Traffic light activators

[roy.nz]

Okay time for my rant.......

Does any one els have the same problem???????
The problem is those stupid lines at the traffic light that activate to give you green to go when you approach or stop at them,Im on the shore and at a few intersections i know if there is no cages around at the same light im gonna have to either jump the red, do a dangerous u-turn or go the long way hame ( no problems with that unless its like midnight and i have work the next day and i want to sleep).
So is there any other way to activate them i've tried late hard braking to give me more force on the front and that doesn't work tried approaching at different angles, still no luck.
So anyone got other ways of getting them to work.

[pzkpfw]

You've worn the light-activator knobs off the bottom of your footpegs.

[davereid]

Its legal to "jump the red". If traffic lights don't change, you may treat them as faulty and treat the intersection as uncontrolled. I have been to court over this, its a complete defense to jump crook lights. Following the road code, you are entitled to treat the inntersection as uncontrolled, and apply the right-hand rule. Of course, other road users may not know the lights are dodgy, so they might not be applying the same rule, so use yer brain, don't assert right of way, just ignore the faulty signal when you can do so in complete safety.

[FJRider]

I've never had that problem... in Alex'...

[Big Dave]

Put the bike on its side stand for a second. 95% effective.

[hayd3n]

this has been mentioned before

as you come up to a set of lights you will see a figure 8 cut in to the road .
ride in to the centre of this and you will
9/10 of the times activate the switch

[jtzzr]

Put the bike on its side stand for a second. 95% effective.

So what sets them off , I`m guessing metal ( not Metallica either).

[rainman]

So anyone got other ways of getting them to work.

Buy a cruiser?

[Big Dave]

So what sets them off , I`m guessing metal ( not Metallica either).

yeah - creates a disturbance in their force.

[The Lone Rider]

Theres also electronic things you can get fitted to a bike to activate them


I think there's even a few that claim to change the lights in your favour?

[hayd3n]

the magnetic field created by alternator i think i normally just rev a little and they change to green(whilst parked in the centre of the figure 8)

[blairh]

I've never had that problem... in Alex'...

Do you *have* traffic lights in Alex?

There are plenty of posts on KB about this, apparently you can get magnets to stick under your bike which will solve the problem. I should look in to it as I have problems with this almost every day...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=81301
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=68596

[Duke girl]

Get off your bike walk over to the pedestrain crossing of the lights and push the button that lets the pedestrains walk accross safely. I use to do that years ago when I was out riding back home in OZ late at night when there wasn't any other traffic around. You had to do it as the traffic lights over there have cameras on them so there was noway you could attempt to go thru on a red light. I found by the time you got back on your bike they would change to green. Give it a try next time and see if it works.

[hayd3n]

here yas go!!!!!!!!!
check out this linky
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...23&postcount=4

[phaedrus]

Okay time for my rant.......

Does any one els have the same problem???????
The problem is those stupid lines at the traffic light that activate to give you green to go when you approach or stop at them,Im on the shore and at a few intersections i know if there is no cages around at the same light im gonna have to either jump the red, do a dangerous u-turn or go the long way hame ( no problems with that unless its like midnight and i have work the next day and i want to sleep).
So is there any other way to activate them i've tried late hard braking to give me more force on the front and that doesn't work tried approaching at different angles, still no luck.
So anyone got other ways of getting them to work.

get an old shagged computer hard drive and crack it open (ask your friendly techno-weasel for a free one), there are two really strong magnets inside. Put one under the bike and you're sorted.