Traffic Light Trigger

Have any of you mounted a "GREEN LIGHT Stop Light Trigger" under your WR? The ad says "It's really quite simple, slap on the bottom of your bike, drive over the sensor in the road, the light is aware that you've arrived, and you'll get the green light just as if you're a car or truck."

I'm curious, has your WR failed to trigger signal lights?

Mine always triggers (not sure how many different intersections I've 'tested', maybe 50?)

I've had it not happen on more than one occasion, there are several lights near me I know of off hand that I wait I'll be waiting a long long time. Its legal for bikes to run lights that don't trip (once you've ensured that they do in fact cycle without letting you go) and I've done it more than once, almost always at night on empty roads.

Yeah, I head for work at 4am and hit about 20 to 30 traffic signals, non of which sense that I'm sitting atop the switch pads. My truck clicks them almost as soon as it touches the pad. I was just wondering if it's worth the fifteen bucks to slap a magnet under my scoot.

Here the sensors are a wire loop. It's a rectangular shape with the long border at least the length of an average car, but in some place as big as 2 car lengths. Not sure how deep under the road surface they put the wire (2 inches, 3?) Where bicycles use the left turn lanes they put 3 yellow dots directly above the right side wire, which is usually about 2 feet in from the right edge of the lane.

The key point is to place the (motor)bike directly above the loop wire. But yes, some lights' loops are not set up correctly and bicycles cannot trigger them. To date, knock on metal, my WR has triggered every light.

Don't waste your money, they don't work. Rare earth magnets don't work either. Ask me how I know.

I would beg to differ. I have put one of the green light triggers on mr WR. I used to get left at many a stop light coming home from school late at night. Couldn't trigger the switch in the asphalt. Not enough mass, metal, or whatever. I put the green light trigger on 5 months ago, haven't been left at a light since. In fact, it is more effective now than my VStrom 1000.

BG

I had a Signal Sorcerer on a sportbike that helped a lot. I would get stuck at lights all the time before installation. It didn't make a difference with some intersections but at others it did. After more research I discovered that the issue is whether or not the signal you're at has functioning sensors in the ground that complete the circuit to initiate the light-changing sequence. And that's something you just can't control.