Use of horn

Originally Posted by Tildo

I use my horn to annoy drivers using mobile phone

That's what loud cans are for

Originally Posted by plowsie

I use mine when i can see someone is gonna so summit stupid. I think its said in the highway code that the horn is for use to warn other drivers of your prescence?

This is true. But it should state "To only be used when really really annoyed by someone".

I've asked Father Xmas for a Stebel Magnum...

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I use mine now then whilst commuting on the ring road.

More times than i can remember I have been sat in the left hand lane and people have started moving across. You cant go forwards, you can brake but not wuickly enough....you have to use your horn.

One time a van was moving over, I had looked for a way out, nowhere to go. Used the horn for a fairly long period, no response. Ended up banging on the side of the van at which point he swerved nearlly taking me off anyway.............Guy was so busy on his phone he was oblivious to everything around him.

[Paul the 6th]

i dont usually have time to use the horn unless I think someone is going to reverse into me or hasn't seen me etc?

Originally Posted by BluePete

If you have time to use your horn, there'e no drama. You have made the desicion not to take serious avoiding action and in effect, shout at the other road user instead.

BS. I'm perfectly capable of emergency braking with my right hand whilst hitting the horn button with my left.

I usually use the horn to warn other drivers *before* they do anything stupid. It's called 'anticipation' and comes with experience.

Oh, and I used it this morning alongside Mr Cnut In A Range Rover who was busy chatting on his mobile, on the North Circular.

I had a lorry pull across me this morning did he hear my horn, nope but he certainly felt my boot on his cab!

Originally Posted by wyrdness

BS. I'm perfectly capable of emergency braking with my right hand whilst hitting the horn button with my left.

I usually use the horn to warn other drivers *before* they do anything stupid. It's called 'anticipation' and comes with experience.

Oh, and I used it this morning alongside Mr Cnut In A Range Rover who was busy chatting on his mobile, on the North Circular.

Yep. All this "never use the horn, under any circumstances, it's always your fault if you have to" stuff is ******ks. If it were only possible to use it to antagonise other road users (rather than alert people to your presence, thereby preventing accidents), do people really think it would be allowed to be on a road vehicle at all, never mind required by law.

I've used the horn before when riding up the M4 on my way back from a Soho meet. So it was fairly late if not very early in the morning. The motorway was virtually empty. As I was passing a car in the middle lane (that's me in the middle lane) the car started to drift quite quickly into my lane.

I gave a good press of the horn. It was at this point that the driver woke up, over reacted with the steering wheel and brakes and ended up fish tailing along the motorway.

The driver just about managed to gain control before hitting anything.

After the initial annoyance, I had a little chuckle to myself.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

As for remonstrating, I find that a Renegade can with very little baffle in bouncing of the rev limiter and exploding next to the drivers window usually gives a good message.

I like that one too, but mines a fuel thats blown most of its packing out.
Soon to be bigger pipework too muahaha

Originally Posted by drefraser

By the way what do people on this org have against squirrels? We've got a hunter a killer and a flamer. Seems a tad harsh to me.

They're really f###ing slippy when dead. And irritating.

Don't think I've used my horn more than once, and that was the first day of SVdom and I, err, used an alternate method of turning off my indicator..

To be honest, I think the horn is a little embarrassing. Bring on Stebel Nautilus..