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I installed the HORN TRIGGER several years ago as its tuff finding the horn in a hurry. In your natural grip, your thumb is always on the horn. Available in both chrome and black. Pretty cheap too.
I have it on both of my bikes and would not go without....Great safety addition.
By the time you need to use a horn it is too late. Just ride up beside of em and shoot em in the face With your water gun..
If you wait until an accident is imminent, a horn is useless. It is probably also too late for the brakes to be helpful.
However if you remain aware of your surroundings, possibly even anticipate cage driver's reactions to stimuli affecting them, a horn can sometimes prevent bad things from happening.
For example:
When approaching a side street, driveway, or parking lot from which a cage is waiting to pull out; the noise offered by a horn may alert the cage driver of your presence
and prevent them from pulling out. Or it sometimes can help prevent the dreaded left turn it front of a scooter.
Or at times when, due to traffic, you find yourself trapped in a 'blind spot' a horn may alert the cage driver to your presence.
Of course any cage driver's reactions are really just to prevent them from receiving criminal or civil penalties. But sometimes that helps.
These examples are all based on the logic that sometimes cage drivers can look us the eye and not realize we are there, but they may hear us.
At least that has been my experience in over 50 years of daily, year around, driving.
No I haven't driven daily, year around, for 50 years, but most of my driving during that period has been on 2 wheels. A benefit of living in the desert.
I think the last time I used my horn was when I pulled alongside a young lady at the stop sign after leaving the gas station. I honked until she looked at me as I slowly pointed towards her open fuel door and closed it while smiling at her.
I installed the HORN TRIGGER several years ago as its tuff finding the horn in a hurry. In your natural grip, your thumb is always on the horn. Available in both chrome and black. Pretty cheap too.
The P spec cop bikes have the best horn button, when I cloned my 03 to an anniversary edition, the only part of the cop package I left on the bike was the left side controls, it is very much like my rice bikes
QUOTE=Neggy ZRXOA 5248;19671482]The P spec cop bikes have the best horn button, when I cloned my 03 to an anniversary edition, the only part of the cop package I left on the bike was the left side controls, it is very much like my rice bikes[/QUOTE]
The P spec cop bikes have the best horn button, when I cloned my 03 to an anniversary edition, the only part of the cop package I left on the bike was the left side controls, it is very much like my rice bikes
I think the last time I used my horn was when I pulled alongside a young lady at the stop sign after leaving the gas station. I honked until she looked at me as I slowly pointed towards her open fuel door and closed it while smiling at her.
For some reason, I find it difficult to locate the horn button without "eyeballing" it. Must be an old age thing. As a former pilot, *****, switches, trim tabs, controls, etc were easy to find....repetition, muscle memory and practice. Since I rarely use my horn, it's difficult to find in an instant. Therefore, I created a hack to help locate the general area of the horn button. See pic below. It's essentially a small round piece of plastic attached with two sided tape. I used a paper hold punch to get the exact size. Not sure how long it will last, hopefully long enough to develop muscle memory. Very similar to what manufacturers do to identify the F and J keys on a keyboard (little raised dashes).
Semper Fi
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I go for muscle memory as you mentioned. But oddly STILL have to regularly practice going for the horn. Must be working since the last 2 times I needed the horn, the auto response (muscle memory) worked WELL.
I may very well get 1 of "them there" buttons.
Also sending this to a few friends I know that may like it.
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