I'm gonna say that is extremely professional UA-cam channel about motorcycles, gear and tips and I really do wonder why you don't have more subs. Your voice is very calm and easy to understand, each episode is run high class and is edited to provide as much knowledge without unnecessary stuff. I really like it and can't wait to see next episode!
I got dizzy with all the skipping about...he looks like a rich kid know it all, obviously never changed a bike tyre in his life, recommending you use that slime!!!??? you try cleaning that stuff up.
I blacked out my bike, but still concerned about visibility - especially at night, so I added LED headlight, and Custom Dynamics signals on all 4 corners. HUGE improvement on stock! Plus I used reflective tape on my rims. It's black, so you never see it in the day, but are wicked reflective at night!
Fun fact. The reverse beeper on construction vehicles went from a beep, to a white noise sound. It's done because studies show it's more noticeable in noisy environments than a horn is. You could also totally wire one up in parallel with your horn to make it easier to hear if you're in a noisy city (check local laws before doing this because it's illegal to use multi-tone horns, though this is most likely due to people installing police sirens not obnoxious noise boxes to their vehicles, so idk, ask a policeman). A single tone, if played from an angle will reach your ears at different times. The phase of that frequency may be at unity (i.e. 360 degrees or more) which can lead to you thinking something that's actually at a 45 degree angle is right in front of you. Depending on the frequency, the error rate of knowing where the sound is coming from can be much worse. If it's white noise however, there are a ton of different shifting frequencies in there, and there's going to be hundreds of them that your brain can discern the direction of the sound. If you don't believe me, set your ringtone to a single tone, have someone hide it in a room somewhere, and call it to try and find it. Then do the same for white noise. It's crazy how well this works. Sources: Tom Scott - Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More? Steve Mould - Interaural time difference and how to find your phone instantly
Qbc Craft Motorcycle Black Reflective Tape Kit 12 sheets 3.5 x 12 of 3M ... black reflective stickers from www.amazon.com.au This kit contains 12 ea 3.5" x 12" sections of 3M Scotchlite Black Reflective Vinyl Tape for the Do-It-Your selfer. 500 square inches.
I’m still a relatively new rider in the grand scheme of things, but I can definitely agree that the visor tip is huge. One of the first things I bought for my bike after the essentials was a second visor, so I have a tinted one and a clear one. Super nice to have and as mentioned in the vid, really helps keep me safe.
Hands down you probably make the most polished professional and useful videos on UA-cam. They cut to the point, no long intros, real data, truth, legit reviews, great content and slick editing and graphics. Look forward to seeing what’s next. I love all the non-contributing jealous losers who try to take jabs at you because they are just miserable and their mommy’s never loved them. Great work man.
The decent horn is a good safety mod but if you are going to the trouble get one that sounds like a car horn (there is a difference) - and don't worry about the weight (it ain't that much anyway). The distinctly motorcycle and tinny sounding bike horn will NOT generally grab the attention a of car driver. A car sounding horn will have them spinning their heads off looking for the 'not seen' car. The smaller the bike the more important and effective this mod is. Don't worry about amps or draw on battery or wires, you just beep for a second or so to be effective rather than taking out your anger with a 10 second blast. And a loud horn doesn't replace good roadcraft - see the danger, move away and cover your brakes and THEN beep the horn. The horn is communication not roadcraft.
I dont see how its juvenile. Sure, if you blast your engine for no reason but to show off, that's useless and juvenile, but if youre doing it to get someone's attention, which is the point of a horn, then it definitely does its part. I'd think it would be even more effective since its louder, and has pitch variance, which like he mentioned in the video is better for grabbing attention. anyway that's just my 2 cents, you do what you think is right :)
What I do sometimes in an emergency is grab some brake and clutch without letting go of the throttle. Bike slows down, sound goes up, brake lights come on, and the extra gyroscopic effect of 8-15k rpm get a lot more attention than my horn would. Another thing that works really well to convince people to follow at a safe distance (on carbed bikes that is) is flipping the killswitch back and forth. Not the best thing to do for the exhaust, but super effective.
Very doubtful and dodgy. Anything that produces noise is communication and requires the offender to hear and interpret the noise and your intentions or needs - it is a negative action that requires someone else to act to keep you safe. Trust no one (car drivers are homicidal - they can and do kill m/cyclists) and by your actions give your self the guarantee that they'll never get you in any circumstance - apply your Roadcraft. Roadcraft is a positive action - you doing things that guarantee your safety. If you do fallback on noise to alert use a universally recognise warning signal, a horn. A loud car horn so much the better. Don't rely on engine noise of any volume which might be interpreted as a warning or just background traffic noise.
The best mod I got for my Shoei was a transition visor. Cost a pretty penny, but it's so nice having a clear visor at night, a slightly tinted one when overcast, and a dark one when it's bright out. All without ever changing my visor.
Great videos Fortnine crew! Would love to hear and see you guys dive into the safety aspects of auxillary lighting. I didn't think it's controversial, but it seems like people are split on the idea. Anyway, great work folks!
Very good video as usual from RyanF9, just wanted to add a note on the underglow. i consulted an Ontario police officer before making the investment and i was told you can add underglow to your vehicle as long as the color is not red or blue, does not flash and does not face forward. of course this will vary by province so make sure to do your own research before risking a ticket. Cheers!
Here in Russia, under glow can be used literally anywhere and anytime on a cycle provided it is disconnected from the power source (battery). Putin the Bear is watching.
As someone who is just trying to enter the sport I wanna say thanks for your honest input. It's rare to see someone who isn't trying to promote their brand!
Putting Fix-a-Flat liquid in your tire is a terrible idea - it will disturb the wheel balancing. I work as an auto tech and had a couple customers come in for 4-wheel balancing with a concern of there car shaking/vibrating. I discovered fix-a-flat in one of the wheels in each job I've worked on. Get a plug kit instead with CO2 cartridges!
You have probably the best motorcycle channel on youtube... realy.. i have an motovlog here in brasil and i aways give hints and safety lessons, but im just a guy on a motorcycle speaking... I will make a video in english then i show you... btw congratulations for your channel and keep doing that great job! Sorry for the bad english
I work at a tire company and that green slime is complete bullsh*t, cars come in with flats all the time with that inside their tires and it does nothing for them. Waste of money in my opinion.
There are some latex compounds that work really well. I rode my dad's car ~100 km to a shop on them, and my friend rode her bike for another 3000 km after plugging a small hole with it. The tires didn't lose a drop of air, and handling wasn't affected. Messy when changing tires though. Keep a rag on hand, or warn the tire replacement dude. Stabbing a hole in the tire to let out the goo works pretty wel IME. (Let out the air first. Or don't. I'm not the boss of you.)
That’s why he recommends Ride-On over Slime: it isn’t messy, repairs holes immediately, lasts as long as your tires do, works at all temperatures and speeds, and dynamically balances both tires as you ride.
I have a Bell carbon fibre helmet but honestly the best thing I bought was the option "transitions" visor that adapts with the external light. It goes almost 90% clear at night and pitch black when is sunny. (Great for those that wear glasses like me) I really recommend
I want to make a quick safety tip that will probably be buried in the comments but here goes. Try to have headlights that aren't 2 bulbs stacked horizontally. From up close 2 horizontal bulbs can look like a set of passenger vehicle headlights that are far away making your bike look like a car that is significantly farther behind the vehicle you are approaching.
So I have to disagree with using slime. Slime causes tire wobble because it stays liquid and your tire will become out of balance and that balance will get worse as you go faster. It even says this on the bottle.
In Germany the reflective tape is forbidden to use on your vehicle as its only allowed in certain patterns and have special meanings. (mostly for heavy machines and transports such as mobile cranes) Underground lights on the other hand are forbidden in germany cuz the color distracts from whats happening on the streets as people cant really put them into context. (and as much id want to be seen, i dont want to be the cause of people having a accident just cuz i took all their attention away from the road) Rules for lights on Motorcycles here are simple: >white headlights (nope not yellow) there are some options to add extra light, if they have a certain seal on the lights itself >orange turnsignals (nope not red) >red backlight "either one in the middle or 2 side by side" not a armada of backlights Ofc there are some specs for measurements that you need to be in for turnsignals etc etc and yes you can have tinted lights (only if they have a seal of approval tho, just like anything you put on your vehicle ) At this point id like to address those damn small mirrors mostly on one side of the handlebar of motorcycles in the US (*cough most motovloggers*) then saying "they dont use their mirror cuz they cant see anything thru it anyways and that it shakes so much" Yea well, here, unless your bike is made before something like 1965 or something you need 1 and all after 1990, 2 adjustable mirrors Would guess that makes sense to have all that and to go thru inspection with many checks so that we all can share the streets and autobahn safety over here. ps: your body you can decorate like a christmas tree with all that reflective stuff if you want to (extra lightsources are a no tho iirc)
It's about the same here in Aus, but my bikes a twin, vibrates the mirrors so much they're useless, I just turn fully around when I merge and things. Much safer anyway. But, I also managed a road worthy without the mirrors somehow, guy forgot I guess, they were in the car, but he forgot.
I have 2 of those "mini" bar ends. They are actually so much better than the stock ones i had on, in which i couldnt see shit :) I like bar ends because they let me see past my arms, at least on a naked. Sportbike mirrors are amazing. And for the record I have an 800 cc V-twin, vibrates like a dildo. Really just want the mirrors to spot "things", i dont need them to show details. Just like ginger said turning your head is key
Right. But is this actually *enforced* ?? We have very similar rules here in the USA, but as long as you don't do anything that's going to blind other drivers, no police officer is going to mess with you.
Close but not necessarily. A doubling of perceived loudness is equal to a 10 dB (3.1x) change in sound pressure level, or a 10 dB (10x) change in power level. A horn generating 112 dB SPL should be perceived as slightly more than 2x as loud one generating 100 dB SPL.
For Ride in Brasil, the top mod is "Antena corta pipa", a kite line cutter. In Brazil it is common although forbidden line with cerol (glue glass powder), or worse "Chilean line" (glue aluminum powder), and this causes a lot of accident with motorcyclists having their neck cut, so if they rotate in Brazil this Kite cutting is essential. www.motonline.com.br/noticia/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/CortaPipa_1_07_12.jpg
Great tips once again Ryan, after stupidly listening to my wife 20 years ago I got rid of my Yamaha XT 350 and I've not rode a bike since. Well not until a month ago that is, of course I got the big again immediately. My kids are up in their early 20's now and I've learnt the hard way as men do. I've stopped taking notice of my wife most of the time now. So if it wasn't for this virus I would have bought myself a new bike by now. So your video's have been great for me to get up to speed with stuff. Thank you your videos are very much appreciated. P. S My wife doesn't agree though
Decibel scale is logarithmic with a base of 3, not 10. That means that sound energy doubles every 3 decibel. Our ears are constructed that way in order to be able to hear as wide range of loudness as possible.
No, it is base 10, but you're right about sound power doubling every 3.01dB or so. That's just a coincidence though. Wikipedia has a great article on decibels. Confusing unit to measure stuff in but useful. The math isn't too important though because there are lots of psychoacoustics involved.
Agh my dude I gotta say and I love your channel! Such a high quality professionally executed channel that produces incredible content! Wish you guys shipped to Australia because after watching your videos, mate I'd buy everything you suggested! Keep the great work up and always look forward to new content you produce! -Peace from Down Under ✌🏽
I like my 10 dollar Harbor Freight horn solution. It comes with relay if you need one. It's a dual horn each with a different tone and is 110 DB's. Also plastic and not waterproof.
Yes I agree No 1 on the list should be a Loud Motorcycle Horn. Screaming Banshee Horn here: Thanks for the mention on the video at 0:50. Also note that our horn can be wired to your head light or an aftermarket LED light and will flash as the sound of the horn pulses.
Quality on these videos supercede those of UA-cam users with millions of followers..props to you and I will continue to watch in the future as I have been! and your shameless plug has me now buying stickers!
As a relatively new rider, I found your videos much more helpful than any others I have seen thus far. You are clear, concise, and informative. I appreciate the videos, and I have subscribed!
rather than separate visors, I like the idea of helmets that have an internal flip down sun visor under the main visor. that way all you need to do to adjust to darker conditions is push a little lever and the tinted visor goes away
As weird as it sounds, you’re both right. Sound pressure doubles every 3 db but your ear is logarithmic so to be perceived as twice as loud you need to go up 10 db.
I don't ride - yet - but I did do a little bit of racing with SCCA. I just wore sunglasses under the clear visor that came with my helmet and that worked well enough. Also, putting a few tear-offs on the visor helped cut glare a bit.
Or just if your helmet has one, flip down the internal dark visor for direct sun and flip up when is darker, no parts changing, just flip the little lever on the helmet
Even looking 4 years back on your videos , still the best motorcycle-channel to look out for the newest videos. Your funny, informative & original aproach is like a new 1st gear when having already 6 (makes 7) Thanks again Ryan and the FortNine-team
junkie Look at the icon ss1600. I have a pretty wide head, and it has a large nose piece so with that and the integrated visor covers almost my whole face. Runs about $200.00
The Shark Skwal does IME. Though a cheap set of plastic sunglasses is fine too. I love the fact I can use the sun visor to keep shit out of my eyes while riding with the visor open. So much freshness.
User 2C47 safety ratings. Snell rating is impossible with an internal visor. There are ESE rates helmets with an internal visor but they usually add a few grams for the additional safety structure required.
Hello, I have a modular full faced helmet! So have you tried using a tinted visor with mirrored front to use during the day, then on the inside drop down visor, I use a bright yellow visor, to use along with my tinted mirrored visor for night-time use! The yellow inside visor makes the tinted visor look like the daytime, and you can see at night!
@@stevek8829 Thank you. The "+3db is twice as loud" myth has been debunked more thoroughly than even the gender wage gap ... yet it persists. Yes, +3 db doubles the sound energy, but that's not how the human ear & brain work for perceived volume. This guy got it right and so did Steve: the human ear will perceive a doubling of volume for every ~10 db increase.
One I will add from my days in my youth and had to ride my shitty old bike everywhere all the time are the disposable visor strips you can pull off and discard in an emergency, instead of trying to clear it or lift it up in bad weather.
I was looking today at the law in UK about lights. Basically you can't have any other colour than white front (or reversing), red back, and orange indicators. No downlights, no accents, no strobes or flashing, no other colours NO FUN FOR YOU! As for horns, probably the same. The other thing, which people often forget, is that any modification from factory is a modification. What that means is unless you tell your insurance company you don't actually have insurance if they find out. An example of this, with a car, was my sister considering putting winter tires on and checking with the company was told, " Oh yes, that will be a 'change fee' of £25 and £100 increase in your premium and a change fee £25 when you take them off again and notify us. WHY! she cried. Well apparently you are more of a risk if you are getting tires fitted that let you go out in bad weather. They get you comin an goin' (insert bad words here)
Dude you a leftist? You always highlight what most people are NOT doing...also your left eye always twitches ever so slightly...are you lying to us..?? Anyway great vid...hahahaha
Actually, the decibel scale already has the logarithmic scale factored in. 3 dB is double or half the sound, depending on which direction you go. Not 10dB.
I like that the video on how to make your motorbike faster has 1M views but the video on how to make your motorbike safer has only 770k views, even tho it was released before.
Another thing you could have mentioned in with the visors is photochromatic visors, Transitions being the usual trade name for it. Bell, Shoei and Lazer have the Transition lenses available for some models of their helmets and I expect that there will be more availability in the future as its really great tech. You never have to worry about swapping it, or riding in the evenings or dawn, and it gets more than dark enough in the day time imo. I run one on my Bell helmet as it came stock with the Qualifier DLX, and its been great.
One of the worst marketing fads was/is the blacked out motorcycle. Compare a 2009 Suzuki TU-250X (bright red, silver frame, silver forks, chrome headlight bucket , silver muffler) with a 2016....( dark colors, black frame, black forks, black headlight and gauges). This seriously reduced visability. I just bought a 2002 ninja 250 ( bright yellow) ... and it has black chrome mufflers. WTF ! Lights will not compensate adequately for being invisible from most angles.
Greetings from the (wasting away) USA. As a pretext for my question; you should know that I have decades of riding experience, on and off-road; from the desert and mountains of Southern CA to the highway/freeways. Unfortunately, I don't currently own a bike. Hopefully, that be remedied very soon. My question for you is, what are your thoughts about a BMW RT? I am not really interested in going off-road anymore, I will mainly ride on back-roads and highways. Additionally, I don't want a sport-touring bike that is so large it needs reverse!
Btw that tire slime will eat the inside of your wheel and your mechanic is gonna hate you for it when he changes your tire. Might even charge extra.....we do....just a thought. And in a lot of cases it doesn't work....
So... were inbuilt dark visors (with the toggle switch) not a widespread thing back in 2016? I just got my first bike and I'd say more than half of the helmets had a visor toggle, at every price point too. Obviously I got one, vital when moving between shaded and unshaded areas. Frankly its more convenient than my ranbans, since it is stored in the helmet, I don't have the find a place to put it when I have to disable it unexpectedly.
Instead of going thru the trouble of switching between visors all the time, just get a helmet with integrated tinted visor like my HJC FG-ST. You can just flip it up and down whenever you need it, like in the evening when the sun is low. It's a MUST have!
I don't like the integrated visor because they make the helmet heavier and they don't cover all the down essentially leaving a gap that allows a strip of sunlight in that reflects off the inside of the shields (so now you have two reflections instead of just one). The two I've had were also not completely clear making it difficult to read street signs from a distance. Though I could see the advantage if you were on a road where the lighting cycled from full sunlight to shaded.
Although this is true, I think the reason people don't know about them yet is because they are actually relatively new. I had an HJC Spectre I think it was called, and I purchased 5 years ago I believe, and at the time it was billed as the only non-modular full face helmet on the market to have a clear visor and the flip down tinted inner visor. The only other helmets at that time to have them were modular full face helmets. I believe its only been a couple years since they have really started to take off and helmet companies have really embraced them. Hopefully they catch on because they are AMAZING haha! After that HJC, I will never own a helmet without that feature!
Alright hold up. I'm a tire technition. I do tires for a living. Slime and tire sealant is a bunch of BS. The only thing that works is taking the tire off and repairing them correctly.
Use of tire sealant is a huge mistake. Try plugging a hole in a tire with sealant and you could end up in hospital, or worse. Sealant will act as a lubricant to eject the plug at high speed. Very dangerous.
I wear a purple pimp suit and use a disco ball, plus they see the bitches and them me, glow in the dark tattoos, I give them so cheap! Make wild animals wear fluorescent fur!
1) I replaced the "Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!" OE button horn on my Suz GSF1200s Bandit with 1 ea.(Hi AND Lo Tone)- FIAMM Freeway Blasters on a custom mount. At 135db(!) That gramma in the convertible Beemer that tried to merge into me WILL NOT soon forget that mis-step. 2) Sorry, just not a fan of "tire goo". Maybe if I was ADV riding, sure. Hey, I know I wouldn't want to be km's away from civilization & have to push my scoot home(!). 3) Ahh, lights! a) Facing forward, my Bandit has 2 headlamps (Hi & Lo), two WHITE, LED "road lamps" mounted lower on the forks (come on with headlamp), AMBER marker/turns on the forward side of my mirrors, & the OE AMBER marker/turns. b) To the sides there are L & R/S devided markers (AMBER fore/RED aft) just below the fuel tank, by my knees, OE marker/turns & mirror AMBERS are also slightly visible from the sides. c) Rear lighting is the OE AMBER marker/turns, RED tail light, RED downward projected LEDs under that, & RED, vertical LED strips on the hard luggage when it's mounted (all RED tails are hooked to a brake strobe module). Light 'em up!
Fort nine is cool, but--If splitting lanes you can not remember without looking where the horn button lives. Car drivers can’t locate you by sound. Startled, they’ll do weird things... Tire pressure monitors better, checked daily. Flash when tires deflating, saved me this year; green stuff screws TPMs up. Lights are critical. Can get LEDS for around $50, aim a little outward to cars adjacent. Accents, nope. ASSUME YOU IS INVISIBLE!
Change visor? lol. The rest of the world has been enjoying clear visors with an internal pull down shade when the sun comes out. Just pull that lever when needed.
I'm gonna say that is extremely professional UA-cam channel about motorcycles, gear and tips and I really do wonder why you don't have more subs. Your voice is very calm and easy to understand, each episode is run high class and is edited to provide as much knowledge without unnecessary stuff. I really like it and can't wait to see next episode!
My only guess is that he looks a lot younger than he is. People probably click on like "oh some rich kid thinks he knows shit, bye". Unfortunate.
he looks like a 12 year old
+Martin Thomsen Though he's 6'3
I got dizzy with all the skipping about...he looks like a rich kid know it all, obviously never changed a bike tyre in his life, recommending you use that slime!!!??? you try cleaning that stuff up.
***** You even know how old he is?
I love how you don't have super long intros and outros.. Straight to the point and on to your next video.
spafro101 yammie noob reference
@@airforce1907 I like yammie noob, but dude has a point.
I also like that he isn't sponsored by RAID: Shadow Legends...
@@jean-sebastienmenard6385 yeah that game is trash anyway.
I blacked out my bike, but still concerned about visibility - especially at night, so I added LED headlight, and Custom Dynamics signals on all 4 corners. HUGE improvement on stock! Plus I used reflective tape on my rims. It's black, so you never see it in the day, but are wicked reflective at night!
Pathetic lol
Blacked out his bike, but still concerned about visibility.
@@truantray What colour your bike is doesn't make any difference at NIGHT.
I'd stay away from the slime. gets all over your rim, a real nightmare to deal with
and can destroy your rim.
Get a plug kit. No SLIME.
Your mechanic will absolutely hate you (as he mentioned).
Agree
It will also screw up your tire pressure monitor sensor, which will have to be replaced for $$$.
You could do an entire video on LED lighting.
Switched all the lights in my house save about $15-20 a month
And so he did
Fun fact. The reverse beeper on construction vehicles went from a beep, to a white noise sound. It's done because studies show it's more noticeable in noisy environments than a horn is.
You could also totally wire one up in parallel with your horn to make it easier to hear if you're in a noisy city (check local laws before doing this because it's illegal to use multi-tone horns, though this is most likely due to people installing police sirens not obnoxious noise boxes to their vehicles, so idk, ask a policeman).
A single tone, if played from an angle will reach your ears at different times. The phase of that frequency may be at unity (i.e. 360 degrees or more) which can lead to you thinking something that's actually at a 45 degree angle is right in front of you. Depending on the frequency, the error rate of knowing where the sound is coming from can be much worse. If it's white noise however, there are a ton of different shifting frequencies in there, and there's going to be hundreds of them that your brain can discern the direction of the sound.
If you don't believe me, set your ringtone to a single tone, have someone hide it in a room somewhere, and call it to try and find it. Then do the same for white noise. It's crazy how well this works.
Sources:
Tom Scott - Why Do Reversing Trucks Not Beep Any More?
Steve Mould - Interaural time difference and how to find your phone instantly
You should have like a million subs ur videos are so good
Halfway there!
Only a few like motos
Look at the number now, got re-edit your comment 😬
Black reflector stickers! They work just as well, and are magically stealth
Is this a joke 😂😂
Random millennial google it, it’s actually pretty neat stuff.
Didn't the power rangers use it?
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Great vid - you forgot the most important safety mod though...
The Nut behind the handlebars ;)
Amen. ~RyanF9
I’m still a relatively new rider in the grand scheme of things, but I can definitely agree that the visor tip is huge. One of the first things I bought for my bike after the essentials was a second visor, so I have a tinted one and a clear one. Super nice to have and as mentioned in the vid, really helps keep me safe.
Hands down you probably make the most polished professional and useful videos on UA-cam. They cut to the point, no long intros, real data, truth, legit reviews, great content and slick editing and graphics. Look forward to seeing what’s next. I love all the non-contributing jealous losers who try to take jabs at you because they are just miserable and their mommy’s never loved them. Great work man.
No matter how many of your fantastic videos I binge, I can't stop reading the title as "Fortnite".
The decent horn is a good safety mod but if you are going to the trouble get one that sounds like a car horn (there is a difference) - and don't worry about the weight (it ain't that much anyway).
The distinctly motorcycle and tinny sounding bike horn will NOT generally grab the attention a of car driver. A car sounding horn will have them spinning their heads off looking for the 'not seen' car.
The smaller the bike the more important and effective this mod is. Don't worry about amps or draw on battery or wires, you just beep for a second or so to be effective rather than taking out your anger with a 10 second blast.
And a loud horn doesn't replace good roadcraft - see the danger, move away and cover your brakes and THEN beep the horn. The horn is communication not roadcraft.
why not clutch and give em a good redline ? its louder, comes with the bike, and will def get their attention.
Because it is juvenile and not as effective.
I dont see how its juvenile. Sure, if you blast your engine for no reason but to show off, that's useless and juvenile, but if youre doing it to get someone's attention, which is the point of a horn, then it definitely does its part. I'd think it would be even more effective since its louder, and has pitch variance, which like he mentioned in the video is better for grabbing attention.
anyway that's just my 2 cents, you do what you think is right :)
What I do sometimes in an emergency is grab some brake and clutch without letting go of the throttle. Bike slows down, sound goes up, brake lights come on, and the extra gyroscopic effect of 8-15k rpm get a lot more attention than my horn would.
Another thing that works really well to convince people to follow at a safe distance (on carbed bikes that is) is flipping the killswitch back and forth. Not the best thing to do for the exhaust, but super effective.
Very doubtful and dodgy.
Anything that produces noise is communication and requires the offender to hear and interpret the noise and your intentions or needs - it is a negative action that requires someone else to act to keep you safe. Trust no one (car drivers are homicidal - they can and do kill m/cyclists) and by your actions give your self the guarantee that they'll never get you in any circumstance - apply your Roadcraft.
Roadcraft is a positive action - you doing things that guarantee your safety.
If you do fallback on noise to alert use a universally recognise warning signal, a horn. A loud car horn so much the better. Don't rely on engine noise of any volume which might be interpreted as a warning or just background traffic noise.
Quality video once again, good stuff.
I'm trying to find where i can safely put one of those simulated train horns on my dual sport... lol
The best mod I got for my Shoei was a transition visor. Cost a pretty penny, but it's so nice having a clear visor at night, a slightly tinted one when overcast, and a dark one when it's bright out. All without ever changing my visor.
There are also helmets with built-in dual visors.
I would add a rear brake light that senses deceleration when you're just engine-braking.
I love this channel, no crap fill in talk just facts, very informative.
Get a helmet which has a drop-down shade behind the clear visor. That'll also save you when you suddenly go through a dim tunnel.
I can second the PIAA horn: installed it on my FZ-09 in 10 mins, great price too. Much louder than the stock horn.
slime wreaks havoc on aluminum over time. actually ate through an old atv rim I had, had 3 pin holes from the corrosion. no joke,either, look it up
Rideon is what he recomended.
This guy is straight up amazing keep up the phenomenal work dude I love it!
Great videos Fortnine crew! Would love to hear and see you guys dive into the safety aspects of auxillary lighting. I didn't think it's controversial, but it seems like people are split on the idea. Anyway, great work folks!
Very good video as usual from RyanF9, just wanted to add a note on the underglow. i consulted an Ontario police officer before making the investment and i was told you can add underglow to your vehicle as long as the color is not red or blue, does not flash and does not face forward. of course this will vary by province so make sure to do your own research before risking a ticket.
Cheers!
Suuuper useful information. Thanks! ~RyanF9
i was wondering about that also, as i am in Ontario as well. thanks for the info !
Here in Russia, under glow can be used literally anywhere and anytime on a cycle provided it is disconnected from the power source (battery). Putin the Bear is watching.
@@barrykelly2722 my led light kit is powered by a USB plug .i just use a lithium battery booster to power my led strips
My led lights are under the tank and reflect of the engine . More like accent lights .
As someone who is just trying to enter the sport I wanna say thanks for your honest input. It's rare to see someone who isn't trying to promote their brand!
Putting Fix-a-Flat liquid in your tire is a terrible idea - it will disturb the wheel balancing. I work as an auto tech and had a couple customers come in for 4-wheel balancing with a concern of there car shaking/vibrating. I discovered fix-a-flat in one of the wheels in each job I've worked on. Get a plug kit instead with CO2 cartridges!
When you improperly install it yes. The directions specifically state to immediately get tire spinning to "evenly" distribute the glue.
You have probably the best motorcycle channel on youtube... realy.. i have an motovlog here in brasil and i aways give hints and safety lessons, but im just a guy on a motorcycle speaking... I will make a video in english then i show you... btw congratulations for your channel and keep doing that great job! Sorry for the bad english
Super UA-cam channel I've been watching for a while,very detailed videos
I work at a tire company and that green slime is complete bullsh*t, cars come in with flats all the time with that inside their tires and it does nothing for them. Waste of money in my opinion.
There are some latex compounds that work really well. I rode my dad's car ~100 km to a shop on them, and my friend rode her bike for another 3000 km after plugging a small hole with it. The tires didn't lose a drop of air, and handling wasn't affected.
Messy when changing tires though. Keep a rag on hand, or warn the tire replacement dude. Stabbing a hole in the tire to let out the goo works pretty wel IME. (Let out the air first. Or don't. I'm not the boss of you.)
Well i know it works for mtb tires
That’s why he recommends Ride-On over Slime: it isn’t messy, repairs holes immediately, lasts as long as your tires do, works at all temperatures and speeds, and dynamically balances both tires as you ride.
I have a Bell carbon fibre helmet but honestly the best thing I bought was the option "transitions" visor that adapts with the external light. It goes almost 90% clear at night and pitch black when is sunny. (Great for those that wear glasses like me) I really recommend
I want to make a quick safety tip that will probably be buried in the comments but here goes. Try to have headlights that aren't 2 bulbs stacked horizontally. From up close 2 horizontal bulbs can look like a set of passenger vehicle headlights that are far away making your bike look like a car that is significantly farther behind the vehicle you are approaching.
So I have to disagree with using slime. Slime causes tire wobble because it stays liquid and your tire will become out of balance and that balance will get worse as you go faster. It even says this on the bottle.
In Germany the reflective tape is forbidden to use on your vehicle as its only allowed in certain patterns and have special meanings. (mostly for heavy machines and transports such as mobile cranes)
Underground lights on the other hand are forbidden in germany cuz the color distracts from whats happening on the streets as people cant really put them into context.
(and as much id want to be seen, i dont want to be the cause of people having a accident just cuz i took all their attention away from the road)
Rules for lights on Motorcycles here are simple:
>white headlights (nope not yellow) there are some options to add extra light, if they have a certain seal on the lights itself
>orange turnsignals (nope not red)
>red backlight "either one in the middle or 2 side by side" not a armada of backlights
Ofc there are some specs for measurements that you need to be in for turnsignals etc etc
and yes you can have tinted lights (only if they have a seal of approval tho, just like anything you put on your vehicle )
At this point id like to address those damn small mirrors mostly on one side of the handlebar of motorcycles in the US (*cough most motovloggers*) then saying "they dont use their mirror cuz they cant see anything thru it anyways and that it shakes so much"
Yea well, here, unless your bike is made before something like 1965 or something you need 1 and all after 1990, 2 adjustable mirrors
Would guess that makes sense to have all that and to go thru inspection with many checks so that we all can share the streets and autobahn safety over here.
ps: your body you can decorate like a christmas tree with all that reflective stuff if you want to (extra lightsources are a no tho iirc)
It's about the same here in Aus, but my bikes a twin, vibrates the mirrors so much they're useless, I just turn fully around when I merge and things. Much safer anyway. But, I also managed a road worthy without the mirrors somehow, guy forgot I guess, they were in the car, but he forgot.
I have 2 of those "mini" bar ends. They are actually so much better than the stock ones i had on, in which i couldnt see shit :) I like bar ends because they let me see past my arms, at least on a naked. Sportbike mirrors are amazing. And for the record I have an 800 cc V-twin, vibrates like a dildo. Really just want the mirrors to spot "things", i dont need them to show details. Just like ginger said turning your head is key
Right. But is this actually *enforced* ?? We have very similar rules here in the USA, but as long as you don't do anything that's going to blind other drivers, no police officer is going to mess with you.
Trust me. German police is definetly enforcing these laws.
Not being able to use reflective tape or lights is just stupid. People don't see shit at night so everything helps.
0:40 a gain of 10dB makes the sound 10x times louder and a gain of 3dB makes the sound about twice as loud. So 15dB is 2^5=32 times louder.
Close but not necessarily. A doubling of perceived loudness is equal to a 10 dB (3.1x) change in sound pressure level, or a 10 dB (10x) change in power level. A horn generating 112 dB SPL should be perceived as slightly more than 2x as loud one generating 100 dB SPL.
For Ride in Brasil, the top mod is "Antena corta pipa", a kite line cutter. In Brazil it is common although forbidden line with cerol (glue glass powder), or worse "Chilean line" (glue aluminum powder), and this causes a lot of accident with motorcyclists having their neck cut, so if they rotate in Brazil this Kite cutting is essential.
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so... there are psycopaths putting out wires across the road so a rider's neck gets cut?
Exceptional videos - just discovering this channel. Well well played sir.
Great tips once again Ryan, after stupidly listening to my wife 20 years ago I got rid of my Yamaha XT 350 and I've not rode a bike since. Well not until a month ago that is, of course I got the big again immediately. My kids are up in their early 20's now and I've learnt the hard way as men do. I've stopped taking notice of my wife most of the time now. So if it wasn't for this virus I would have bought myself a new bike by now. So your video's have been great for me to get up to speed with stuff. Thank you your videos are very much appreciated.
P. S
My wife doesn't agree though
Hey man, great you get Back to riding!
I want to buy a XT350, what should I Look Out for? Any known problems? Thanks!
Decibel scale is logarithmic with a base of 3, not 10. That means that sound energy doubles every 3 decibel. Our ears are constructed that way in order to be able to hear as wide range of loudness as possible.
No, it is base 10, but you're right about sound power doubling every 3.01dB or so. That's just a coincidence though. Wikipedia has a great article on decibels. Confusing unit to measure stuff in but useful. The math isn't too important though because there are lots of psychoacoustics involved.
Agh my dude I gotta say and I love your channel! Such a high quality professionally executed channel that produces incredible content! Wish you guys shipped to Australia because after watching your videos, mate I'd buy everything you suggested! Keep the great work up and always look forward to new content you produce!
-Peace from Down Under ✌🏽
great videos,tips and advice. correct me if I'm wrong, with the decibels a gain of 3db is twice as loud.
I like my 10 dollar Harbor Freight horn solution. It comes with relay if you need one. It's a dual horn each with a different tone and is 110 DB's. Also plastic and not waterproof.
Yes I agree No 1 on the list should be a Loud Motorcycle Horn. Screaming Banshee Horn here: Thanks for the mention on the video at 0:50. Also note that our horn can be wired to your head light or an aftermarket LED light and will flash as the sound of the horn pulses.
Quality on these videos supercede those of UA-cam users with millions of followers..props to you and I will continue to watch in the future as I have been! and your shameless plug has me now buying stickers!
As a relatively new rider, I found your videos much more helpful than any others I have seen thus far. You are clear, concise, and informative.
I appreciate the videos, and I have subscribed!
naww, a gain of 10 is 10 times as loud isn't it? a gain of +3dB is twice as loud, so +3+3+3+3 is about 16 times as loud
You are correct, confirmed w gpt
rather than separate visors, I like the idea of helmets that have an internal flip down sun visor under the main visor. that way all you need to do to adjust to darker conditions is push a little lever and the tinted visor goes away
you can also buy self.tinting visor
Gets 3 times, by order of magnitude as loud with an increase of 10dB , doubles every 3dB
As weird as it sounds, you’re both right. Sound pressure doubles every 3 db but your ear is logarithmic so to be perceived as twice as loud you need to go up 10 db.
That horn sounds fecking brill, I live in Asia & I use mine more than my indicators. I have to.
Needed here in Thailand too
All are good suggestions but am I the only one who was thinking just put a pair of sunglasses on during the day vs. purchasing a new visor?
I don't ride - yet - but I did do a little bit of racing with SCCA. I just wore sunglasses under the clear visor that came with my helmet and that worked well enough. Also, putting a few tear-offs on the visor helped cut glare a bit.
Or just if your helmet has one, flip down the internal dark visor for direct sun and flip up when is darker, no parts changing, just flip the little lever on the helmet
Even looking 4 years back on your videos , still the best motorcycle-channel to look out for the newest videos.
Your funny, informative & original aproach is like a new 1st gear when having already 6 (makes 7)
Thanks again Ryan and the FortNine-team
Ryan, I think u should make best anti theft products video :)
Recording that tomorrowwwww. Video should be up in the near future. ~RyanF9
FortNine Wow. Happy to hear that. If its possible, include some reliable gps tracker system :)
Regards for my favourite channel
Best anti-theft product? Hose your bike down with Slime™, nobody will want to touch it. 😂
good to mention the internal dark visors that are available today so you always have it ready on demand..
junkie Look at the icon ss1600. I have a pretty wide head, and it has a large nose piece so with that and the integrated visor covers almost my whole face. Runs about $200.00
The Shark Skwal does IME. Though a cheap set of plastic sunglasses is fine too. I love the fact I can use the sun visor to keep shit out of my eyes while riding with the visor open. So much freshness.
I have a helmet with built in sunglasses and i love it. If i go trough a forest, or a tunnel a dark visor would be rather dangerous than helpful.
These internal visors can even be found in the cheapest of helmets, why do the expensive ones not have them?
User 2C47 safety ratings. Snell rating is impossible with an internal visor. There are ESE rates helmets with an internal visor but they usually add a few grams for the additional safety structure required.
Hello, I have a modular full faced helmet! So have you tried using a tinted visor with mirrored front to use during the day, then on the inside drop down visor, I use a bright yellow visor, to use along with my tinted mirrored visor for night-time use! The yellow inside visor makes the tinted visor look like the daytime, and you can see at night!
Actualy 3dB is twice as loud. so... this is loud XD
I agree
It's twice as loud in power but not in human perception. That is considered to be at 10 dB.
@@stevek8829 yeah 3db ain't twice as loud, that's some bs
@@stevek8829 Thank you. The "+3db is twice as loud" myth has been debunked more thoroughly than even the gender wage gap ... yet it persists. Yes, +3 db doubles the sound energy, but that's not how the human ear & brain work for perceived volume. This guy got it right and so did Steve: the human ear will perceive a doubling of volume for every ~10 db increase.
I recommend just bringing sunglasses over a tinted visor tbh
Great..really you r a masterpiece..what a depth of knowledge..Great fan of yours😊
One I will add from my days in my youth and had to ride my shitty old bike everywhere all the time are the disposable visor strips you can pull off and discard in an emergency, instead of trying to clear it or lift it up in bad weather.
on my bike the horn is less loud then my 50cc engine and when i rev it up the horn gets louder my bike is from 1959
Weak alternator
@@abark Weak battery.
I was looking today at the law in UK about lights. Basically you can't have any other colour than white front (or reversing), red back, and orange indicators. No downlights, no accents, no strobes or flashing, no other colours NO FUN FOR YOU! As for horns, probably the same. The other thing, which people often forget, is that any modification from factory is a modification. What that means is unless you tell your insurance company you don't actually have insurance if they find out. An example of this, with a car, was my sister considering putting winter tires on and checking with the company was told, " Oh yes, that will be a 'change fee' of £25 and £100 increase in your premium and a change fee £25 when you take them off again and notify us. WHY! she cried. Well apparently you are more of a risk if you are getting tires fitted that let you go out in bad weather. They get you comin an goin' (insert bad words here)
Rotational Mass is something to consider before you put any liquids in your tires.
Isn't underglow considered illegal?? I've heard of many people getting tickets here in Edmonton for underglow...
Dude you a leftist? You always highlight what most people are NOT doing...also your left eye always twitches ever so slightly...are you lying to us..??
Anyway great vid...hahahaha
slim is the worst thing to put in a motorcycle tire it makes your tires off balance and that's just not safe on a bike
5 best safety mods:
1. Training
2. Training
3. Training
4. Training
5. Training
I don't even care about motorcycles that much and I love this channel. The production value and script is top gear level.
Actually, the decibel scale already has the logarithmic scale factored in. 3 dB is double or half the sound, depending on which direction you go. Not 10dB.
7 years ago!!! F9 you have always been a great presenter
Tire sealant comes out every time you go to pump up your tire. It's gross.
your production and video quality overall are truly top notch. well done !
I like that the video on how to make your motorbike faster has 1M views but the video on how to make your motorbike safer has only 770k views, even tho it was released before.
Not slime, use something thixotropic like Ride-On or Pneumaseal.
Another thing you could have mentioned in with the visors is photochromatic visors, Transitions being the usual trade name for it. Bell, Shoei and Lazer have the Transition lenses available for some models of their helmets and I expect that there will be more availability in the future as its really great tech. You never have to worry about swapping it, or riding in the evenings or dawn, and it gets more than dark enough in the day time imo. I run one on my Bell helmet as it came stock with the Qualifier DLX, and its been great.
From what I can tell they can be illegal in certain countries, so make sure it’s legal in your area!
Thanks again Ryan! Saving me and my wallet from unnecessary pain and anguish.
Your videos continually cost me money. I watch one and then buy stuff. Thanks Ryan!
Hey RF9, other than a patch kit, do you have an alternative recommendation to the tire slime for tubed tires?
On the visor part: Sunglasses, I always carry a pair on me and they can be life savers if you only have a clear visor like scrubby me does.
finally some sensible measures in a north american video. (centimeters, grams... ) who understands "3 3/8 inch" or "12.5 ounces" LOL
Probably people in north america, also google
Extra lights? Here in Germany I’m not even allowed to apply reflective stickers :(
Jay´s Gaming Videos sounds a bit like the German laws suck
Here in Russia, reflective stickers apply you.
Tire sealant causes off balance and rust on the wheels so its a no go
One of the worst marketing fads was/is the blacked out motorcycle. Compare a 2009 Suzuki TU-250X (bright red, silver frame, silver forks, chrome headlight bucket , silver muffler) with a 2016....( dark colors, black frame, black forks, black headlight and gauges). This seriously reduced visability. I just bought a 2002 ninja 250 ( bright yellow) ... and it has black chrome mufflers. WTF ! Lights will not compensate adequately for being invisible from most angles.
Greetings from the (wasting away) USA. As a pretext for my question; you should know that I have decades of riding experience, on and off-road; from the desert and mountains of Southern CA to the highway/freeways. Unfortunately, I don't currently own a bike. Hopefully, that be remedied very soon. My question for you is, what are your thoughts about a BMW RT?
I am not really interested in going off-road anymore, I will mainly ride on back-roads and highways. Additionally, I don't want a sport-touring bike that is so large it needs reverse!
Btw that tire slime will eat the inside of your wheel and your mechanic is gonna hate you for it when he changes your tire. Might even charge extra.....we do....just a thought. And in a lot of cases it doesn't work....
Yup. Stuff's only good in an emergency to get you home.
I've used that tire sealent in my old ten speed tires. One bottle did two tires and that was probably too much,but I never had a leak after that!
When you mentioned decibels I was waiting to see if you mentioned the logarithmic scale. That's not well known!✨🙌
So... were inbuilt dark visors (with the toggle switch) not a widespread thing back in 2016? I just got my first bike and I'd say more than half of the helmets had a visor toggle, at every price point too. Obviously I got one, vital when moving between shaded and unshaded areas. Frankly its more convenient than my ranbans, since it is stored in the helmet, I don't have the find a place to put it when I have to disable it unexpectedly.
Instead of going thru the trouble of switching between visors all the time, just get a helmet with integrated tinted visor like my HJC FG-ST. You can just flip it up and down whenever you need it, like in the evening when the sun is low. It's a MUST have!
I don't like the integrated visor because they make the helmet heavier and they don't cover all the down essentially leaving a gap that allows a strip of sunlight in that reflects off the inside of the shields (so now you have two reflections instead of just one). The two I've had were also not completely clear making it difficult to read street signs from a distance. Though I could see the advantage if you were on a road where the lighting cycled from full sunlight to shaded.
Desert Zuki Check out the HJC FG-ST, I have absolutely no problems with reflections.
There are also plenty of helmets with clear visors and flip down shades on the inside.
Although this is true, I think the reason people don't know about them yet is because they are actually relatively new. I had an HJC Spectre I think it was called, and I purchased 5 years ago I believe, and at the time it was billed as the only non-modular full face helmet on the market to have a clear visor and the flip down tinted inner visor. The only other helmets at that time to have them were modular full face helmets. I believe its only been a couple years since they have really started to take off and helmet companies have really embraced them. Hopefully they catch on because they are AMAZING haha! After that HJC, I will never own a helmet without that feature!
I love these videos so much I can't wait to get my ninja 300 and customize it with safety now 😂
In many countries a multiple tone horn is illegal. So they'd need to manufacture two different versions to accommodate you.
I'm glad I found your channel. Very intuitive videos.
You think ,outside the box.all angles.
Be safe,brother.
Light mods in Brazil are forbbiden, unless you paid an amount of R$1.000,00 to the gorvernment to let you ride your bike with auxiliar lights
Awesome video, great ideas, super informative!
Alright hold up. I'm a tire technition. I do tires for a living. Slime and tire sealant is a bunch of BS. The only thing that works is taking the tire off and repairing them correctly.
Use of tire sealant is a huge mistake. Try plugging a hole in a tire with sealant and you could end up in hospital, or worse. Sealant will act as a lubricant to eject the plug at high speed. Very dangerous.
Do more helmet reviews. I don't buy a helmet unless I've seen your take.
I wear a purple pimp suit and use a disco ball, plus they see the bitches and them me, glow in the dark tattoos, I give them so cheap! Make wild animals wear fluorescent fur!
1) I replaced the "Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!" OE button horn on my Suz GSF1200s Bandit with 1 ea.(Hi AND Lo Tone)- FIAMM Freeway Blasters on a custom mount. At 135db(!) That gramma in the convertible Beemer that tried to merge into me WILL NOT soon forget that mis-step.
2) Sorry, just not a fan of "tire goo". Maybe if I was ADV riding, sure. Hey, I know I wouldn't want to be km's away from civilization & have to push my scoot home(!).
3) Ahh, lights!
a) Facing forward, my Bandit has 2 headlamps (Hi & Lo), two WHITE, LED "road lamps" mounted lower on the forks (come on with headlamp), AMBER marker/turns on the forward side of my mirrors, & the OE AMBER marker/turns.
b) To the sides there are L & R/S devided markers (AMBER fore/RED aft) just below the fuel tank, by my knees, OE marker/turns & mirror AMBERS are also slightly visible from the sides.
c) Rear lighting is the OE AMBER marker/turns, RED tail light, RED downward projected LEDs under that, & RED, vertical LED strips on the hard luggage when it's mounted (all RED tails are hooked to a brake strobe module).
Light 'em up!
Fort nine is cool, but--If splitting lanes you can not remember without looking where the horn button lives. Car drivers can’t locate you by sound. Startled, they’ll do weird things...
Tire pressure monitors better, checked daily. Flash when tires deflating, saved me this year; green stuff screws TPMs up.
Lights are critical. Can get LEDS for around $50, aim a little outward to cars adjacent.
Accents, nope. ASSUME YOU IS INVISIBLE!
Change visor? lol. The rest of the world has been enjoying clear visors with an internal pull down shade when the sun comes out. Just pull that lever when needed.