On a second look, I think you may have have found the best one so far. This website states its plug and play with 5A current rating.
https://www.motorworks.co.uk/vlive/Shop/Parts.php?T=5&NU=15&M=70&Ct=IA&SbCt=BA_15_70_IA_35
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On a second look, I think you may have have found the best one so far. This website states its plug and play with 5A current rating.
https://www.motorworks.co.uk/vlive/Shop/Parts.php?T=5&NU=15&M=70&Ct=IA&SbCt=BA_15_70_IA_35
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Perhaps there really isn't a more efficient at 5A than the standard fit. I am a little surprised because 60W is an awfully loud if you stand in front of a hi-fi speaker (only about 5% efficient).
I wound imagine it is possible to do it with a largish piezo-electric device but maybe cost is the restricting factor?
POL382
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I fitted one of these to my GSA and didn't require the supplied replay for it to operate.
https://www.motorcycleparts-hornig.com/BMW-R-1200-GS-LC/Alu-High-grade-Steel/Wolo-Horn.html
Rated at 6A but doesn't trip the canbus.
It's very loud, big improvement over the standard unit.
https://www.motorcycleparts-hornig.com/BMW-R-1200-GS-LC/Alu-High-grade-Steel/Wolo-Horn.html
Rated at 6A but doesn't trip the canbus.
It's very loud, big improvement over the standard unit.
Myke Rocks
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Sometimes one can obsess on an irrelevance!
For Example:
I need a louder horn!
Why?
If you have time to press the button, you have time to avoid whatever is annoying you.
If you don't have time to press the button, then it is also an irrelevance.
Like loud pipes and foglights, they are just something some people wish to have, but they have no beneficial effects whatsoever.
I know my horn works. It gets tested once a year for MOT. Before MOT was needed, it never got pressed at all.
Just a (not rude) thought.
Regards Myke
For Example:
I need a louder horn!
Why?
If you have time to press the button, you have time to avoid whatever is annoying you.
If you don't have time to press the button, then it is also an irrelevance.
Like loud pipes and foglights, they are just something some people wish to have, but they have no beneficial effects whatsoever.
I know my horn works. It gets tested once a year for MOT. Before MOT was needed, it never got pressed at all.
Just a (not rude) thought.
Regards Myke
I only want a louder horn because the standard one sounds so feeble - a decent horn is useful to remind drivers of ones prescence at junctions where I have on several occasions had to remind them of my approach, if I believe they haven't seen me.
Looks like it comes with the correct connector to plug straight into to GS connector, is that correct
stephen.stallebrass
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FYI Hex-EZ-Can is plug and play.
Sssshhhhh You'll make him angry
Good, just got to keep fingers crossed that it take a bit less than the stated 6A
It's seriously good and easy to fit. I went for the Denali split soundbomb as a LOUD horn
It's not the most straightforward beast to fit under the beak of a GSA but it can be done (see photos) The original horn was removed, an extension bracket made and fitted between original mounting point and the nautilus of the new horn.
The compressor was mounted on the opposite side, secured with a real heavy duty zip tie.
Three small holes were drilled to allow cable ties to be locked around the air line from compressor to nautilus.
The original horn wires were blanked and two new wires run from +/- connectors on the compressor, around the headstock and under the tank cover to the underseat area where the Hex is set.
If you need help on mounting the Hex, PM me. If you need help making an extension bracket for the nautilus... Change your user name! LOL
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Sorry Myke but that is such a crock of shite - if you use the horn then it prevents the situation developing in which you have to take avoiding action. What if there is a car emerging from a junction on your left and the avoidance option means going into a head on on the other side of the road. Surely it is better to use a quick toot of the horn to prevent the situation developing - it is called defensive riding and anticipating the actions of other road users.
+1, a very experienced police rider advised everyone to ride through town with their finger on the horn, they do and on the RTPs the horn operates through the klaxon, so people get a real shock.
+ another one. If used with the HEX, you have the facility to add the ability to strobe additional driving lights too; thus increasing the chance of persons around you becoming aware of your presence. 120Db's AND strobing lights DOES get you noticed
Good one Myke ... I couldn't be arsed to reply, after all Engineer knows everything
If you need the horn, you need the brakes ... after all, the recipient may be deaf
POL382
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Yes it does, simple quick upgrade.
Deleted account 200417001
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this is the route I would go.
Myke Rocks
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I would gently disagree with you.
I am 69 years of age, and along term motorcycle rider.
I always ride defensively. That is why I am still alive and unhurt.
I ride on the presumption that any driver entering the road I am on has failed to see me.
I will never overtake when passing a side road, or even a hole in the hedge, in case some idiot decides to turn into it.
When riding or driving, I normally keep 2 seconds between me and whatever is in front.
When stopped waiting to turn right (with indicator on), I dab the brake pedal repeatedly when I see a vehcle in my rear view mirror, just to emphasise my position.
Looking at my near misses over the last 20 years:
A car turned right across my path into an industrial estate. He had no indicator on.
On a single carriageway road. Came over a blind brow and met a van attempting an overtake on a double white line. Got past with 1 elbow brushing a hedge and the other clipping the wing mirror of the van.
Traveling on a straight road, 4 secs behind another rider. A car came shooting backwards out of a hole in a hedge into my path.
With ABS doing it's thing, I stopped 1 metre from it.
Would a horn have helped in any of the above? No, No, and No!
Case 1. Rode after him and made a gesture suggesting that his balls were hinging in his eyes.
Case 2, I swung the bike round on the road, went after him, overtook and blocked the road. Driver had an education in profanities. Driver who had been overtaken offered to hold him whilst I hit him!
Case 3. Wagged my finger at a very embarrassed french man.
To my mind, horns are a form of aggression, and I know one feels better using one after being cut up, but I try not to show that side of my character.
Myke
No. A horn is not used to aggravate someone. The horn is used to draw attention, to warn of your presence. But then again what do professional advanced riders know. Great thing about motorcycling, everyone can do what they want, its their risk.
And riding after someone and making gestures isn't a form of aggression then.
I used my horn today to alert an inattentive driver who had started to pull out of the Shell garage as I was heading into Fenstanton from Fen Drayton - lots of drivers do it when exiting that particular garage for some reason - two short honks and a glare normally brings them to a surprised halt.
You'd spend £200+ so you could flash your aux lights when you use the horn?
If they can't see you and can't hear a Stebel Nautilus, I suspect the fact that you've got disco lights ain't going to make much of a difference....
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