My horn is too small

[pzkpfw]

Hi,

A couple of times now, I've wanted to beep at some doofus in a car or van or something.

But I haven't because the horn on my bike sounds like something a 5 year olds' tricycle would have. [Darn embarassing when I first got the current bike and tended to hit it instead of the Indicator.]

My old bike (an RD250/350LC) had had an air-horn put on it by a previous owner. I liked that.

So my questions:
Is this "approved" by the general biking public?
If I put one on my NZ250 would I look like a poser?
Does anyone recommend something?

(I'm not looking for air-horns that play la-kook-a-ra-cha!)

Thanks.

Cheers,

[Colapop]

search the forum for horn or horns and you'll get some good suggestions.

[Sniper]

Thats errrr, something you should really not share on the site man. You can get pills to make your horn bigger, but I wouldn't know.

There have been a couple of threads on airhorns, do a search and you will find them.

[Colapop]

Like here
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...highlight=horn

[vifferman]

Some things you can do, if you don't want to spend too much money / go to too much trouble.
Check the contacts on the wires/plugs are clean.
Wind the little screw on the back of the horn out a little bit - this will make it louder.
Fit another horn of the same sort, and wire both horns through a relay to the battery (using a fuse, of course). This will be VERY loud if you do it right.

[SPORK]

The (in)famous Wari had a very similar thread I think. A quick search of "pea-nuss" reveals this to be the offending thread in mind. It's a goodun

[tracyprier]

Simple dual-note airhorns, nice compact sized compressor, $36.00 from Supercheap autos... go get 'em, highly reccomended

[oldrider]

Motu replied to an earlier thread about bike horns and he said that a small model Chrysler car (with which I am not familiar) had a very nice horn on it. Reminiscent to the car horns of the 1950's they were really smooth and loud. I have been making enquiries around about down here but so far have drawn a blank. The horns on Jap cars and bikes are pathetic. Cheers John.

[pzkpfw]

Sorry - I'd not noticed the search-forums thing before.

I'm off to SuperCheap* this weekend, so I'll take a look for the suggested item.

(*I have to "complain" anyway - the set of metric spanners I bought had a 9/16 mixed in...)

Cheers,

[imdying]

The electric horns are worth a look, slightly smaller than air horns. They're shaped a bit like a french horn, they'll have them for sure. The sound is plenty loud, and much like the noise one expects from an Italian cars horn. In fact, iirc it's the type of horn fitted to many Italian cars. I've had airhorns on a bike before, and while they were quite effective, I'd recommend the electrics ones over them if for no other reason than size. I don't think you'll be disappointed with the tone or volume. Happy buying

[SPman]

(*I have to "complain" anyway - the set of metric spanners I bought had a 9/16 mixed in...)

Cheers,

Well - it was SuperCheap.....

[Eurodave]

Thats errrr, something you should really not share on the site man. You can get pills to make your horn bigger, but I wouldn't know

Have you tried that vacuum pump thingy a "friend" told me about?

[Biff]

Motomail sell decent 'honkier' honkers.

[heavenly.talker]

Thats errrr, something you should really not share on the site man. You can get pills to make your horn bigger, but I wouldn't know.

There have been a couple of threads on airhorns, do a search and you will find them.

It's not the size of the horn that matters it's how loud and long it can go!

[Brian d marge]

both horns through a relay to the battery (using a fuse, of course). This will be VERY loud if you do it right.

Very important, switches can handle about 4 amp ( from memory ) , also Use the correct wire size for the Current,

or the smoke will escape causing the cricket to stop playing with itself .....and The driver of the SUV continues along the path of Dooooom

Stephen