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(07-09-2022, 07:32 AM)Wagonpeddler_imp Wrote: Was just going to begin a thread about this issue. After all my Hondas over the past 50 years ago, I get this curve thrown at me with the turn signal button where the horn SHOULD be. Can't count how many times I've gone for the horn and ended up pressing the signal button. Guess I'll just have to get used to the new configuration.
Getting my safety inspection (VA requires one every year) I always honk the horn when the guy asks for a turn signal check. Five years later he has written me off as an idiot.
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'Wagonpeddler Wrote:Guess I'll just have to get used to the new configuration.
Or do what I did and switch my 14 back to the 13 controls.
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My first experience with Honda's weird decision to mess with all of us was with my newish CB300R. Looking over the bike for the first time, I noticed the weird placement of the horn button. Didn't take too long to program my thumb to go a little lower for the turn signals. After all, I had spent years with BMW's little tabs at the bottom of both hand controls for left and right turn signals.
What threw me was getting back on to my '13 CB1100 for the first time afterwards and hitting the horn when I wanted the turn signals. The first time was approaching an intersection. There was a car to my immediate left with a little boy in the passenger seat looking at me, so I was able to play it off with a wave hello.
The second time, there was an attractive lady in the passenger seat of the car next to me. I started to wave, but noticed the guy in the driver seat glaring at me, so I just used my raised hand to fiddle with something on my helmet...
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During the 2000s, while I still had Hondas, Suzukis, and Triumphs, I also had a succession of 4 Moto Guzzi V11s. I never got used to having the turn signal and horn buttons transposed. And each time I got another Guzzi, I swore I'd change that left hand switch, but never did.
It got to the point where I never even used the turn signal or horn on the Guzzis, and finally just gave up on Guzzis themselves. But the newer V7s have reverted back to the traditional horn on the bottom.
In an emergency situation, you can't waste a millisecond deciding where a horn switch is.
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(05-25-2021, 08:20 AM)PowerDubs_imp Wrote: Just put '13 switches (both sides) on ALL your bikes...as it looks the most like what should be on a motorcycle!
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Normally, I'm the OCD guy who frets over such things. In this case, by the time I'm signaling at the end of the driveway I'm re-calibrated. Maybe it's because I ride several bikes with switches in various locations, but it feels perfectly natural to me regardless of the non traditional arrangement. My two favorite configurations were my R1200C that had a left signal button on the left and a right signal button on the right, and my R60 that has a rotary switch on the right bar end that you can bump up or down with your thumb knuckle. The horn on that one is activated by pushing in on that same switch.
