My first expierence of biking on the road was my CBT. The only problem I had, was leaving the indicators on. So bad that the instructor actually said that he was going to fail me, if i left them on one more time. Move forward 6 years, and I am still bloody useless at remembering to turn the little blinking beggars off, but getting better. then I bought a bloody bike with the reminder light ON THE TANK !!!!! How blinking useless is that ??? SO I have spent the pricely sum of £3.50 and rigged up a system that goes 'BEEP' everytime they flash. Admittedly it sounds like a truck backing up, but hopefully it will help me to remember. Just a pair of Piezo buzzers off Ebay, wired them up to the indicator warning light. Need a pair , as they are polarised unlike a bulb. Therefore need one for left and one for the right. Thought might have to put a diode in, but not needed. Just trimmed insulation on wire to the wee bulb, and soldered on. Glue gun used to fix them to underside of the tank cowl thingy. Not road tested yet, but are quite loud, so should be able to hear them ok, as road speed won't be that high as I pull away from a junction or just after pulled over / in. The snow it currently halting a road test!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-24V-95D...hash=item5b116e4df4:m:mQGHcC1kZo9Qbq3S2-owQAw
Don't think so, well not aftermarket. Would have to be a modern electical system to handle such complexity, not old school America electrics. I have seen a buzzer that sounds after a certain length of time for sale, but thought i would try this first. like simple solutions.
Nice little job - my Bonnie had a beeper for the indicators option on the Acumen alarm it came fitted with. Started beeping after so many flashes with an ascending tone. Turned it off in the end as it drove me mad. My CBT instructor told me the best way not to forget to turn them off was to check the indicator switch as you pull the clutch in.
Can you please draw a diagram where you connected the buzzers to and the where the earth goes to Sorry unable to make it out in your pic I like what you done and want to do the same as i often leave the flashers on Many thanks Will be using this on my 2013 america Keith
Easy enough. The two wires going to the indicator warning lamp, stripped about 5 mm length of insulation off of them. Didn't cut them just stripped back a length. Then take the red from one buzzer and the black from the other buzzer and soldered them together, then soldered both these to one of the feed wires, then repeat for the other two wires from the buzzer.
Went out for a bit of a soggy foggy run today. As a first test it was very succesful. Could here them easily up to 40mph and had a laugh when my pal on his America LT pulled away from the cafe and left his indicator on !!! Never once left my indicator running and even my two pillions could hear them easily (Pillion'ed seperately, not some crazy up ride !!!). For the pricely sum of £3.50 and less than an hour in the garage, a nice simple solution. For some reason they have a slightly different tone each, so I could even tell if it was the right (deeper) or left (higher) indicator that was flashing, nice little bonus. Probably due to the glue gun blobs I used to attatch them to the underside of the tank binnacle.
