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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 08:29 PM
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Oh and my bike is 700 pounds- 900 with me on it . If they can't make a sensor for that then it should be on a timer until they figure it out.===== Bastards.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by hoofnhog
As soon as I recognize that I'm not gonna trip the light, I just treat it like any stop sign....simple
Yeah but you live in Maine. There's nothing up there.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 10:05 PM
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This has happened to me several times. I will usually only wait one extra cycle of the light now. My question is, how would a cop know if you had been sitting there for a couple of cycles anyway, unless they are off the side of the road watching. If they are going through the light process themselves they will have passed through already. I am just waiting to get pulled over for running a red light. It is coming, but better than sitting there all day.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 10:16 PM
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I just wait 'til it's safe to go and run the red arrow...no sense making the poor saps in their cages that are behind me suffer. In employing this method during the last 36 years, I've never been given a ticket or even been pulled over.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 10:16 PM
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Just call the jurisdiction that maintains the signals. They are required to adjust the sensors to pick up motorcycles. Log the date you called.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 10:20 PM
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I've found that getting in the center of the lane works here.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 10:21 PM
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Hey a few years ago I read about a guy that was marketing a red light changer. He used a powerful strobe like they use on the emergency vehicles. You simply approach the red light, activate the strobe, a sensor at the intersection detects the strobe and flips the light.

Well, it was kind of a funny story, he got busted, arrested, thrown in jail. When he faced the judge, the judge was so angry he threw the book at him. Can't remember what he got but pretty sure it involved jail time.

So, don't do that. Zeus out.
 
Old Apr 16, 2012 | 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Bellefourchian
The stoplight at the bottom of Main Street in Deadwood is hard to trip.
Crap there was light there? Opps...
 
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I just look both ways & run the sonofabitch.
 
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I treat the as a stop when I can, but the light by my work is on a busy street and hate having to turn right to go down a block just to turn back again. I have ordered one of these and hope it will work.
 



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