I too had a 82 Vision, but mine had the full fairing from the 83.  I got
rear-ended in 88 on Andrews Air Force Base after the air show, bike was
totalled.  The guy was in a van, stop and go traffic, and then did not stop.
He had been drinking.  The MP's really were cool, arrested the guy, took
pictures, etc.  Local cops never go through the effort that the MP's did....
  I took the insurance payout and bought a 88 Katana 1100.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Automatic turn signals


--On Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:19 PM -0700 Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> (I always wondered if I took one off an old xs1100 and 'grafted' into my
> bike, if it
> would work. It had sensors to the wheeels to check for movement, I never
> figured out where those sensors were....)


On my '82 Vision, the self-canceling turn signal was a timer with a
movement trigger. That is, it would turn off after a few seconds if the
bike was moving, but stay on all the time if the bike was stopped. I tore
it apart to figure out how it worked. It was quite clever. There was a
regular delay relay, using a thermal material, like a toaster (I think, it
was a black box). The movement sensor was a magnetic reed switch in the
speedo that would close when the speedo was turning.

Pretty clever.

Mike


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