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I Saw You: V.2.0

Pulled up beside you at a light and gave you a nod. I finally registered just to post this.

Me: Black & White leather jacket on my Black GSXR600
Location: Yonge and Finch
Time: Last night, 10:30PM

You: Dark blue or dark grey leather jacket. Black half helmet with a built-in visor. Sizable beard.
Your bike: Sickest neo-classic cruiser I've ever seen. A big bike, I'm guessing a Honda VT1300 from my googling efforts. Blue paint with everything else black powdercoated.

Dude, props. You and your bike looked like you'd both just gotten back from a cyber-punk future.
 
pbdeeds said:
Pulled up beside you at a light and gave you a nod. I finally registered just to post this.

Me: Black & White leather jacket on my Black GSXR600
Location: Yonge and Finch
Time: Last night, 10:30PM

You: Dark blue or dark grey leather jacket. Black half helmet with a built-in visor. Sizable beard.
Your bike: Sickest neo-classic cruiser I've ever seen. A big bike, I'm guessing a Honda VT1300 from my googling efforts. Blue paint with everything else black powdercoated.

Dude, props. You and your bike looked like you'd both just gotten back from a cyber-punk future.
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Whoa. I'm about 98.7 percent sure that was me. I remember you.

(Link of photos in my signature for confirmation)

Thanks for the compliments. Neo-classic cyber-punk futuristic, eh? I guess that's about what I was going for.
 
around 7:30 pm this evening by Yonge and Steeles.

You: Female on a Red ZX6R
Me: Graphite Daytona 675

Looks like you were coming home from work. Sweet bike! :)
 
If it was closer to 5:30pm I'd bet 100% it was my friend... She was wearing a black mesh jacket and has a black helmet with subtle flowers on it.

lator-illa said:
around 7:30 pm this evening by Yonge and Steeles.

You: Female on a Red ZX6R
Me: Graphite Daytona 675

Looks like you were coming home from work. Sweet bike! :)
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Rob MacLennan said:
No, amount of ferrous metal in the vehicle has quite a bit to do with it. Weight has nothing to do with it. Large cruisers tend to have less trouble with light sensor loops because they tend to be lower to the ground and have steel frames, where sportbikes carry their weight higher and are predominantly aluminum alloys. Light sensors use a large loop of wire, embedded in the pavement, which is part a something called a "tank circuit" that is used to generate a frequency. Presence of ferrous metal alters the frequency that is generated, which is compared to a base frequency by a device called a phase locked loop, the difference between which generates a small DC voltage. When this voltage rises to a certain value an electronic relay is tripped, which triggers the light.

My ER-6n triggers the sensor at the end of my street without any trouble, when my heavier VFR800 always had a problem. The difference? Steel frame.

So don't believe the snake oil salesmen.
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That does make sense. My friend on a v-strom has no problem with sensors whereas my cbr always does.
 
Around 5:40am today at Dixie and Steeles, then 410 south. Really don't know what the bike was, because the rear end had been butchered badly. And that's kind of the point. The license plate was at maybe a 30 degree angle to the ground, making it completely illegible. The signals had been integrated into the brake light, with zero separation, so it was essentially impossible to tell which direction was being signalled.
 
Black ZRX on Bathurst, north of Steeles yesterday evening. Nice sounding bike!
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Some have such a long cycle that people think that they don't trip. Others are set on such a poor level of sensitivity that even a smart car can't set them off.
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I put my centerstand sdone on the wire lines and that will usually trip the sensors. When it doesn't I call the region and have them adjust the sensitivity. When I lived in York region I had about a dozen lights adjusted.

Before I moved I noticed that several lights lately had gone to a longer cycle, I don't know why.. that just seemed stupid to me.

..Tom
 
I've seen a newer GSXR in Durham with orange powder coated rims - wondering where you got them coated and if it was in Durham. MSG me if you're on here.
 
About a half dozen of us, from a Ninja 500R through a ZX-14R, on the 410 north around 4:30pm, all trying to get home before we got soaked.
 
tuesday night around 11pm 20 bikes or so exiting the gardiner downtown toronto amazing view of seeing almost 20 bikes riding together.Makes me miss my bike more :(
 
Davisville and Yonge, Female Rider, Ducati 1100. You rock! Could barely keep up:)
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