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Carbonbigfoot
| Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 01:58 pm: |
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I'm feeling creative... but I also don't want to duplicate anybody else's work. Has anybody here ever cracked into the left hand controls to see what it would take to do a time delay solenoid thingy that resets the turn signals after a set amount of time? R |
Hooliagn
| Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 02:08 pm: |
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I have....... My final decision was to buy a badlands self canceling turn signal unit. Install that under my CR "windscreen". Then, buy two of the Buell light flicker switches,(one for the left, one for the right) replace the turn signal switch on the left and add the flicker switch to the extra slot that's on the right. I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. |
Hooliagn
| Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 02:10 pm: |
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The Buell switches come as an assembly only and cost about $38 each. The badlands unit is about $70. |
Carbonbigfoot
| Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 02:19 pm: |
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Cool. Thanks! R |
Redbuelljunkie
| Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 01:37 pm: |
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Why would you want self-canceling turn signals? |
Carbonbigfoot
| Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 01:56 pm: |
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Cause I'm deficient. I ride around with the damn things on all the time... R |
Redbuelljunkie
| Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 03:15 pm: |
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That's a perfectly good reason to have them, then. I have been aggravated by the self-canceling signals on my XL's because I constantly found myself in the situation where they have canceled before I've actually made the turn. When I look down and see they've turned off I get miffed. |
Xl1200r
| Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 07:07 pm: |
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The self canceling signals that were on my 2004 XL didn't have a timer - they would cancel after the bike finishied the lean for the turn. That way, if you're sitting a red light for a long time, they didn't turn off on you. They worked perfectly pretty much all the time. |
Hooliagn
| Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 - 07:58 pm: |
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They always worked perfectly on my VRSCDX. The badlands unit works well for different situations. |
Redbuelljunkie
| Posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 07:24 pm: |
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All my XL's had signals that canceled after a certain distance was traveled. Sometimes they'd go off before the turn, sometimes long after- it depended upon when I engaged them and what speed I was traveling. It was frustrating to me because I never could time it right, Also, not having them together on the left handlebar was disconcerting, and there was no cancel button. I prefer Buell's traditional signal controls. |
Court
| Posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 07:30 pm: |
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All Buell S-2's have self canceling signals and 4-way flashers. |
Redbuelljunkie
| Posted on Sunday, March 08, 2009 - 07:32 pm: |
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I dig four-way flashers... every bike should have those! |