Stebel Compact Nautilus Horns

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James Bair wrote:

> *Stebel Compact Nautilus Air Horns*
>

I love mine. It is very loud but the note is not "angry" sounding
enough in my opinon. I wish there was something I could do to easily
change the pitch of one of the tones so they would "clash" and not be
such a pretty musical chord.

They are loud. My GF doesn't like me to blow it in traffic because she
says it really startles her and hurts her ears. If the notes were more
of a clash not only would they be loud, they would draw blood and cause
pain. That's what I'm aiming for...

-JIm
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On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:37 AM, firefly wrote:

> James Bair wrote:
>
>> *Stebel Compact Nautilus Air Horns*
>>
>
> I love mine. It is very loud but the note is not "angry" sounding
> enough in my opinon. I wish there was something I could do to easily
> change the pitch of one of the tones so they would "clash" and not be
> such a pretty musical chord.
>
> They are loud. My GF doesn't like me to blow it in traffic because
> she
> says it really startles her and hurts her ears. If the notes were
> more
> of a clash not only would they be loud, they would draw blood and
> cause
> pain. That's what I'm aiming for...
>

One time I came across an old guy on a full dress harley. An idiot
in a car entering the freeway almost ran us both off the road. I
dropped back as there was almost no traffic. He held his ground and
at the last moment sounded his horn. I think the guy in the the car
lost control of his bodily functions when the horn sounded. The
harley guy had installed air horns that sounded like a diesel
locomotive. Very loud and very scary to ANY cage driver as they all
know a train is nothing to be messed with. Anyway, the guy jumped so
hard he hit his head on the roof and then pulled over and stopped on
the opposite side of the road. I pulled up alongside the harley dude
and he had a shit eating grin on his face. Nothing makes cars and
trucks get out of your way like 140+ decibels of angry Train horn!

Chris Stumpf
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Christopher Stumpf wrote:

>One time I came across an old guy on a full dress harley. An idiot
>in a car entering the freeway almost ran us both off the road. I
>dropped back as there was almost no traffic. He held his ground and
>at the last moment sounded his horn. I think the guy in the the car
>lost control of his bodily functions when the horn sounded. The
>harley guy had installed air horns that sounded like a diesel
>locomotive. Very loud and very scary to ANY cage driver as they all
>know a train is nothing to be messed with. Anyway, the guy jumped so
>hard he hit his head on the roof and then pulled over and stopped on
>the opposite side of the road. I pulled up alongside the harley dude
>and he had a shit eating grin on his face. Nothing makes cars and
>trucks get out of your way like 140+ decibels of angry Train horn!
>
>Chris Stumpf
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>
I'm a bit afraid that I'm going to "hold my ground" a little too much
with the knowledge of having a "super horn" on the bike.

I've already had a weird thing happen with the super-loud horn. A
Chicagogo native pulled out into me once from the Target on Logan Blvd
near Elston (if anyone cares where this happened) It saw me and pulled
right out in front of me from the left (actually INTO me and my lane)
and forced me into the split. Splitting is not legal here but I wasn't
going to argue technicalities here when a 3000lb vehicle wants the real
estate that I was formerly using. I blasted the 139db horn at the idjut
behind the wheel and it just leered back at me with a gold-toothy smile
-plainly aware of what it was doing and not caring about putting my life
in danger. It wanted the lane and even though it saw me there it didn't
care. It just "took" the lane as it didn't want to wait another 15
seconds for a safe place to pull out. The horn was loud but it didn't
seem to bother the subhuman POS behind the wheel in the least. I let
it blast for a full 10 seconds after the near-collision and it just
stared ahead and refused to make eye contact. My safety was of no
concern to it. Holding the ground in some situations can get you
killed... Move out of the way of those who would just as soon run you
down than move the steering wheel 5-degrees or wait an extra 15-20 seconds

I've had other strange things happen when I've used a horn in the past.
I've had a person who pulled out in front of me slam on the brakes and
stop in a really stupid place in front moving traffic as they attempted
to change lanes or pull out into my path. The horn freaked them out and
made them do something even stupider than the stupid thing they were
doing. I've learned never to blow the horn when someone is allready in
the act of pulling out in front of you if them hitting the brakes will
make matters worse. There is a point of no-return where it is too late
to hit the horn because of this. Oftentimes an inattentive driver when
beeped at will panic and reach for the brakes first when they don't know
what to do. Often this is the worst thing they can do for you and other
drivers in the area and might cause a bad multi-car accident that could
suck you in as well as cars start to spin everywhere bouncing off each
other...

So, what I'm saying is a really loud horn (and the Stebel is _A REALLY
LOUD HORN_ -is not the panacea of safety devices we all wish it was.
It's better than the cheesy bicycle horn that Honda deemed appropriate
on the VFR -but it isn't the be-all-end-all of utilitarian
traffic-fixing devices when cagers make their stupid mistakes.

-Jim
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