Knightrider down...ish (NEED A BIGGER HORN)

[KnightRider]

I feel a bit stupid posting this as it was such a minor accident that it probably doesnt its own post. Essentially I was waiting behind a luton van at the barrier to my firms underground car park when the driver decided to slam it into reverse and drive over me! I was positioned about 2-3 meters behind him, slightly to the right so that I could move passed him if need be and despite my sounding the horn and waving at him wildly he still managed not to see or hear me, personally I dont think he looked.

There isnt a huge amount of damage to the bike. He has scratched a load of paint off the front bikini fairing, scratched indicators, front brake lever, bar end, wing mirror, crash bung and exhaust. He is insured so hopefully this will all get sorted. Luckily there is no damage to me apart from a soar leg.

Could've been a lot worse so I am quite happy. The one thing that I do now want to do is replace the horn on the bike with something a little more audible. The standard horn is pathetic and it is no wonder that he didn't hear it. If you have any recommendations then please let me know.

Jon

I'd go to the doc's re: the leg. It might not hurt now, but might be worse in a few days. Also, the threat of a PI claim can be a wonderful incentive for them to hurry up if they drag their feet. Any witnesses/did the driver accept liability? Sorry to hear about your off and hope you get it sorted.

[KnightRider]

To be honest the leg really isnt anything and I am fairly sure that it will be okay by this evening - if it isnt I will get it looked at.

The driver has admitted full responsibility, I also have a couple of witnesses and CCTV footage. I have spoken to the company and it looks like they are going to process it without a problem.

Fingers crossed,

Jon

[Shellywoozle]

Sorry to here this, bugga.

I would still go docs with leg and have some pain at least albeit fake. My other half had a car accident were someone went in the back of him, little damage and she said she was at fault. In the end the insurance paid out a small amoutn and wrote his car off, leaving him car less and had to spend £1000 to get a car anywhere like the one before.

He now wishes he had claimed for his neck which hurt, getting money back that way. All he had to do was report it to Police and go docs, then sit on it and wait incase he needed it.

You never know what their insurance company will say or do and you don't know what your leg will feel like once bruising comes out. I just broke my arm and felt fine when I did it, couldnt understand why it wasn't working but I but that down to my blonde streaks in my hair.

Upto you but I hope it gets sorted really quickly got ya.

Shell

Hopefully it's all sorted soon for you mate.

Originally Posted by KnightRider

Could've been a lot worse so I am quite happy. The one thing that I do now want to do is replace the horn on the bike with something a little more audible. The standard horn is pathetic and it is no wonder that he didn't hear it. If you have any recommendations then please let me know.

Jon

The comments I had about the horns on my bike at the AR were along the lines of "those are proper horns!"

I have 2 stebel magnums mounted to my pointy, each giving 139dB(A) at 4inches (in theory that's 142dB(A) at 4 inches now. I also this week just added some nice airhorns I found, but I have yet to wire the compressor up to the horn switch to find out how effective they are (in combination with the magnums).

So for those that have heard my horns, it's about to get even louder

The magnums BTW, were £15 each at Halfords when I bought them, but they were doing a kit of 2 for £20 in my local Halfords last time I was in there.

If you want one, fair enough, easy job (I recommend putting a relay in, but you don't HAVE to), but if you're doing a twin setup like mine, you'll need a relay and careful attention to wiring detail (the wire from relay to each horn, and then horn to negative has to be the same length - otherwise the horns won't work - wave syncrhonisation due to electron speed).

HTH

[Stingo]

Yes - unlucky, fella.

I've recently fitted a stebel magnum - very easy - straight forward swap although I've bolted the new one in a different place.

No more neep neep

just HONK!!HONK!!

Originally Posted by Stingo

Yes - unlucky, fella.

I've recently fitted a stebel magnum - very easy - straight forward swap although I've bolted the new one in a different place.

No more neep neep

just HONK!!HONK!!

But you've only fitted one, that's just not good enough.

From conversations I've had (sketchy memory now), but double the audio source (ie, two of the same horn, instead of one), and you increase percieved sound pressure by 3dB(A). Sound pressure is a log scale, so 2dB(A) is twice as loud as 1dB(A).

So, if my memory serves me rightly, my horns are 6 times louder than yours Stingo.

Then I went and added airhorns...

EDIT: If you run the stock horn, and the Stebel Magnum, you get an interesting effect known as "frequency beats" which gets more attention than a single tone horn. Note, this effect isn't done just by havving two horns, its the individual frequencies that count.

Dude, really sorry to hear that. Is the bike a wright off? what a dumb ass driver. Someone wrote a letter in RIDE this month about rubbish OEM horns. I think they mentioned fitting one of the ones mentioned in this post.

Hope you are back on the road soon chap. Hasn't been a good few days for the TVSF has it. You and steve down whats going on.

[KnightRider]

Bike is okay, minor scratches only as he didnt actually drive over it he just hit the front of the bike and knocked me over!

Going to get some big horns as nobody seems to hear the stock horn.

[Stu]

http://www.motrax.co.uk/index.php?pa...product_id=570
Motrax pair for £10 local bike shop?
I put a halfords £10 one on my SV, Thinking of the above for my ZX7R.
Baph's set sounds good, but if I can avoid wireing in a relay etc. I'll go for the easy option anyday.