turn into a sideroad, and an old woman coming the other way indiced left and pulled into the turning lane, so our girl starts to pull across the road, then the lovely old girl decides she wants to go straight on now and pulled back out straight into the side of the ute.....

[Wren]

My moto is " Don't trust anyone on the road" and has stood me in good stead for years,feel free to use it anytime.

[R-Soul]

I know that someone on KB was selling indicator buzzers, but I can't find them or their website anymore.

I tried searching for indicator buzzer, but got nothing useful.

Does anybody know?

[KiWiP]

Well they're called indicators for a reason. They 'indicate' a direction to be taken sometime in the future. If we want to rely on them they need to be renamed 'promisicators' in that "I promise to turn exactly where I'm indicating" (so should probably be a big arrow attached to a contract)

I have been out with many a girl whose eventual action was not as initially indicated