klr's and traffic lights

[Alan L Henderson]

Joe Tittiger wrote:

> I thought my 900 pound gold wing was are pain the arse when it would > not trip one of those tripped traffic signals. > > The KLR is going to cost me a ticket some day as its measely 400 > pounds doesnt cut it with the lights in the peoples republic of > Florida.

There are a number of ways vehicles are detected at light controlled intersections. The familiar inductive loop, microwave detectors and optical detectors that use cameras. I haven't seen any pavement embedded weight switches in years. There may be more methods that I don't know about. In other words, there is no one way to solve the problem. Alan Henderson A13 Iowa

[J Fortner]

On 3/9/06, Larry W Menefee wrote:

> > ...at worst the chin bar will hit the ground first and you will SNAP YOUR > NECK.But if you don`t plan on crashing then you might not need a helmet at > all.

I'd like to see the data supporting this? How many folks necks are snapped each year from a flip up chin bar failure on a helmet? JF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]