Now I have seen it all......

[fab4272]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GREEN...Q5fAccessories

[Burnout]

I would like two - so I can aim one in either direction.

[superpursuit83]

I thought they changed the lights for you. They are just a lump of metal that helps the sensors detect the bike. Not a bad Idea really?

[Poorboy_racer]

The roadside traffic lights in the UK (the ones with cameras on top) used to give priority to emergency vehicules. They could sence the flashing lights. Before long everyone found out if you flashed your headlights at the right intervals the lights would always instantly change to green. Ok so long as someone coming the other way was not doing it as well.

[uranium_death]

If you hang a piece of poo on your vehicle, you are also guaranteed to get a green light.

[XDV800]

Nothing would me off more than rolling up to a turn right light, then having to sit through an extra set of changes until a car came behind and activated the damn signal prompter. Any other bike rider would know this happens rarely but it happens.
I don't believe it till i see it works but good theory.

[rag top]

Originally Posted by uranium_death

If you hang a piece of poo on your vehicle, you are also guaranteed to get a green light.

haha-but will it buff out?!?!?!?

[BLDNUT01]

the emergency vehicals use them i wouldn,t like to get caught with 1 they work more so in the city

[XRSIKS]

im not in that much of a rush to get to work....

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by fab4272

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GREEN...Q5fAccessories

Hate to break it to you sport, but they actually work. I have noticed on my bike that some lights take ages to change whereas they wouldn't when I'm in my car.

Originally Posted by BLDNUT01

the emergency vehicals use them i wouldn,t like to get caught with 1 they work more so in the city

They are a different unit. The ad doesn't say the device will make the light turn green before you get to it, just cuts your waiting time down if your bike doesn't trip the sensor.

[onfire]

Turning Left.. please, just up onto the gutter and down the other side. End of story.

[Falcon Coupe]

Originally Posted by Peuty

Hate to break it to you sport, but they actually work. I have noticed on my bike that some lights take ages to change whereas they wouldn't when I'm in my car.



They are a different unit. The ad doesn't say the device will make the light turn green before you get to it, just cuts your waiting time down if your bike doesn't trip the sensor.

A common thing on bikes not tripping the censor, i used to wait for 3 full changes at the lights near my place, if no cars came up behind me to set it off i'd just go.

[gcg2503]

Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

A common thing on bikes not tripping the censor, i used to wait for 3 full changes at the lights near my place, if no cars came up behind me to set it off i'd just go.

To any police officer reading this post Nick is merely jesting. He would never run a red! :1syellow1

[asusdragon]

just thinking for bike isnt that why they put the straight white line near the intersections to tell bikers where the sensor is???. i have never riding a motor bike before so not sure how or if it works just putting what i have heard out there

[fab4272]

Originally Posted by Peuty

Hate to break it to you sport, but they actually work. I have noticed on my bike that some lights take ages to change whereas they wouldn't when I'm in my car.



They are a different unit. The ad doesn't say the device will make the light turn green before you get to it, just cuts your waiting time down if your bike doesn't trip the sensor.

Maybe you are right, but I tend to be a little skeptical. The ad also says there is not enough metal in the frame to trip the sensor. If that is so, what is that huge hunk sitting inside the frame then?

[the_scotsman]

Good eBay vid showing how to make one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GAacxGiV4A

Originally Posted by Poorboy_racer

The roadside traffic lights in the UK (the ones with cameras on top) used to give priority to emergency vehicules. They could sence the flashing lights. Before long everyone found out if you flashed your headlights at the right intervals the lights would always instantly change to green. Ok so long as someone coming the other way was not doing it as well.

lol...yep, I remember everyone doing that...lol

[superpursuit83]

Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

A common thing on bikes not tripping the censor, i used to wait for 3 full changes at the lights near my place, if no cars came up behind me to set it off i'd just go.

Thats what I did, I figured if you dont trip the sensor then the camera does not know your there...lol

[last fairlane]

I thought sensors in OZ were tripped by preasure on a strip below the bitumen
I can see a problem with bikes but try driving a truck where the sensors are only 1.8 metres wide alright for a car but a truck sometimes straddle them so doesnt trip the arrow and you cant wait for a car to do it for you
also Ive seen cars sit back about 2 metres from the lights and wait and wait
thanks John

[Zed7fiddy]

Great idea if it works! nothing worse then sitting at a light in a QLD Summer in full riding gear!

I'm going to test this theory out with the DIY video!, now just to find some neodymium magnets

[RG]

Originally Posted by fab4272

Maybe you are right, but I tend to be a little skeptical. The ad also says there is not enough metal in the frame to trip the sensor. If that is so, what is that huge hunk sitting inside the frame then?

He's right, that huge hunk is not enough to trip the sensors.

Nowhere near as much metal in that "huge hunk" as what there is on a car.

[xy500]

Originally Posted by asusdragon

just thinking for bike isnt that why they put the straight white line near the intersections to tell bikers where the sensor is???. i have never riding a motor bike before so not sure how or if it works just putting what i have heard out there

no the straight white line is to tell you to stop before the straight white line... like a stop line. If you cross it its technically considered running a red light as once you cross the white line you've legally entered the intersection.

[Peuty]

Originally Posted by last fairlane

I thought sensors in OZ were tripped by preasure on a strip below the bitumen

Nope.

[fpvluver]

wow thats a great idea .... how long untill ppl catch on

[Cooper69S]

Originally Posted by xy500

no the straight white line is to tell you to stop before the straight white line... like a stop line. If you cross it its technically considered running a red light as once you cross the white line you've legally entered the intersection.

my sister-in-law's ex used to always stop with his front wheels past the white line because he reckoned the sensor was under the line. I've also heard of people being done for running a red light for doing just that.

must admit though that I always thought it was a pressure switch under the bitumen. there's usually a visible cut-out section there...

[Airmon]

I think you might have read it wrong. They're for Bikes that have trouble tripping the sensors at lights. They wont make the light turn green, just let it know you're there and eventually turn it green. Alot of Bikes getting around that are mostly alloy and not very magnetic, I know a few people who have have had this problem.
Don't know if this particular device works but would be handy.

[aussieford]

Do these come with side curtain airbags?... because I think there might indeed be a reason for traffic lights. Heh