Can Someone Invent/Build/Sell This Please...?

[typerighter]

I'm on the 101 in my cage, coming home from work. I see a couple sport bikes splitting lanes next to me. I steer a bit to my right to give them room. Now, I'm watching as they approach a situation: The cars, which had slowed down to maybe 10 MPH, are now speeding up to around 25 MPH, a situation ripe with problems as impatient drivers jockey from lane to lane to get into "position." So these two sport bikes slow down, take a good look at the situation to see what developes before they continue splitting. One of the bikes takes off, the other cranks his throttle a few times to make sure the cagers hear him before he continues splitting.

Anyway, they got through okay and seemed to be using their heads, proving once again that not all sport bike riders are speed demons.

About a mile down the road I starting thinking about the guy "gunning" his engine to get cagers' attention. Then I thought, you know, WTF, motorcycles have been around a long time, and splitting lanes probably just as long, why on God's green earth hasn't anyone invented an audio device that warns cagers that a biker is splitting lanes?

It seemed so elemental.

When a truck, or a large SUV backs up, they give off that little "beep beep beep" sound to give people a heads up. When I hear that sound, it's an almost Pavlovian response, I start looking around -- it's a real attention grabber. The sound is universal.

Now what if there was a device that did the same for motorcycles splitting lanes. Same kind of "beep beep beep" but maybe at a lower pitch, with some extra modulation, like "BEEP beep BEEP beep" or something.

After a while, cagers would recognize that sound just as surely as they do cop cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and big SUVs and garbage trucks.

This would go a long way, I think, of getting us off the dependence on loud pipes which have given us a false sense of security -- all evidence shows that motorcycles with loud pipes get into as many accidents as motorcycles that have quite ones. (I think I got that from the Hurt Report, but I'll check on that.)

So, please, someone invent this thing already.

Thanks.

[Mr Jimi]

That will never work with all these cagers with cell phones. Think about cell phones, its just another distraction and poor excuse for not seeing us on bikes. In florida, we have lots of dark tinted windows and loud boom box type of speakers. They would never hear anything.
Be careful
Jim

[lagerdrinker]

its called a horn they just have to use it

[Clarinetcat]

Originally Posted by typerighter

I starting thinking about the guy "gunning" his engine to get cagers' attention...why on God's green earth hasn't anyone invented an audio device that warns cagers that a biker is splitting lanes?

Here... get one of these from Adventurers Workshop. Click on the pic to go directly to STEBEL's website to hear it:

[typerighter]

Originally Posted by Clarinetcat

Here... get one of these from Adventurers Workshop. Click on the pic to go directly to STEBEL's website to hear it:

139 dBs!!! Holy crap! I think a car horn is 90 or so.

[Clarinetcat]

Originally Posted by typerighter

139 dBs!!! Holy crap! I think a car horn is 90 or so.

According to the company specs... 139 dB @ 4 inches from the source, and 115 dB @ 2 meters from the source. Either way, the cagger should hear you WAY better than your stock beeper.
Oh yeah... don't try it inside your garage..... WHAT!?!?!?!?!

[rshute4]

Are you kidding?... people don't even pull over for emergency vehicles anymore! they are to busy yapping on the phone or smacking billy for hitting his sister in the back seat! PLUS people are so stupid they wont even change the batteries in their smoke detectors in their own house! a device that could save their lives!... so you expect some arrogant asshole in a BMW to give ANY consideration to a Motorcycle rider when they wont even give it to another vehicle? Ive seen morons cut off a 18 wheeler and hit the brakes!!!! PEOPLE ARE RETARDED, part of riding a Motorcycle is knowing that everyone is out to kill you, one way or another! when you pull onto the street you are the ONLY person who will look out for YOU!

I think your on the right track... though auto manufacturers could make a device that cancels all cell signals inside a vehicle... or people should just do one thing while driving.... and thats DRIVE!

Plus not all states allow lane splitting...

[XL O.C.D.]

Lots of true statements here. I would have NO problem with them banning cell phones while driving. Instead of an audiable alert, we'd be safer if we could broadcast a cell phone jamming signal that disables everything except 911.
Another problem is people getting upset when they see a bike lane splitting... thinking that they're cutting in line. With my luck someone would deliberately try to make that path a little more narrow and create worse a worse problem on purpose.
Definately an idea worth some thought though.

[johnnybgood]

Originally Posted by XL O.C.D.

Another problem is people getting upset when they see a bike lane splitting... thinking that they're cutting in line. With my luck someone would deliberately try to make that path a little more narrow and create worse a worse problem on purpose.

I'll go along with that. Lane splitting in general doesn't sound like a very safe thing to do. Too many people on the road that shouldn't even be allowed to drive. I don't think I would do it even if it was legal here in MD.

[klinesamuel]

How about a 007 style missile system. This should clear the path nicely I think.

Sam