PIAA sports horns

Post by **4thgenphil** » Sun May 25, 2014 9:17 pm

These add at least 30bhp each! This may not be true

Not sure what the advantage of them arenbut they are fairly pricey to buy

£15?

Buyer pays postage

Cheers

Phil

Post by **Donald** » Sun May 25, 2014 10:23 pm

Phil I will take these.

I was - sad as it is - looking at horns the other day as I use mine a fair bit but it sounds ridiculous.

Can I collect week after next?

Post by **4thgenphil** » Sun May 25, 2014 10:30 pm

No probs mate

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Fri May 30, 2014 3:15 pm

Donald wrote:looking at horns the other day as I use mine a fair bit

Angry driver?

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 30, 2014 3:29 pm

Just zero patience for people that don't know what they're doing, e.g. people that don't know where they're going so they hold up traffic by slowing for every road to read the sign, or people that are lane-confused (happens a lot as they're redoing tons of roundabouts around my way), or cyclists that cycle in the middle of the road.

But mostly use it to scare the jobby out of wildlife that is in the road. I slow down and beep at them so perhaps the next time they see/hear a car coming they will expect a loud noise and so move away instead of standing there all gormless/running in front.

And I like pipping it as I drive along sometimes. To music or to my own conversation.

Oh and chavs. I beep at those chavs that give you one of those stares as they slowly cross the road as if to say "hah, you're going to have to slow down because I'm being a gentleman's sausage". Doing the opposite while you beep usually jobbies them up.

I use it a lot and let's be fair, the Prelude horn is jobby.

Post by **indigolemon** » Fri May 30, 2014 3:37 pm

Donald wrote:cyclists that cycle in the middle of the road.

Nope - stop that. They're perfectly allowed to do this. In fact, if I understand things correctly, they have more right to the road than motorists.

And yes, the Prelude horns are crap by default. I always fitted Rover horns to my ludes.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri May 30, 2014 3:53 pm

My peeve is when they cycle side by side on country lanes

Post by **indigolemon** » Fri May 30, 2014 4:20 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:My peeve is when they cycle side by side on country lanes

Again, allowed and actually recommended in the highway code

Put it this way, I'll bet you would wait till it was clear and give a cyclist room when passing, 80% of people don't. They pass you with inches to spare, then the wake they create nearly wipes you out. Sitting out from the kerb, or taking up more room by running side by side, forces a proper overtake and ensures you're given adequate room.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri May 30, 2014 4:27 pm

indigolemon wrote:Again, allowed and actually recommended in the highway code

Oh I know! But it still chews my wick!

Post by **Donald** » Fri May 30, 2014 4:35 pm

Oh I give plenty of room overtaking, it's horrible when someone overtakes me on my bike with inches clearance so I am considerate like that.

But cycling in the centre is a joke. By all means do it when there isn't a queue of traffic behind you.

Just my view anyway. There are plenty of things illegal and legal that people do and don't do.