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Is it just me, or are Savage horns garbage?
03/30/16 at 11:14:09
 
Looking at the RSD, I just thought of something. My horn is barely powerful enough for anything. Could it be going bad, or do they all suck?
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Re: Is it just me, or are Savage horns garbage?
Reply #1 - 03/30/16 at 11:54:46
 
Key on.
Stand near horn.
Push button.
Note hickey on leg, near horn.
Clue.
Horn sucks.
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Reply #2 - 03/30/16 at 12:25:41
 
Yeah, many bikes have lame horns.  Do a search on here and check out the dual horn setup some of us have done.
Here's mine:  http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1436647368/10
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Reply #3 - 03/30/16 at 12:55:32
 
In a Real emergency, you Can scream. I'm very loud. You Can rap it up, flip the kill,, BANG,   Seems parking lots left me most ill at ease, but the
I'm turning left across your invisible butt
left me seriously worried.
My approach to getting their attention was weaving and flashing the headlight high and low. Some have called the wisdom of that into question, but I never saw anyone interpret it as
Ok, you can go.

The ironically named Hurt report shows what p percentage of injuries to the head are on what part of the head.
Not sure where I saw it, but Where we are, in traffic, can make us more likely to get turned across.

If you're leading Or trailing a string of traffic, you're more likely to be hit. The driver sees a long line coming, doesn't want to wait, tries to make it. Tag, you're it.
You're Last in a line. The driver is watching bumpers. The last Car in the line is Time to gun it..

YOU need to be either tailgating and near the passenger side or on the line, weaving a bit, and Ready to use the last car in the line as a shield.

Or, back off far enough to Allow safe traffic flow.

Watch heads, and front tires. The Top of a front tire shows more than the center.
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Reply #4 - 03/30/16 at 15:31:20
 
the horn SUX ... tried to use it today and it just laughed at me.  Almost lost the fight with 3 different vehicles today, 2 left turners in intersections and one right turner from a side street. Oh and a f@ckIng tailgater nearly took me out when I had to hard brake a lane changer, dipped into right LP3 from left LP1.  Shocked

Not sure WTF is up with people today, but they're NOT seeing me.  Angry
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Reply #5 - 03/30/16 at 15:45:47
 
Text them..
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Reply #6 - 03/30/16 at 16:19:49
 
justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/30/16 at 15:45:47:
Text them..






THAT's a huge problem here in the metro

makes hulk want smash windows  Angry
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Reply #7 - 03/30/16 at 16:25:57
 
Any time one of my buddies sees me on mine I'll find a text on my phone, when I get off, that just says "meep, meep."
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Reply #8 - 03/30/16 at 16:52:56
 
cheapnewb24 wrote on 03/30/16 at 11:14:09:
...My horn is barely powerful enough for anything... do they all suck?
YES!

I moved the wires from the stock horn to a horn relay, with a #10 wire from the battery to the relay to a pair of 136db "highway" car horns:

I don't use the horns often, but when I did it, it sounded like a Caddy bearing down on someone.

However, the stock. Savage horn was far better than my Vespa.  That horn was a:
-- meep -- "Excuse me, but could you please try not to kill me, if it is not too much trouble?"
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Reply #9 - 03/30/16 at 17:52:17
 
The horn is bad and sounds like something for a moped.  Does anyone know of a better horn that is a simple install, no relays or extra wires.
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Reply #10 - 03/30/16 at 18:10:25
 
justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/30/16 at 11:54:46:
Key on.
Stand near horn.
Push button.
Note hickey on leg, near horn.
Clue.
Horn sucks.


Time to change JOG's meds  Undecided   NOW he's fantasying getting a "motorcycle horn" hickey...... Roll Eyes
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Reply #11 - 03/30/16 at 18:15:21
 
I wonder if mine is even weaker than what it's supposed to be.  Grin

Since I live out in the country where people don't honk their horns much, I doubt I would know to use the horn if my life depended on it. I'd just get silently run over. Grin  Maybe a "whoa!" or something at the most... Then, after it's all over, I'll think, "Darn it! Should have used the horn!"

Isn't it true that people out in the country don't use their horns much compared to city people? Lack of city driving and congested traffic? Over the years I haven't really gotten out as much as some other people.
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Reply #12 - 03/30/16 at 18:17:11
 
old.indian wrote on 03/30/16 at 18:10:25:
justin_o_guy2 wrote on 03/30/16 at 11:54:46:
Key on.
Stand near horn.
Push button.
Note hickey on leg, near horn.
Clue.
Horn sucks.


Time to change JOG's meds  Undecided   NOW he's fantasying getting a "motorcycle horn" hickey...... Roll Eyes


Grin

I didn't get JOG's joke before. Thanks for making it clear.
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Reply #13 - 03/31/16 at 08:18:46
 
Yup; horn sucks. Not something we need much in the hinterlands but on that rare occasion it would be nice to have one that worked.
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Reply #14 - 03/31/16 at 08:21:19
 
I just yell,...   it works better.... Huh
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