Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:50 PM |
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You WILL know I'm here
Any rules on how loud a horn can be? I very rarely use it but when I do I want the spanner who cut me up to go home with brown trousers 
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BenB
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:52 PM |
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Nope. Just has to be a single tone / chord IE you can't have the Dukes of Hazard style horn on public roads (though don't tell the person
round my neck of the woods who has, and drives down the road honking it like a winkstain)....
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blakep82
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:54 PM |
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Benzine
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:54 PM |
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This loud?
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big_wasa
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:55 PM |
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Ive used the car alarm horn out the back of a mondeo.
Its mega loud and only draws about 7A so doesnt need a relay.
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coozer
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:56 PM |
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What about a train horn? Seen some seriously funny flicks where young dudes are cruising round sounding train horns to extract the brown stuff.
Funny
[Edited on 19/4/09 by coozer]
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:59 PM |
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Yeah something like that
Just wondering if there's a decibel limit though
And where can I steal a train horn from (don't say a train!)
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 08:59 PM |
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"Stebel Magnum" horns are supposed to be quality and LOUD
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:01 PM |
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139db at 4 inches, an F16 produces 140!
*Prepares evil laugh*
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McLannahan
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:14 PM |
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I have a pair of these fitted to my KC. Tested them on the workbench....Cheeses of Nazareth they're loud...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Motrax-Hootaz-Motorcycle-Horns-Black_W0QQitemZ310136295870QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090418?IMSfp=TL090418117001r17819
[Edited on 19/4/09 by McLannahan]
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:17 PM |
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These are all looking cool I should have them sticking up from the bonnet, but as far as possible from me! I can see it now coming home from
work...
"HI DEAR!"
"Why are you shouting?"
"WHAT? I THINK I MIGHT BE SHOUTING I USED THE HORN ON SOMEONE ON THE WAY HOME!"
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:26 PM |
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I used to have a pair of air horns on my old motorbike - one day some numpty cut across my bows on a roundabout, so I gave him the benefit from about
1 metre away... and realised that his back window was open, and the old biddy on the back seat had just copped the full blast!  (oops!)
But seriously - I rarely use the air horns on my Locost, 'cos I find that they just antagonise people rather than act as a warning device.
I'm trying to find another pair of electric horns I used to have on another bike. They were just as loud but each had quite a deep note, so they
weren't so aggressive.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:29 PM |
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If you find some u2u me, that's what I'm after that ominous "HONN-HONNNNNNK" that the trucks have in films (usually driven by
someone that's trying to kill the girl)
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JoelP
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:33 PM |
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i used to have 3 trumpet type air horns on my KC, it was loud enough that people would jump even when you warned them it was loud!
still have them actually, might fit them to the van!
[Edited on 19/4/09 by JoelP]
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 09:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
I have a pair of these fitted to my KC. Tested them on the workbench....Cheeses of Nazareth they're loud...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Motrax-Hootaz-Motorcycle-Horns-Black_W0QQitemZ310136295870QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090418?IMSfp=TL090418117001r17819
They must've made mine on a Friday afternoon then, 'cos the pair (in blue) I have are absolutely dire 
Both horns are too quiet so it's not even as if I can blame a duff one.
Mind you, after the triple air horns that were on before..... 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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blakep82
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 10:03 PM |
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139db at 4", but i bet the level of a jet is not measured at 4"
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Valtra
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| posted on 19/4/09 at 11:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
I have a pair of these fitted to my KC. Tested them on the workbench....Cheeses of Nazareth they're loud...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Motrax-Hootaz-Motorcycle-Horns-Black_W0QQitemZ310136295870QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090418?IMSfp=TL090418117001r17819
They must've made mine on a Friday afternoon then, 'cos the pair (in blue) I have are absolutely dire
Both horns are too quiet so it's not even as if I can blame a duff one.
Mind you, after the triple air horns that were on before.....
don't want to teach granny to suck eggs but it's very often the way they are mouted that makes all the difference , clamp any horn too
tight an it will be dull it must be free to vibrate ....naughty naughty
"If it looks like it works and it feels like it works, then it works"
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 20/4/09 at 06:53 AM |
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I have a stebel nautilus air horn on my bike, its pretty flipping loud and also needed a separate relay to protect the switch but its very handy if
someone is about to reverse or change lanes into me. As above, it’s not best to use for antagonizing people, use just for warning as it’s so loud that
really it will just annoy them even more
I also wanted the demonic airhorns of ‘THE CAR!’
[Edited on 20/4/09 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 20/4/09 at 07:05 AM |
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WHy not just wiore up a few of those annoying air horns they have at football games? Trumpet pointing outward shouldnt be too loud from your end
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 20/4/09 at 08:45 AM |
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I bought the electric horns from CBS and they often make people jump even when I warn then and they are mounted in the nosecone so the sound is
funnelled forward
These
http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/twin-tone-electric-horns-chrome-hornsc-888-p.asp
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 20/4/09 at 10:24 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
PML 
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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