Turn off your Indicators!

[sugilite:Me]

Guilty as charged!
I've just got back to roadbikes after many years of racetrack only riding and I've caught myself leaving my indicators on a few times. Racebikes don't have indicators lol
Seriously, it can be so dangerous to ones health to forget.

So I'm really working on it and hopefully I have it sorted now.

Cheers for the thread squeek.

[The_Dover]

I got the shits when I rode all the way to Taupo before the first track day wondering why all the right turning drivers I was giving way too weren't turning in front of me.

The shop had connected the fuckin front indicators on my bike in reverse so that they were flashing diagonally. I was indicating right from behind but left from the front.

Nice. I think they were trying to kill me.

[Ixion]

Nah, that's for Eytie bikes, old Pommy ones and some cheaper oriental ones.

Ask ANYBODY about later model H-D indicators and they'll tell you the same as I have.

Old Pommy bikes have the most reliable sort of indicators there are. Never forget about them, never wear out or need new bulbs. Not too good at night though. Damn, why don't they put reflective tape on gauntlets any more.

[Kendog]

I used to be a chronic 'flasher', always leaving my indicators on, but after copping a lot of crap from the hubby about it, I now am a recovering flasher. I have a habit now of riding along, especially after having indicated, and just pushing the indicator button, just to make sure it's off. Easy enough to forget them though!
Mrs KD

[James Deuce]

Old Pommy bikes have the most reliable sort of indicators there are. Never forget about them, never wear out or need new bulbs. Not too good at night though. Damn, why don't they put reflective tape on gauntlets any more.

They do. I have a pair of Orinas with reflective tape on the outside two fingers.

[XP@]

Reminder Buzzer - if left for 25 flashes
http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/r...app_mcycle.asp

How to make your own buzzer (detailed instructions)
http://www.rattlebars.com/mtz/buzzer.html

Blinker buddy
http://www.blinkerbuddy.com/

[rogson]

Forgetting to turn-off your indicators is potentially hazardous to your (and your bikes) health - especially in NZ with the stupid give-way when turning left rule.

I have a couple of "back-to-biking" friends I ride with who regularly leave their indicators on. I have told them numerous times about it but it is obviously something that takes some time to become a reflex action - especially for someone who has only driven a car for the previous 20+ years and never had to worry about it.

One of them had an accident a month or so back on his brand new $20,000 bike when a vehicle coming toward him turned across his path at an intesection and he put the bike down in the process of avoiding him. No permanent damage other than to his confidence perhaps.

He wasn't really forthcoming about what happened, and has never really blamed the other driver - so I suspect his left indicator was on and the driver thought he was going to give-way before turning left.

[Lou Girardin]

Anorak moment here.
Case law says that a driver can't rely on another vehicles indicators, he has to ensure that the vehicle is actually turning.

[rogson]

Anorak moment here.
Case law says that a driver can't rely on another vehicles indicators, he has to ensure that the vehicle is actually turning.

I'll my friend that - I'm sure it will make it him feel a lot better about what happened ( ).

[Sycophant]

Whenever I see a car ahead of me waiting to turn right across my path I always check my indicator, just to make sure I am not accidentally indicating a left turn.

Although I still have my moments - last week I was going over the harbour bridge when a bike went past in the next lane and the rider made a little flashing motion at me with his hand - I had my right indicator on, presumably since my last lane change a few hundred metres back.

[pritch]

One of the books I have here points that you are supposed to check your mirror every few seconds while riding in town and recommends that you jab the blinker cancel switch with your thumb at the same time. Seems like a good idea. Sadly my arthritic thumb doesn't entirely agree.

[sunhuntin]

ive got into the habit of hitting the indicator switch to cancel as i strighten up. i ride sometimes with an experienced rider, and he often leaves his on. if i can i over take him and flick mine on to let him know.

a guy here hooked up things that beep with his indicators....each side has a different pitch.

[Quartida]

Of course it's not just bikes that do this. I'm always amazed by the number of cages that drive along happily with one of their indicators on for ages. Surely the incessant ticking noise would drive one mad? But apparently not.

Why don't bike indicators automatically turn off? Surely there must be some mechanical way of making it do so just like in a car? I mean, I understand that cars have to turn more than a bike to get around a corner, and the turning is what makes the indicator turn itself off, but surely there's some boffin somewhere who could do this for a bike? Right?
(OK, I'm such a girl. I know nothing about these things.)

[Skyryder]

Anorak moment here.
Case law says that a driver can't rely on another vehicles indicators, he has to ensure that the vehicle is actually turning.

Common law as in common sense says that too. I never pull out until such time the driver has commenced the turn.

Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Of course it's not just bikes that do this. I'm always amazed by the number of cages that drive along happily with one of their indicators on for ages. Surely the incessant ticking noise would drive one mad? But apparently not.

Why don't bike indicators automatically turn off? Surely there must be some mechanical way of making it do so just like in a car? I mean, I understand that cars have to turn more than a bike to get around a corner, and the turning is what makes the indicator turn itself off, but surely there's some boffin somewhere who could do this for a bike? Right?
(OK, I'm such a girl. I know nothing about these things.)

They have them. Not too sure of the 'off' switch but they use to be mercury switches.

My bike does not have them. Not the sort of thing I would go out and change. Not something I forget very often although it does happen. Usually caused by a distraction just after the turn.

Skyryder



Skyryder