kgdykes@watbun.UUCP (07/27/85)
>From: dhk@hp-pcd.UUCP (dhk) > >I haven't tried this yet, but I read in a Kawasaki magazine that putting your >sidestand down (if you can see where the wire runs through the pavement) will >trip an automatic light about half the time. Don't know if it works but it >would be easy to try. > Boy o boy have I been dense! When I meet one of those evil lights in my town and wait too-long for it I go and push the pedestrian button. But what always got me is how the light decided to start the "change cycle" just as I got off the bike and before I made it to the button.... Voila! I put the side-stand down before disembarking (usually :-) >operating a traffic signal. I heard that here in Oregon, if you wait through >two cycles of the light and you proceed with care/caution/common sense/etc What do you mean by "two cycles"????? If the light is always red for me, its always in its first cycle (isnt it???) - Ken Dykes Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. N2L 3G1 {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!watbun!kgdykes kgdykes%watbun@waterloo.csnet kgdykes%watbun%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa