CBR 1000RR LEDs
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There are things that are formally illegal that we can argue merits of. But red light on the front is just a no go from any sensible perspective :-(
Note - I have a heavily nodded Soobie that's a lot of fun - I'm not at all claiming we shouldn't enjoy tinkering with our toys. But I also made myself familiar with Ontario highway act to ensure anything I do is safe and legal.
Personally, I got stopped more than once, ticketed once, for my bone-stock exhaust on my vfr2000. All I ever did was give it a good polish.
It's also possible your exhaust is illegal in your jurisdiction, many places have decibel @ distance requirements for exhaust and vehicle noise, which your exhaust may outside of even if it's stock.
Many places the rules specifically state that OEM exhausts are legal regardless of how they test. I've always presumed that's the case because Ducati and Lamborghini owners are sufficiently cashed up to ensure legislation is written to accommodate them.
Forgive me for know knowing the exact noise levels of a specific motorcycle exhaust /s
Even if you're within explicit noise limits, many states also have laws about 'disturbing the peace' that you can be ticketed for regardless of actual noise, in particular when done intentionally such as revving while in neutral/clutched.
> Many places the rules specifically state that OEM exhausts are legal regardless of how they test.
Some, but not all. In Wisconsin, the only thing that matters is that it's "not louder than stock". In Florida, you cannot exceed a specific decibel rating at a specific distance regardless of stock dbA [0].
> I've always presumed that's the case because Ducati and Lamborghini owners are sufficiently cashed up to ensure legislation is written to accommodate them.
Maybe in some states. Many explicitly exclude motorcycles from exhaust noise limits as well.
[0]: https://www.semasan.com/resources/exhaust-noise-laws-state#F...
[1]: https://powersports.honda.com/street/supersport/cbr1000rr
Remember that it’s about fast as a six figure sports car, so $17k for a track only vehicle is a bargain.
Lots of people ride "dedicated track weapons" on the street. The ergonomics are focussed, sure. But so are high heels - and nobody claims they are "dedicated runway footwear", people choose to wear them in spite of or even because of the challenge in wearing them - because the results are rewarding for those people.
I don't wear high heels, but I've owned an R1, and yeah it's uncomfortable. I also own a "dedicated track weapon" 125cc two stroke (a Cagiva Mito), and I ride it in traffic all the time because it's fun. Stupidly fun - big shit eating grin type stupidly fun commuting 15 mins thru city traffic to get to work type fun. And I do dumb shit like 1,200+km trips on it as well, in spite of owning much more sensible "touring bikes" (a Ducati Monster and a Honda VFR800), because for _me_ - sometimes the advantages of having my stupid little race bike for the twisty bits of road on the way is _totally_ worth the pain of riding it on the "boring bits of road" in between. And I'm not saying this as a flexible-bodied speed freak teenager - I'm 53, somewhat overweight, and need to preload on anti inflammatories to get through a full 10-12 hour day ride on a "full tuck" sports bike. But I do, and for _me_ it's worth it.
That $17k buys you a 2.8 second 0-60 time, and a sub 10 second 1/4 mile time - assuming you are capable of riding those (I'll totally admit it's way more capable a bike than I am a rider). It's astonishingly fast, and a bargain for a street legal toy. It's a good half second faster over the 1/4 mile than the fastest time for a stock Tesla or Lamborghini. Any half reliable sub 10 second street car has probably spent more than $17k in engine mods. A talented rider can run 9.8second quarters all night without voiding the warranty on a CBR1000RR...
I sold it when I moved to an island in Alaska with few roads, but if I had stayed in the lower 48 I would have moved up to a 900 or 1000. I was very happy to learn on a 600, but eventually I kept wishing for more power at lower rpms.
Tons enough people with both safe and reasonable, and Crazt and illegal mods out there :-/
* "Assume good intentions" - fair enough :). I'll agree with that noble posture.
* "Free to post without randos commenting" - mmhm... if you don't want internet randos to comment, don't post it to internet randos. To a certain degree, the whole point of posting it to the intertubes rather than emailing it to close friends & family, is to reach internet randos :-/
* "Based on believing individuals should have the liberty to do what they want, as long as they aren't harming someone" - I fully agree in principle, but I also 100% believe that red forward lights are in fact "harming someone". As I pointed in a sibling comment, I don't believe that's a rule that's there for funzies. "Principle of least astonishment" is crucial in driving, and drivers have lifetime of reflexes based on "White lights are coming to me, red lights are moving away from me / braking". Can you imagine being on a lonely country two lane road, and then some red lights are coming your way in the opposite lane? Etc etc... scenarios are not difficult to figure out.
Given the lack of evidence that OP is an idiot, I'm going with the assumption that he's not going to run forward running red lights in public. I'm going to assume the only reason the color is changeable is to show off for fun.
BTW, your paraphrasing of my comment on random commentators is a mischaracterization. I'm not talking about all random commentors. Just the ones who can't see past their noses far enough to know their criticism is not universal.
for R/G colourblind I guess?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_vehicle_lighting
Motorcycles have lots of arguments for and against driving with your brights on (ie both headlights, which can look like a faraway car) or loud pipes (save lives vs. cost rights).
As always the #1 safety feature is the one holding onto the handlebars.
And it should be noted: on a car you do not have the problem of the lights being closer together, which seems to be the problem the OP was trying to solve.
I think that's one of the unappreciated features of self-driving cars, is that they will always signal their intent, whether to other human drivers and cars via lights, or directly via data.
The algorithm is pretty easy (but sadly, not universal) once the intersection becomes congested, you switch from whatever you were doing to opposite sides enter the intersection simultaneously, straight and right turns exit first, left turns turn after passing the opposite traffic; then the perpindicular direction has a turn. Easy peasy, unless you live where the convention is to maintain first arrival order per entry direction, even when congested.
But as long as self-driving cars share the road with human-driven cars, the automatic cars will still have to drive defensively, assuming every other vehicle is potentially a Byzantine adversary.
What if I want it to get better during my lifetime?
I wanted to do mine animated like my car but I wasn’t sure how well MCUs hold up to the pretty extreme vibrations bike electronics get submitted to. Plus I’m lazy.
Above 20-30 mph (32-48 km/h) it gets easier, because the bike balances on its own and you don't need to hold the handlebars at all (you should though, for emergency braking and saving yourself from potholes etc.).
Keep in mind that most motorcyclist don't support the bike with their feet unless they're standing still - it's a good practice to keep your feet on the pegs as much as you can. It's way better to tip over than to lose your foot to the chain.
TLDR: I'd pick using hand signals on a bicycle over using them on a motorcycle every time.
I had an intermittent short in the indicator switch on a motorcycle. One day it suddenly started indicating left at an intersection when I was going straight. A car in the opposite direction was turning (their) left and almost hit me. According to the other driver my bike started indicating (my) left as I neared the intersection so it looked entirely intentional.
Fortunately we both had left ourselves safety margins and had eye contact so we didn't crash. But add youth, testosterone and aggressive driving and that could easily have been a really dangerous misunderstanding.
Edit: to be clear I’m talking about the large projector units below the LED driving lights. Most motorcycles come from the factory without the ability to turn those main headlights off and many states mandate them. On my FZ1 the main headlights are some of the brightest and most powerful I have ever seen from the factory on any vehicle including cars, by putting the LED in the same housing you are putting this LED strip just three inches from an incredibly bright light source. The factory turn signals (that the Author removed) are normally located at least a foot from the mains, the new models put them on the rear view mirrors way out to the side.
I'm not convinced this style of blinker is a good idea as they are considerably more demanding of attention to understand for other drivers. That might seem like a good thing, but it really isn't. In part because they use an unusual signalling patterm and in part because the cycle time for this pattern is too long in your case.
At the very least I think I would at least double the speed of the animation to lessen the amount of time people looking right at them. Also, these lights seem awfully bright. Especially at night, this might endanger other drivers in confusing situations. You may want to add some ambient light sensing so you can adapt the brightness to the ambient lighting conditions.
Think of attention as a budget. You have X amount of time to look at and understand things around you in traffic. The more time you allocate to one thing, the less time you will have for the dozens of other things you need to keep an eye on. A common mistake when driving is to spend too much of your attention budget on one thing. You really don't want other drivers to spend 2-3 seconds staring at your blinkers. Ideally they shouldn't need more than 500ms or so.
As a fellow motorcycle rider, what I would recommend would be to find traditional turn signals mounted on stalks further from the centerline of the motorcycle. Those are much more of an improvement since they communicate more clearly and are far less "remarkable" and attention-demanding. I know, this is boring, but in my view, a much safer option.
Here (Los Angeles), even in well lit streets, or worse on the freeway, you may see someone with raised high-beams and just don't care. It's particulary bad, if you are in the right-most lane (freeway) that's for more than one passenger in the car.