Originally Posted by
HardyWeinberg
You could contact public works for the municipality responsible, maybe they could tweak the settings (I actually just did that, they sent me back a response that they made an adjustment, but I haven't found myself alone at those lights since, to tes). Otherwise, I would treat the signal control as faulty and go when I thought I could make it.
Originally Posted by
daijoubu2k8
Or bug the city to fix the sensor. It's just a few loops of wire buried in the road, look for the black diamond shaped patch on the road. Usually a loop or two gets shorted out and they become less sensitive. It's a problem for motorcycles too.
Thanks a lot everyone. I'll be contacting the city to let them know.
Originally Posted by
yarb
The ones where I am work if you tilt your (non-carbon) bike down so it's almost horizontal. So you unclip and stop and then, standing on the leg you unclipped, lean the bike over. It's no hassle once you're used to it.
That's pretty interesting. I might have to give it a try.
Originally Posted by
daijoubu2k8
Or just run the light when no one's around.
I was going to, but unfortunately I was turning left onto a 4 lane road (2 lanes each direction) and it was very busy.