Best alternative LOUD horn?

[Deleted account 191119001]

Easy as, where is my coat.............. however when tightening them Soundbombs onto their brackets make sure they are mega tight and loctited, you do not want it jumping off the bracket in between the forks, how do I know.............

 

[Morety]

LoL! Yes, seconded. It's amazing how easily they slip round if not F-ing tight! I used two nuts, one to act as a locknut and some large washers bearing onto the bracket.

 

[Deleted account 191119001]

LoL! Yes, seconded. It's amazing how easily they slip round if not F-ing tight! I used two nuts, one to act as a locknut and some large washers bearing onto the bracket.

If only I knew then on that Swiss motorway, lucky day though, cars where slowed to crawling space due to a breakdown..................

 

[Delboy777]

I see Nippy sells the Sound Bomb for the 1250gs for £35 which isnt bad i suppose.

 

[Myke Rocks]

Best Alternative to a Loud Horn

I suggest looking further ahead, and presuming everyone out there is trying to kill you.

On a personal level, any horn fitted to a vahicle I own is blown once a year, for MOT.

The original horns fitted to my (early) Bmw 1200rt are superb, but unused.
Myke

 

[Morety]

I suggest looking further ahead, and presuming everyone out there is trying to kill you.

On a personal level, any horn fitted to a vahicle I own is blown once a year, for MOT.

The original horns fitted to my (early) Bmw 1200rt are superb, but unused.
Myke

What, like the woman who stepped out 5 yds in front of me this evening? Had I been looking further ahead at the time, she would have been sporting a Bridgestone Mohican! Just managed to avoid her, and then she had the cheek to remonstrate and wave her arms about at me

A good horn is a must, not a nice to have. They may be only used a small number of times in any year (probably two or three times with me) but that makes it all the more reason to make sure that if they're needed, that they're effective. You can ride defensively and be an advanced rider, but there will be a time when you will be glad of that horn for sure besides MOT time.

 

[Delboy777]

What, like the woman who stepped out 5 yds in front of me this evening? Had I been looking further ahead at the time, she would have been sporting a Bridgestone Mohican! Just managed to avoid her, and then she had the cheek to remonstrate and wave her arms about at me

A good horn is a must, not a nice to have. They may be only used a small number of times in any year (probably two or three times with me) but that makes it all the more reason to make sure that if they're needed, that they're effective. You can ride defensively and be an advanced rider, but there will be a time when you will be glad of that horn for sure besides MOT time.

A good advanced rider will make good use of his horn when the situation demands it. Its not just for the myopic idiots who step off the pavement while texting on their fuckin phone !!


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[wileeeeeey]

A good advanced rider will make good use of his horn when the situation demands it. Its not just for the myopic idiots who step off the pavement while texting on their fuckin phone !!


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I only use the horn to be polite. The rest of the time I use the Akra. Full system could still be louder.

 

[Delboy777]

If only I knew then on that Swiss motorway, lucky day though, cars where slowed to crawling space due to a breakdown..................

You use sound bomb mini ? Is it as loud as peeps are saying ?


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[Morety]

A good advanced rider will make good use of his horn when the situation demands it. Its not just for the myopic idiots who step off the pavement while texting on their fuckin phone !!


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Precisely. No phone involved in the making of this particular report though. Just a complete lack of care/intelligence.

 

[zoltan]

I suggest looking further ahead, and presuming everyone out there is trying to kill you.

On a personal level, any horn fitted to a vahicle I own is blown once a year, for MOT.

The original horns fitted to my (early) Bmw 1200rt are superb, but unused.
Myke

My 2005 RT had 2 horns...

 

[Morety]

I saw a bull with two horns the other day. Apparently in Switzerland they're not allowed horns, only cowbells.

 

[philjs]

Another vote for Denali sound bomb

The Denali split sound bomb fits very neatly and is by far the loudest bike horn I've ever had!

 

[Micky]

I suggest looking further ahead, and presuming everyone out there is trying to kill you.

On a personal level, any horn fitted to a vahicle I own is blown once a year, for MOT.

The original horns fitted to my (early) Bmw 1200rt are superb, but unused.
Myke

Totally agree Myke .... if you need your horn you need your brakes

Kids playing at the side of the road, you pap your horn, they look at you like an idiot ... no problem.

They are deaf, or listening to their in ear music, you pap your horn and then they walk in to the road

No good telling the Coroner that you sounded your horn and the accident still happened ....

If you have to pap your horn it's too feckin' late ....

If it works for you then fine

But one day it won't ....

 

[Morety]

And sometimes it will FFS.

 

[Micky]

And sometimes it will FFS.

I totally agree

But when a police bike gets T boned with twos'n blues on ...

 

[Morety]

There's always exceptions Micky and admittedly many times horns are blared, it's no doubt after the fact and in anger. They wouldn't be fitted if they weren't deemed necessary though, and no doubt many cases can be shown where they have saved lives. I don't know why someone would post on a thread about loud horns to suggest that horns aren't needed nor should they be used if one is riding "properly". It just comes across as sanctimonious preaching.

 

[Micky]

There's always exceptions Micky and admittedly many times horns are blared, it's no doubt after the fact and in anger. They wouldn't be fitted if they weren't deemed necessary though, and no doubt many cases can be shown where they have saved lives. I don't know why someone would post on a thread about loud horns to suggest that horns aren't needed nor should they be used if one is riding "properly". It just comes across as sanctimonious preaching.

Apologies ... please don't think for one minute I was preaching, or patronising. I only ever want to get people thinking ... I like to 'fly under the radar' and not rely on a bubble of safety around me, as in loud horns or dayglo!

Th only thing I can add is 'never sound your horn and still have the accident'

Some years ago, a guy, a pal, countered my argument. He'd been overtaking an artic driving in the nearside lane when it started to drift in to his lane. he sounded his horn and the lorry went back in to the nearside lane. Result

But then he said he couldn't go in to the outside lane because of traffic passing him in that lane. "So what would have happened if the lorry driver hadn't heard you, maybe deaf or listening to the 1812 at full volume. He clearly hadn't seen you"

"I'd have been dead" he replied.

I wouldn't have put myself in a position whereby my horn is the only chance of survival.

OK, I'm off my soap box, now carry on without me please

 

[Wapping]

Which came first, the loud horn or loud exhaust?

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

I use my horn when approaching roaming sheep on moorland roads

Quick blast of the horn a couple of hundred yards from them, sends them scattering away to the fells = clear tarmac and no need to brake

Horns are good for shooing livestock