Why bounce it off the limiter...

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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?

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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.

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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.