Hazard Lights

[Martay]

Hi,
i searched but found nothing on this...
Is there a reason most bikes dont have hazard light system on, and what is peoples opinion on them?
I was looking at getting a switch and relay, and wiring my own up as ive had a couple of 'incidents' where something like that would have been helpful
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[Faldo]

Some bikes do have hazards as standard.

The only bike I've had that had them was a ZZR.
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Current: ZZR1400
Previous: ZXR 400 L9, ZX-7R P5, ZZR 400, ZX-7R P6, Bandit 600, GSXR 750 Slingshot, DRZ400, DR650, ZX10R C1H, ZXR 750 L1, ZXR 750 L3, '99 ZX7R P4, KTM 300 EXC, ZX-9R E1, TDM850

[dodger]

My Fazer has them and can't say that I use them much.

The only occasion I've found them useful is filtering on the motorway when traffic is heavy, but apart from that...
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My Bikes: Piaggio NRG| Aprilia RS 125| Suzuki GSX-R 600|Yamaha Fazer Ducati 848
Europe 2008

[robbieguy2003]

Only bike I've had them on is the current RR I have...

They've came in handy a couple of times when hooning off to find a load of stopped/slowing cars/seeing police on a rideout or needing to break quickly.

Just lets you alert stuff behind a little...

Mostly useless though I think.

Without them before I've flicked left/right/left/right a couple of times to achieve the same thing.
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Current Bikes: Honda CBR 600RR - '07, Suzuki GSX1250 FA ST '11
Old Bikes: Suzuki Intruder 125 LC - '2001, Honda CBR 600F - '92, Honda CBR 600RR - '03

[stinkwheel]

The only time I could see them being useful is when approaching rapidly slowing/stationary traffic on a motorway.

I usually wave my left arm up and down in a "slowing down or stopping" handsignal under these circumstances.

The other situation is if sat at the rear of a queue of standing traffic. This is a position I never put myself in these days after having a VERY close call to being the filling in a car sandwich a few years ago. When a mondeo came to a halt sideways about four inches away from the car I'd been sat behind. Luckily I'd heard the tyres screaming as he locked up and spun out and dived the bike up onto the verge.

These days I filter along the centre divider or hard shoulder so I have a couple of cars worth of "buffer" behind me before stopping.
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[calyx]

It is useful to say "thank you" to bikers who give me way(filtering gap).
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[Feasty]

So no-one would find them useful for the purpose they were intended for - when you've broken down!?
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Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
Current: Yamaha TDM 900 (Comfy, light but big, power when needed). Also now a Tiger 1050, easily best of the lot!

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[stinkwheel]

[Skudd]

My bike ( Varadero 1000) has hazards, the switch that used to do your headlights on and off is now used for your hazards on my bike.
As for the use of Hazards........... well you will need to ask Kickstart as he seems to know everything about the roads even if you are right you will need to wait for Keith to deem it so.
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[strag]

My K5 GSXR 1000 had them.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

My bike's not got them but my alarm has a hazard lights function. Probably useful if I ever break down. And remember how the hell to get them on!

[jack_zxr400]

Only bike I've had them on is my R6
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Previous Bike: ZXR 400
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Test Date: 8/8/2008-PASSED