 red light changer - where to put it?
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I picked up one of these things Amanet Red Light Changer recently. Seems like a good idea and not too expensive. However, I can't seem to find a good place to put it. Instructions say to attach it to a 1" diameter flat piece of metal. Can't seem to find one of those on the bottom of the bike other than the oil filter. Any ideas?
'011 Cranberry Red Speedmaster, Long TORS, Bellmouth, K&N, SignalMinder
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Use a piece of angle iron bolted to the center stand mount.
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Should be Riding
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Maybe just to the foot peg crossmember.
Let us know if the thing actually works.
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hell, where i'm from, it's legal to run a light if safe and you've waited a 'reasonable amount of time,' by which i mean whenever i ****** want. i'm such a hard ass biker! naw, i'll go as soon as i know i've been skipped and it's safe.
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I picked up one of these things Amanet Red Light Changer recently. Seems like a good idea and not too expensive. However, I can't seem to find a good place to put it. Instructions say to attach it to a 1" diameter flat piece of metal. Can't seem to find one of those on the bottom of the bike other than the oil filter.
Any ideas?
Well Rob, I'm certainly glad to hear you purchased one of those magnetic flux field red light changers manufactured by the Amanet Company of Poughkeepsie New York and NOT one manufactured by the Acme Company of Walla Walla Washington!
Ya see my relief in knowing this all stems from a guy I once knew who purchased one of those inferior magnetic flux field red light changers made by the latter mentioned company, and he NEVER had ANY positive results using his.
Say! Maybe YOU know this guy TOO, huh?! Here's a picture of the guy using that inferior made Acme unit JUST before it all went south on him...
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Please let us know if this thing works. There's one redlight that I hit in Littlestown, PA every now and again. The road sensor is old so it doesn't pick me up, so in the middle of the night I'm left sitting there for ages.
Unfortunately the cops are real aholes (small town, nothing else to do), and I'm certain they'd write me a ticket if I went through the light even when I'm the only one on the road. I've acutally had to put the kickstand down, run over and hit the pedestrian crossing button, then run back to my bike real quick just to get the light to change.
2005 Green America
Fishtail Exhaust, Whitewalls, ISO Grips, Light bar with Relo Turnsignals
"...To them, I'm just a screaming ball of noise."
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Please let us know if this thing works. There's one redlight that I hit in Littlestown, PA every now and again. The road sensor is old so it doesn't pick me up, so in the middle of the night I'm left sitting there for ages.
Unfortunately the cops are real aholes (small town, nothing else to do), and I'm certain they'd write me a ticket if I went through the light even when I'm the only one on the road. I've acutally had to put the kickstand down, run over and hit the pedestrian crossing button, then run back to my bike real quick just to get the light to change.
Hmmm, might need to invest in a slingshot for the pedestrian button. Or maybe you could just chunk a rock at it like ole Ernest T Bass from the Andy Griffith show. 
I've got one of those lights on my commute home from work. I pulled up to it the other day and there's a cop sitting across the intersection, Damn! So I turned right went a half block, turned left in to a lot, back on the main drag and rolled back through a green light. son of .....
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Yep Mike, as the old sayin' goes: "Two wrongs don't make a right...BUT three rights DO make a left!" And the following is what I can't understand... I can't understand that there appears to ONLY be a few states and/or municipalities in this nation by this time that can seem to understand and have made laws which govern this issue and which allow a motorcyclist to make these left turns IF their vehicle fails to trigger the green arrow or green light going their way after one sequence of light changes IF all is clear???!!! (...what?!...is there NO freakin' COMMON SENSE possessed by either law enforcement, the lawmakers OR for THAT matter, the general freakin' public AT ALL anymore in this freakin' country??????)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dang !! An extremely strong, patented Neodymium-Boron-Iron magnet. This could be a good way to pick up all the H-D bits & pieces that fall off on the road... 
Blue/White 2007 TBA, Thruxton needles, Unifilter, AI removed, Polaris Bellmouth, Bubs, Nology Coils/wires, Lightbar, Ricor Intiminators, Hagon Nitros, Tall Sissy Bar w/luggage rack, Dart flyscreen & Lowers. 130 Mains, TrueGel Battery MG12-BS.
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I can't understand that there appears to ONLY be a few states and/or municipalities in this nation by this time that can seem to understand and have made laws which govern this issue and which allow a motorcyclist to make these left turns IF their vehicle fails to trigger the green arrow or green light going their way after one sequence of light changes IF all is clear???!!!
We should protest. We'll call it: Occupy the Left-Turn Lane
2005 Green America
Fishtail Exhaust, Whitewalls, ISO Grips, Light bar with Relo Turnsignals
"...To them, I'm just a screaming ball of noise."
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Good one, Sean! The only problem I can't see with that is that these "Occupy fill in the blank" movements have gotten the reputation of being filled with a bunch of "losers", and so because I've always felt that those stuck driving cages and have never ridden a motorcycle in their lives are the REAL losers, somethin' like this COULD BE a mite confusin' to any of the aforementioned idiot law enforcement officers who would be SOOOO freakin' stupid to issue a traffic violation to any motorcyclist who after sittin' for a complete traffic light cycle and then proceeding through an intersection once it's safe to do so!!! (...let ALONE all those stupid freakin' lawmakers throughout this country who through their OWN stupidity continue to fail to pass a simple little freakin' COMMON SENSE law which allows this, and thus making the sale of these "magnetic flux field" contraptions a needless expense!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Just don't mount it anywhere near your ECM (computer) - and that includes just putting it on your seat while you're figuring things out.  Personally I doubt the magnetic field would be strong enough from 6" above the road and through at least 1" of seal to have much effect.
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I just buy my boots a half size larger and put a roll of dimes in the toe. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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I made my own several years ago. It didn't work.  (but it DID stop me (DEAD) from continuing to enter a parking lot that had a "tire puncturing device", to make sure you ONLY entered there. Couldn't budge it EITHER WAY! It took three BIG fellows to push me away from that)  PLEASE let us know how it goes. 
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So erle, even with that bad experience you had with yours, it sounds as if you're still interested in becoming a member of...ahem..."The Change of the Light Brigade", huh?! GET IT?! Instead of "Cha rge" I said "Cha nge" there!!!  (...oh never mind then...they can't ALL be knee-slapped, ya know!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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It's hard D, I mean, without a audible drum roll 'n' all!
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Yeah! I guess I should'a added THIS at the end of that, huh!!!... 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I have this little 3" long and 1/8" square super strong magnet that I put on the bottom of my frame for the same thing. Once I attached it, or should i say, it attached itself, the sucker will not move and ain't going anywhere. It actually works great. I have a troublesome intersection and this cured the light trigger problem.
Darned if I can remember where I got it though. Cost about $12 I recall though.
A word to the wise is not necessary. It is the stupid ones who need the advice.
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