Gaaagh! Check yer indamicators!!

[scumdog]

OK, waiting to make right turn out of a side street in the Battlestar Galactica (T'bird) and saw shiney red sprots-bike heading down main street coming from my left, his left indicator was merrily blinking.

His body-language made me think he was not about to prak or turn left down the street across from me so I stayed where I was rather than pull out on front of said sprots-bike rider causing him to swerve/brake/fall off/crash and call me a blind effing cage driver or some other articulate gem..

Sure enough he went straight through and I followed him north, blinded by his incessantly blinking indicator, on the passing lane he caught up with a car, moved to the right lane (still with left blinker going for it) THEN looked over his right shoulder (to see what was about to hit him??) and carried on out of town into the distance - STILL with the infernal indimacator doo-dad flashing.

So people, spare a second to check your dash/green lights whatever every so often to make sure you don't do the same, it could save your life.
(And it won't effing annoy me)

[Usarka]

Always worth reminding people of that one.

Newbies - make it a routine. Cancel your indicator at first gear change after a corner (or any way that works for you).

[ManDownUnder]

LOL good call... and if someone comes towards you flashes the indicator once or twice then stops for no apparent reason... ffs check your own!

[vifferman]

Good post, Mr scumdog, Sir.
I (being the wonderful fella that I am), have developed an almost obsessive policy of cancelling the indicators after a turn, sometimes cancelling them when I've forgotten to indicate in the first place.
However, I must admit to riding down the street near where I used to work, which had about 6 or seven intersections at which I had right of way, cursing the silly car drivers that seemed to want to run me over, before realising I'd left my left indicator on when turning onto that street.

There used to be bikes with self-cancelling confirminators, what worked on a mercury switch or somesuch. And others (maninly scooters, I think) that had a very annoying beeper attached to the indimicators. Not a bad idea.

[Nagash]

See this sorta thing all the bloody time..

I pulled up next to a guy at the lights who i'd been following for a wee while with his indicators on. I politely and matter-of-factly mentioned to him that his indicators we on and he gave me the snotiest "I know!" I had ever experianced.

Bloody arsehole..

[scumdog]

There used to be bikes with self-cancelling confirminators, what worked on a mercury switch or somesuch.

Yes.
Those inferior Harleys such as CB and I own have just such a system, I doubt there's a better one. (so there).

[Maverick]

He wasnt wearing a Kilt was he?

[car]

have developed an almost obsessive policy of cancelling the indicators after a turn, sometimes cancelling them when I've forgotten to indicate in the first place.

Ditto.

There used to be bikes with self-cancelling confirminators, what worked on a mercury switch or somesuch. And others (maninly scooters, I think) that had a very annoying beeper attached to the indimicators. Not a bad idea.

The beeper, maybe, but I dislike self-canceling indicators. The mechanism can't always be right, but you can bet your ass that lazy tarts will rely on it; either they'll fail to indicate for as long as they needed to, or leave their indicator on waiting for the mechanism to make up for their inattention.

My first and second cars both lacked self-canceling indicators, and to this day I'm still irked by premature self-cancellation.

[Monsterbishi]

Something to reflect upon here also, is that I'm fairly sure my bikes aren't unique in respect to the flashing light on the speedo cluster that shows you when the indicator is in use.

If the red bike rider is not paying attention to that, betcha he's going to get the shock of his life when he misses the day his oil pressure light comes on or temp gauge goes off the clock

[99TLS]

have been guilty of this before, thought i cancelled it when i didnt actually its pretty easy to do

[jtzzr]

He wasnt wearing a Kilt was he?

have been guilty of this before, thought i cancelled
it when i didnt actually its pretty easy to do

I am also guilty officer , some good advice Scummy.

[MadDuck]

I have been also guilty of this.

Grandma went to turn right in front of me and just before I was about to shout out the abuse i noticed the indicator light flashing ...

[xwhatsit]

Yes.
Those inferior Harleys such as CB and I own have just such a system, I doubt there's a better one. (so there).

Any bloody chance you get, you rabbit on about your Harley and it's frigging indicators and side-stands! I've had it up to here!

You just start these threads to try and belittle us, don't you?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

So people, spare a second to check your dash/green lights whatever every so often to make sure you don't do the same, it could save your life.
(And it won't effing annoy me)

I know two people that are really bad at not checking that ah Gleyns

[vifferman]

Something to reflect upon here also, is that I'm fairly sure my bikes aren't unique in respect to the flashing light on the speedo cluster that shows you when the indicator is in use.

If the red bike rider is not paying attention to that, betcha he's going to get the shock of his life when he misses the day his oil pressure light comes on or temp gauge goes off the clock

Maybe like me he pays much more attention to what's going on around him than to the idiot lights. As for relying on the oil pressure light or temperature gauge to inform me the bike is short of oil (or haemoraging internally) or out of coolant, I think I'd know about well before the idiot lights did. One of the joys of motorbicycling is that it is so visceral: an experienced biker is in tune with his machine and feels that the tyres are a bit flat, or the chain is too loose, or the engine is hot.