Pass button?

[steved]

I have a button on my left-hand grip (1989 Honda CBR250R) that says 'Pass'. It has been suggested that this is a highbeam flashing button but it didn't do that on mine. Does anyone have any idea what this button does?

[TonyB]

It's for the NOS.

Seriously tho, it should switch the high and low beams on at the same time.

[notme]

Try a liberal dose of contact cleaner sprayed into the button....failing that take it apart and clean the contacts....or you may even get some life out of it by pressing it hard enough to break thru the layer of oxidization that's on the contacts. Almost every second hand bike i owned had this problem....the button is used so rarely by most riders that the contacts go bad!

[Hitcher]

Does anyone have any idea what this button does?

Pass.

It should act as a headlight flasher.

Sounds similar to a switch in a mate's Lada that turned on a blue light on the dashboard. Other than that, we never found out what else it did.

[ManDownUnder]

In many countries, the signal you want/are about to pass someone is to flick your full beam on for a second or two... that button does that (should put both beams on at the same time if you're on dip at the time)

If it doesn't work I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I don't think anyone in NZ would know what the signal meant anyway and would only get pissed off "at the idiot blinding them".

I would get your high beam checked though - if necessary
MDU

[notme]

In many countries, the signal you want/are about to pass someone is to flick your full beam on for a second or two... that button does that (should put both beams on at the same time if you're on dip at the time)

If it doiesn't work I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I don;t think anyone in NZ would know what the signal meant anyway and would only get pissed off "at the idiot blinding them".

I would get your high beam checked though - if necessary
MDU

OOps....yeah first DO make sure your highbeams work via the normal high/low switch....:slap:

[vifferman]

Or... it could be the same as the PASS button on the A1GP cars that liberates the extra 20% of power at full throttle.

[ManDownUnder]

Pass.

It should act as a headlight flasher.

Sounds similar to a switch in a mate's Lada that turned on a blue light on the dashboard. Other than that, we never found out what else it did.

Was it a nice blue light? I mean - that's extra you know... those are the one made by the Siberian Prisoners. They're the only ones that got the special blue light installation training

[WRT]

On the aprilia its also the trigger for the laptimer, when you have that mode selected on the dash . . .

[ManDownUnder]

On the aprilia its also the trigger for the laptimer, when you have that mode selected on the dash . . .

I don't seem to have a lap timer on the RF...

[Slingshot]

Does anyone have any idea what this button does?

Mine flashes the high beam and opens my garage door.

[WRT]

Nah, my RF didnt have one either ;-)

Man, I loved that bike (altho have to admit I could say that about all the bikes I have owned), nice to ride, comfy for touring, good fairing on it, and a look like no other bike on the road. Same colour as yours too . . . *sigh*

[vifferman]

Was it a nice blue light? I mean - that's extra you know... those are the one made by the Siberian Prisoners. They're the only ones that got the special blue light installation training

But only during the first few days of the month, and never on Fridays, when the light was merely bunged in the hole, but not connected to anything.
But at least they met quota, even if the cars fell apart when shipped, and lacked unimportant things like wipers, gears, carburettors, drive belts ...

[Paul in NZ]

I have a 'Pasta' button on the Moto Guzzi and a faster thingy on the other side but I think it's broken as it seems to be stuck on louder only...

[el milanes]

I have it too!! maybe it was compulsory to have it in Japan ??

I find it useful at night to put the lights on full, you need just one finger on and it's easier to remember to take it off when another car in front is approaching.