Potential daft question from a noob...

ok, feel free to laugh...

Is there a button on a motorbike so that you can flash your headlight the same way that you can on a car or is it just done by turning the headlight on and off or changing from dipped to full and back to dipped quickly?

I have seen that you can get headlight modulators but that's not what I mean, I mean this purely as in signalling to another driver that you are there etc etc (keeping to what the highway code states obviously!!).

As I say, feel free to laugh if this is a really obvious question...
biscut

yes some of bikes have that. i have it on my Tcat but the one i have before didnt have it

TomCom wrote:yes some of bikes have that. i have it on my Tcat but the one i have before didnt have it

oh ok, so its not a "standard" thing then, just depends on the bike itself?

i dont know , but it is usefull

I have a trigger style button on my left controls behind the main beam switch , it's there but don't work , mines a 99 cat

easy to repair i can do it for you

If ya can tom that would be nice , but can you come to me ? I'm in gosport
!!!!lol

ok, wondered if the consensus was that I was imagining things...

My 98 has a headlamp flash switch, I am pretty sure they are a legal requirement

Yep - on mine - normally labelled PASS as you flash folks to tell them you're about to be going PASST.
At least I think that is what it means.

It is beyond the headlight (dimmed / full) switch at the back.

I'd be very surprised it you didn't have one. I'm pretty sure they are standard on all cats......but don't mind being proved wrong.

Don't worry about daft questions there's plenty before that have taken the biscut......but you brought your own

Cheers
Rosco

Yes, on bikes it is usually known as the PASS button and is a trigger-like button. On the Cat it is on the left hand bar. Every bike I've ridden has had one.

I'm sure you've found it, but here's a pic incase

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If the bike has a HiD bulb, it is possible the pass switch won't work.

thank you very much for the pic, would explain why I hadn't noticed it on the two bikes I passed my test on, didn't look that far round :-)

Perfect Steve

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I Can Teach You A Thing Or Two
its easy and more fun when you do it for free

TomCom wrote:I Can Teach You A Thing Or Two

I bet you can Tom
... but as I dislike Microsoft and most things that run on it this is as far as I'd like to go, thanks :o.

Sorry Biscut for hijacking your thread

biscut wrote: would explain why I hadn't noticed it on the two bikes I passed my test on, didn't look that far round :-)

When I had a look at my first 'Cat I asked the seller how to cancel the indicators (thinking things might have changed from my 1982 Yammy and not realising self cancelling is no longer a feature :(), 'Just push the lever in the opposite direction' he tells me - Oh, so you don't push it in as in previous models? I try it and he looks in amazement "I've had the bike 4 years and never knew that!"

Don't feel bad

Windows and all software yes i know its not perfect but all computers in 99% offices are windows

Mine has it & I own a 99 Tcat

Yours has Microsoft windows? Wow LOL :lol3:

The lack of a "pass" button could be an hint towards the bike being a US-spec grey import, as these don't have them (or at least mine doesn't).

Threadjack - For those who don't know, there's a fair few of them in circulation - although Mister Yammy stopped selling them in UK dealers, they carried on selling them in the states for a few extra years. Sensing a gap in the market for a sports 600 which wasn't the lunatic R6, a few UK dealers like DK Motorcycles filled shipping containers with US-spec bikes, brought them over, changed the speedo and sold them over here. As far as I know, they're usually virtually identical except for slightly different switchgear, decals, and some extra reflectors. However, I think California-spec bikes also have a different carb set-up because of emissions regs.

Mine doesn't work. Will be fixing it at some point. Apparently some riders use it at a full beam as opposed to using it to flash, and it burns the contacts out.