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Didn't You Hear Me?

Ineffective Motorcycle Horns
Posted November 12 2007 01:48 PM by The_New_Guy 
Filed under: Recreation & Daily Riding

Is This Thing On?

"MOVE!"  That's what I want my motorcycle's horn screaming in the head of  the driver in front of me.


Okay, fine, sometime's it's "STOP!," yelled at someone trying to turn in from a side street.  Regardless, the typical motorcycle horn is a pathetic toy.  I use my horn several times per day on my commute, mostly to make sure that drivers turning across or into my direction of travel have actually seen me.  We might as well be cranking bicycle bell horns as we cruise down the street for all the attention our horns get.  Sure, people do hear them (usually), but without the immediate awareness that the typical automotive horn generates.  Some bikes, like the new Victory Vision, have a great horn.  Heck, even Vento's 250cc Colt has a great horn.  So why do most bike's have the same old tech, innefective horns that have been used for the last 40 years???


Now I've got spilchis in my genektagazoint.  I'm a little verklempt.  Discuss amongst yourselves.

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