Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip

Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 21 Feb 2015 13:37 #662259

79MKII Topic Author Offline User Love Them Kaws! Posts: 2494 Thank you received: 43	This is what I bought....it's so small I'm not sure how it's going to work. The Kaw List: Current: 79 KZ1000 A3 MKII, 78 KZ1000 A2, 78 KZ1000 Z1-R, 78 KZ650 SR, 80 KE175 Former: 03 KLX400SR, 99 ZRX1000, 82 KZ750 LTD, 80 KZ1000 A4 MKII, 80 KZ1000 LTD, 78 KZ1000 A2, 74 H-2 750 Triple, 78 KL250 Attachments:
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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 21 Feb 2015 14:44 #662263

650ed Offline User Posts: 15344 Thank you received: 2829	That's tiny! I wonder if you rode around with a gym bag full of them would it trip all the lights withing a 10 block area? I bet the truck that delivers them in bulk to the distributor never catches a red light! Ed 1977 KZ650-C1 Original Owner - Stock (with additional invisible FIAMM horn)
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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 21 Feb 2015 16:05 #662271

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We probably have a hell of a lot less traffic to worry about here and i get caught all the time - glad my town only has half a dozen lights and no going on Red here - some other states you can turn left on a red - right for the fellas on this post of course.
I just roll back a car length as there is nothing behind me usually and they go green in a couple of seconds - always works ,
Mick.

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1994 ZR750 Zephyr C4.

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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 22 Feb 2015 05:07 #662333

toolmaker Offline User Posts: 217 Thank you received: 19	Around here I have seen car drivers stop well short of the intersection and sit there oblivious for several cycles. Not much you can do, as blowing the horn won't work. I live near Portland, Oregon and my rider is a '76 KZ900 I bought new. I'm also in the process of restoring another one and a '73 Z1.
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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 22 Feb 2015 15:51 #662412

Zephyrrider Offline User Posts: 586 Thank you received: 50	Most car drivers here are ignorant assholes - standard horn is useless - i let em know though Mick 1994 ZR750 Zephyr C4.
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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 22 Feb 2015 16:11 #662416

turboking Offline User Posts: 631 Thank you received: 106	i use the side stand on the embedded trigger wire trick and have done so for years .....works for me.... 2005 Kawasaki mean streak 2000 325 H.P. mcXpress turbo Hayabusa 1979 kz 1000 mk II ATP turbo 1975 Z1 960 cc Mr. Turbo 1975 Z1 1428 big block ATP turbo 1976 Kz900 1103 cc ATP turbo 1985 GS 1150E 1983 GS 1100E 1997 Suzuki Bandit 1200S 2001 Kawasaki EX 500 Ninja 1972 Honda cb750 (836cc turbo)
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Article on Red Lights that Won't Trip 24 Feb 2015 21:56 #662696

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Just some insight on how the magnets work (from what a city planner told me) is that underneath the concrete there is an electrical circuit and to get the light to change you have to "trip" the circuit (electrical on your car/ all the metal interfere with the magnetic field of the current. The magnet just increases the bikes ability to disrupt that field. AND it picks up nails before they hit your rear tire

Keep it rubber side down everyone

Klx 110, TTr125, TTr250, 1982 kz750-N1 (Spectre), Xt-350 (soon to be the new home of a Kz550 engine

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