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echo: bikenet
to: RAY SHANNON
from: BARRY AUSTERN
date: 1996-05-17 18:58:00
subject: Traffic lights

 RS>  When I was 40 or 50 years younger and was riding my Harley 74 and 
 RS> came up to a Red Light that had the treadle for chnging I would stop 
 RS> so that my left foot was over the treadle plate and with my Cycle 
 RS> Boot just stomp on that sucker. Worked every time. 
Unfortunately, most sensors today for traffic lights are not treadles that 
feel the weight of a vehicle but rather sense the magnetic flux of a few 
thousand pounds of steel. Even if it were super-sensitive and a steel 
bicycle would set it off, my Cannondale doesn't stand a chance. Only steel 
there is the chain, as far as I know.
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