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Originally Posted by Gadzooks Mike
I try to park directly over where the lines cross each other. Usually, that works fine. When it doesn't, just pull ahead a bit and let the car behind creep up and trip it. I'm not sold on those magnet ideas. If the motor of the bike doesn't trip it, I'm not sure a little magnet like that would work any better. Hey, has anyone tried passing steel toed boots over the trip lines?
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Yes, i do that too. Best way to trip them. Of course, it wont work at 11pm on a back road with a light that only turns green when a car trips it. I have one here thats like that at night. I sat there 15 minutes and no green. Finally i said screw it and went. What sucks is its a T and you cant see anything coming left or right untill you are pretty much in the 1st lane of cross traffic (2 hills on either side) and the stop line sits about 50 feet back because of this. Very dangerous spot to pull up to run a red light that wont trip.
Doubt steel toe boots would work. The idea behind the trip is registering the mass of iron that moves over it. A bike just doesnt have enough mass to register the trip.