Stebel Air Horn

[Water Warrior 2]

Just ordered a new Stebel air horn from Ridesafer.com. The Fiam Hiway Blaster was not moving the forest rats fast enough for my tastes. The Fiam was supposed to replace a dead Stebel but it really failed miserably in the Got Your Attention mode. The dead Stebel of days gone by was not due to factory flaws or quality. It is a good product and worth it's price.

[cayuse]

I was looking at the Fiam unit just yesterday in the store and wondered just how loud it would be. Thanks for the heads-up WW.
A Stebel will be on my bike this summer, too.

[Water Warrior 2]

You will like the Stebel. I was talking to a fellow the other day with twin Fiams on his bike and they weren't much better than my single Fiam. The Stebel will wake up anyone or anything on the road.

[ncff07]

Is there any particular mounting and wiring thats better for the GZ? I found one on Amazon I'm thinking about getting for $42 but had rather leave the stock horn and use the new one as a back up. Wouldn't want to give the little old lady from Pasadena a heart attack or anything.

[Water Warrior 2]

Is there any particular mounting and wiring thats better for the GZ? I found one on Amazon I'm thinking about getting for $42 but had rather leave the stock horn and use the new one as a back up. Wouldn't want to give the little old lady from Pasadena a heart attack or anything.
The Stebel will come with some wiring and a relay. Your best bet is to use the factory wiring to the factory horn to trigger the relay for the Stebel. You can leave the factory horn on the bike or take it off completely. That way you always have your noise maker handy and it will not work when the key is off, just the same as the factory horn will not work when the key is off. Do not consider a louder horn as a back up horn. A loud horn is a first line of defence item that can save you from a really bad day.

[blaine]

Does the STEBEL horn draw much power?I'am running close to maximum.
I run two 20w driving lights with no problems.I could change lights to 10w each if needed.

[mrlmd1]

It is protected by a 20 amp fuse so that should tell you something. It's only on for a second or two when you use it, it's not a continuous draw, but you still need the power to run it or it may not be loud at all.

[Water Warrior 2]

It is protected by a 20 amp fuse so that should tell you something. It's only on for a second or two when you use it, it's not a continuous draw, but you still need the power to run it or it may not be loud at all.
Yup it does draw more power than the stock unit so the relay is needed. The extra draw does not really create a great impact on the rest of your power draw. Your headlight "might" dim momentarily but that is all.

Can't wait to be really loud again.

[blaine]

[quote="mr lmd1":124v81yn]It is protected by a 20 amp fuse so that should tell you something. It's only on for a second or two when you use it, it's not a continuous draw, but you still need the power to run it or it may not be loud at all.
Yup it does draw more power than the stock unit so the relay is needed. The extra draw does not really create a great impact on the rest of your power draw. Your headlight "might" dim momentarily but that is all.

Can't wait to be really loud again.[/quote:124v81yn]

Thanks,Will be ordering one in the near future. :2tup:

[burkbuilds]

Hey WW, I got my Stebel and put it on this weekend. Man is that thing loud! I got to use it today on I-75 just north of Atlanta. I was in the middle of three lanes of traffic running about 70mph when some knucklehead came up from behind me weaving in and out of traffic and cutting it pretty close to several vehicles. He was probably doing 85+ as he came up beside me on my left I hit the horn, one blast of about a second. His head swiveled over and looked at me with a startled look on his face, then he slowed down and started driving at the same pace as everybody else.

[Water Warrior 2]

BB, now you know why I ordered another Stebel.

[mrlmd1]

Aim it sideways and blow him into another lane or into the divider.

[cayuse]

I want one!

[Water Warrior 2]

I want one!
All it takes is money and the realization that getting a Stebel to the GWN isn't cheap. Still worth it though.

[cayuse]

no problem, shipping is cheap since I'm 10 minutes from Sumas, WA. :cool:

[Water Warrior 2]

no problem, shipping is cheap since I'm 10 minutes from Sumas, WA. :cool:
That is where I have had stuff shipped to rather than having it come the expensive route. This time I got lazy.

[Water Warrior 2]

Just an update on the Stebel I ordered in May of this year. It was a Flosser knock off air horn and not much louder than the Fiam it replaced. While in Canadian Tire last week I found a real Stebel and bought it. Now I feel much safer and a bunch of $ lighter. Tomorrow I'm going looking for deer to scare the crap out of.

[cayuse]

Just looked in their catalog. Did you get the "Ultimate Blast Horn", Product #20-2076-0 ?

[Water Warrior 2]

Just looked in their catalog. Did you get the "Ultimate Blast Horn", Product #20-2076-0 ?
I have a 66045 on the front of the package. Also reads 139 db @4 inches. It is the loudest and most expensive of the Ultimate Blast horns.

[cayuse]

Yup, that's the one. It's on my Xmas wish list, now. :)

[burkbuilds]

Once again the Stebel air horn saved me from an accident. Two weeks ago, as I was coming home down my street and only two houses from my driveway, a 4 door truck pulled out of a side street directly in front of me just as I approached the intersection. The driver clearly looked up the hill in my direction, and I would have bet we even made eye contact but he pulled out anyway. I hit the brakes hard and started to slide and somehow had the presence of mind to hit the horn button hard. The driver came to an immediate stop and I let off the brakes and swerved around the front of his truck instead of plastering the passenger front door head on. or laying it down and sliding under the cab. I pulled into my driveway and the driver of the truck stopped and apologized and said he never saw me. I was glad he heard me though. Chalk another save up to the Stebel Air horn. :2tup:

[Water Warrior 2]

Sounds too close for comfort BB. Do you run with high beam ? Driving lights to complete a triangular appearance for cages to see ?? Headlight modulator on high beam ?? I know you have some added extras but can't remember what they are. You could run a couple LED MR-16 lights to be more visible. In the past I had 20 watt amber MR-11 halogens but they were fragile and expensive but very noticeable. An ideal light would be a pair of amber LED's mounted on the forks. No power draw to worry about but still visible to oncoming traffic. A couple truck LED signal lights would be very effective and not really expensive in the grand scheme of things. A couple strips of amber reflective tape on the lower portion of the windshield, strips on the forks facing forward and to the sides. Let your imagine go wild and make a spectical of yourself.

[burkbuilds]

WW, all good points and certainly something to consider, although at the time I was running high beams but it was daylight and therefore a little less visible. The "pulsating"

lights would definitely get people's attention better. One of my co-workers was hit last Friday while out getting lunch. Somebody turned left right in front of him and he

ended up smashing his crash bars up and they wrapped around his leg and pinned him to the bike until the paramedics got there. Bad cut on his leg and a really swollen knee

were his main injuries, I guess he was lucky that he didn't T-bone the car. Still he missed several days of work, will take several weeks to heal up and smashed up his bike

too. I guess traffic is bad everywhere, but it seems like Atlanta drivers are always in a hurry and trying to squeeze the last little bit out of every commute. The traffic here

is usually bumper to bumper and you still see people weaving in and out like they could actually get somewhere significantly faster by doing so. Crazy! I can't remember the

last time I went anywhere down here that I didn't have to "dodge" somebody to keep from getting run over at some point during the trip. I've gotten so gun shy about it

that I have gone out of my way to find side streets that don't put me in heavy traffic even though it may add 25% to my normal trip time. Atlanta has a lot more job and

educational opportunities than my home town, but I hate living here because of the traffic and the crime. I'd have to get an amazing job offer to keep me here after

college is over. I'll take less pay and smaller town life over this mess any day.

[Water Warrior 2]

Less pay and small town life is good. Not so much hurry hurry and time to smell the flowers. Just be sure of many recreational activities in the area. Being in a small isolated town is not good either. You will die of boredom.