bentwheel wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:I can't believe no one has given up the best answer to this old problem yet. It is so simple you will wonder why you haven't thought of it before. Lord knows you had the time to think about it when you were sitting through so many non light changes. You don't have to buy anything, the part you need is already attached to your Savage. Instead of getting pissed until you finally flip out waiting at a traffic light try this next time. Reach around with your left toe and pull out your side stand and touch it down. Click, light change. The only time this doesn't work is if the sensory loop is buried too deep, then there is nothing that will work.
so then why didn't the light change right away when i put the stand down to get off machine so i can run over and push walk button. ??? .
also the sensor is further back than first in line, so if traffic is clear just go, if theres traffic, it will be just a moment till a cage comes along behind you and triggers it when he passes over it.
you see i've ridden for over 30 years now and had lots of time to think this one through. 8)
personally i like paladins suggestion best, just lay the machine over. but then again you would have to do it right over the sensor. three of four car lenghts back. they place the sensor that far back so when you pass over it the timing box has time to react.
dont believe me, just go out look where the line in pavement is. it's not placed under the first car in line.
so the only thing that really works is civil disobiedence. run the darn thing.