Automatic barrier.

Kawasaki Jimbo · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Karma :

I learned today that my bike ('03 R1) may be the only one at work which doesn't trigger the automatic barrier to lift when leaving the site. I always have to wait for the security guards to turn around, see me through the window and push the button. I also have to copy their mime by rolling back and forth (to no avail), so they clearly expect bikes to just ride through. Today I happened to meet another rider in the shed (a rare occurrence because I'm usually last in) who told me his VFR800 has no such problem. The barrier has an infra-red beam in front of it and a magnetic loop in the Tarmac although I don't know if they are both on. What's going on?

yen_powell · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Karma :

If you can see the buried loop, try putting your bike across one of the corners, they are more sensitive there. We've got one at work and that's how the push bikes activate it to lift the barrier, someone even sprayed a little cycle logo to remind them.
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andym · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Nov 2010 Karma :

A few years ago I was working in a car compound and one of the sheds had the magnetic loop in the ground which I could activate by scuffing my boot over the corner, I thought it must have been the steel toe cap, but it wouldn't work for the agency staff.... turns out the boots I had steel mid-sole protection and they didn't.

@ CaNsA, I've never known any companies that provide the guards with soundproof gatehouses, I may not be too familiar with the R1, but I doubt it sounds like an electric car when running

The Tot · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Karma :

Not sure if this is an old wives tale and also applies to those traffic lights which are controlled by the induced magnetic ground loops, but try gluing some neodymium magnets onto your sump? If one of those bad boys the size of a 5p piece is strong enough to retrieve a few screws from your battery tray, half dozen may be sufficient to disrupt the magnetic field. I think I may have read it on here years ago.
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Glue the magnets on the top of the sidestand "foot".

Ride over sensor, put stand down, barrier opens.
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smallfrowne · Scooby Slapper Joined: 25 Jun 2014 Karma :

Our place uses forward facing ANPR to let you in. Pain in the arse at unmanned gates.
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DrDonnyBrago · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Karma :

At my place, all barriers are about 3 foot shorter than they could be, meaning bikes can slip past unhindered. Rather helpful as the auto barriers do not register my existence.

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Kawasaki Jimbo · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Karma :

This evening I tried shuffling back and forth over the corners and even putting my side-stand on it but no luck. Maybe I should choose between magnets or casting aside my British reluctance about using the horn. Still, maybe the R1's stealth applies to Gatsos too.

MattEMulsion · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Karma :

Try glueing a shovel to the underside of your fairing... Laughing

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talkToTheHat · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Karma :

When i was on a 125, it didnt trigger the detection loops for traffic lights. I kept getting stuck waiting to turn right off of dual carriageways. Probably about as much metal as an r3.

535 usually triggers traffic lights. Still fails with certain security gates. A pair of horns that don't sound too pathetic work in most places. Except the royal fail parcel collection site. Which has no human security near the barrier, and the royal fail barriers are vicious things that drop rapidly so no following a car through.

Some loops seem to work if i drop my sidestand and paddle back and forth over them.

Fear the barriers in multi-storey carparks. if there is one that holds you on a slope, it will have problems with motorcycles.
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Jayy · Mr. Ponzi Joined: 08 Jun 2009 Karma :

Not quite the same thing but do you ever get a particular set of traffic lights that just doesn't pick you up when you're the only one waiting?

Then, as soon as a car pulls up behind you, lights change. Twats.

EDIT: ^^ Just saw the post above saying same thing. It's only one set of lights near my house that do it to me, no matter what bike I'm on.

pinkyfloyd · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Karma :

My last bike, Honda Firestorm, would constantly not trigger the sensors at traffic lights. I have an assumption, the engine casing and oil reservoir which took up most of the bottom of the bike was made out of aluminium which is not magnetic. Thus causing no end of hassle at lights.
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Enduro Numpty · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 31 Oct 2012 Karma :

A few years ago the wife and me were checking into a plush hotel in Erfurt, Germany. I asked about the parking for the bike and was given a swipe card and directed to the underground parking at the rear of the hotel. The entry barrier was partway down a very steep ramp. The FJR was loaded up with all the gear and it's a big lump of a thing anyway so I approached the barrier with caution. With front brake on I swiped the card - NOTHING, the barrier wouldn't open! I was stuck there for around 20 minutes unable to turn the bike on the steep and narrow lamp. I couldn't pull it back up backwards due to the slope and the weight of the bike. A car driver eventually arrived and his swipe card opened the barrier.

talkToTheHat · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Feb 2012 Karma :

If you regularly get stuck at the same lights report to council, "fix my street" app works.
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I have enough metal in my leg to open the ones at work but it does involve wiggling about on the floor.
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kawakid · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Karma :

I have a similar problem when leaving work, it is on a quiet industrial estate, where there is a junction with Traffic lights on to a main road.

The ER6 does not have sufficient weight to trigger senses, normally this isn't an issue as a car or lorry usually comes.

However, I have been known when working late or weekends, to get off the bike, turn it off and push it on the pavement around the junction.
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