Why bounce it off the limiter...

[Pothole]

Instead of just thumbing the horn?

So many headcam vids on youtube feature revving instead of using the horn to try and avert emergency/disaster.

Why?

[Jazoli]

Because people who wear headcams are generally knobs, whether they use the horn or not.

[cuprabob]

No matter what the bike is and how powerful it is, the horn sounds as if it's on a Honda C50

[Birky_41]

Jazoli said:

Because people who wear headcams are generally knobs, whether they use the horn or not.

This

[Welshbeef]

Yea knobbers have the dash or helmet cams.

[catso]

I suppose they think a loud engine is more intimidating and, to be fair they're probably right. The horn on both my Ducatis sound like something from a little tikes car whilst the engine noise would certainly get your attention.

[rodericb]

They're probably better off getting a louder horn. If some car has done something, they're cocooned in a layer of metal, glass and sound deadening so unless the bike is very loud to start off with, the car driver may barely hear it. And if they did, the noise isn't the one which their brain is taught to recognise as 'danger!!' so their reaction will not be 'danger!!' but 'WTF is that strange noise??'. Or that there are stunters on bashed up sportsbikes in the vicinity so prepare for silliness.


Bouncing off the rev limiter is about as useful as a stagecoach driver furiously cracking his whip, or his well-to-do passenger furiously rapping a silver spoon on the dash. Or a withering stare from a bicyclist. Easy to do access, feels like they're getting the message across but fairly ineffectual in the scheme of things.

[CoolHands]

You have to remember that most bikers are knobheads

[anonymous-user]

Does bouncing it off the limiter everytime instead of using the horn not cause long term damage to engine?

[curlie467]

CoolHands said:

You have to remember that most bikers are knobheads

To remember that, you would have to have known it in the first place.

Eh?

[Welshbeef]

swerni said:

BAM225 said:

Does bouncing it off the limiter everytime instead of using the horn not cause long term damage to engine?

It would cause short term damage to my bike

Unless you fix it wouldn’t the damage be long term? If doesn’t magically fix itself

[xeny]

Jazoli said:

Because people who wear headcams are generally knobs, whether they use the horn or not.

Element of this, element of they know where the throttle and clutch are and they've got to move a thumb to get to the horn.

I'll sometimes use a gentle blip (stock pipe and maybe 6k RPM so hardly apocalyptic) as a nudge when filtering, because some drivers respond really badly to a toot on the horn and it often gets better results

[Esceptico]

Where I live we seem to have endless hordes of fkwit tourists who wander into the road without thinking about cars and bikes. I find blipping the throttle gets their attention better than the horn and it is quicker and easier too.

[Welshbeef]

swerni said:

Welshbeef said:

swerni said:

BAM225 said:

Does bouncing it off the limiter everytime instead of using the horn not cause long term damage to engine?

It would cause short term damage to my bike

Unless you fix it wouldn’t the damage be long term? If doesn’t magically fix itself

Dry February not working out too well for you I see.

What short term engine damage does he mean? And without repairing it why is that not long term engine damage - the magic repair tree coming to the rescue

[tom_e]

I find blipping the throttle gets more of a "oh sh*t sorry mate" reaction as opposed to the "You fu*king what mate!?" reaction of the horn. People just seem to find a horn more aggressive.

[Pothole]

Esceptico said:

Where I live we seem to have endless hordes of fkwit tourists who wander into the road without thinking about cars and bikes. I find blipping the throttle gets their attention better than the horn and it is quicker and easier too.

It's quicker and easier to pull the clutch in with one hand and twist the throttle with the other than extend one thumb and press a button? OK.

[Pothole]

rodericb said:

They're probably better off getting a louder horn. If some car has done something, they're cocooned in a layer of metal, glass and sound deadening so unless the bike is very loud to start off with, the car driver may barely hear it. And if they did, the noise isn't the one which their brain is taught to recognise as 'danger!!' so their reaction will not be 'danger!!' but 'WTF is that strange noise??'. Or that there are stunters on bashed up sportsbikes in the vicinity so prepare for silliness.


Bouncing off the rev limiter is about as useful as a stagecoach driver furiously cracking his whip, or his well-to-do passenger furiously rapping a silver spoon on the dash. Or a withering stare from a bicyclist. Easy to do access, feels like they're getting the message across but fairly ineffectual in the scheme of things.

That's my feeling, too. Each to his goat, I guess, though.

[Tall_Paul]

Pothole said:

Esceptico said:

Where I live we seem to have endless hordes of fkwit tourists who wander into the road without thinking about cars and bikes. I find blipping the throttle gets their attention better than the horn and it is quicker and easier too.

It's quicker and easier to pull the clutch in with one hand and twist the throttle with the other than extend one thumb and press a button? OK.

Yes, it is.