I left for work this morning and I was heading up to a 3 way intersection where the light was going to turn yellow. I hate getting stuck at this light, its honestly the slowest light I've ever seen, I timed it at around 4 minutes to stay at red, may not seem like a long time, but sit there for 4 minutes and then try to tell me otherwise.

Well I made this turn alot before, its a left hander, so I hit my blinker, got on the brakes, down shifted and engine braked in hard. I got into 3rd gear at around 6k rpm, I made my line, found my apex and my excape. I leaned in, got my knee out and tucked down. Everything was looking great untill I hit the gas a little too hard and a little too early and the back end walked out on me. Luckly for me after years and years of riding dirtbikes I knew what to do, I kept the gas steady, used my body to keep the bike up and rode out one hell of a powerslide, people had to be saying "look at that hooligan" or "damn that guy can ride" I know it had to look good, to bad if I ever tried that I would probably high side and kill myself. It got my heart racing for sure, who needs coffee after something like that haha. I looked at my rear tire and I skidded all the down to where the top of the tire meets the side wall.

Got lucky today though, very happy I reacted so fast and it didn't end up worse, needless to say I'll just sit at the light next time

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Glad all is well, but next time wait until there is no traffic and 5.0 and then run the light. A ticket at worst is much better than ruining your bike and ruining your physical wellbeing.

Anyhoot kudos on the rockin' powerslide.

yeah if i sit at a light a few mins and it doesn't change... i run the bitch

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lol, cant tell you how many times ive done that.

you need skinnies, i do that on my hurricane every time i take a corner. my 130 series tires get laughed at sure but when i drift a corner faster through than some people grip it, nobodys laughing. then again im a hell of a rider too...

legally speaking if the light doesnt change for you its malfunctioning, because most lights are weight activated and wont change for a bike, the law here in canada says youre legally allowed to run the light under the assumption that its not properly set up for all traffic types.

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it doesn't matter if its a car or bike, its just that slow, at night it is faster, like a normal light, but during the morning and day time its just plain sloooow

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ahhh. see here in this shitty little canadian "city" the lights are mostly weight activated, so it takes often three or four bikes all on the stop line to get a light to change, or you sit there and hope a car pulls up in the next lane, or across the intersection. which they never do, so in the end you just have to run it, hope youre safe, and know the rules. it goes by the pedestrian walk light. itll show walk, then the dont walk sign will flash, as a yeild sign sorta deal, then itll go solid. if the light changes when it goes solid, the light works. if the walk light comes back on and the light doesnt change, run the red.

if youre lazy and dont feel like waiting, turn right, do a u-ball and turn right again. safer than running a red and a smaller fine if youre caught as well.

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actually, (*I'm an industrial electrician, and work on those very same lights) They are not weight actuated, they rely on the amount of change in magnetic field (known as induction) The metal, or lack there of in your bike doesn't change the field enough to cause the relay to swap, and thus change the light.
Here in Nashville, if the light doesn't change for you, you can run it legally, but only after coming to a full stop, and allowing at least 30 seconds for the light to change when there is no traffic..of course, what cop uses a stop watch eh? anyway..cool on the powerslide, I can't get my fat 190 to do that..but then, I"m not a great rider...*yet* (that cut in the pavement is a one wire induction circuit, add metal, creates voltage change, trips relay, light changes..

I would have crashed....and shit my pants....and not in that order.

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well it could be in that order... if u crashed and released ur bowls then ur probably headed to the morg...

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