WJBertrand
Ventura Highway
Bought one of these a year ago (https://www.safer-turn.com/us/) and finally got around to pulling it off the bench and installing it this weekend.
This is a pretty cool little gadget and it works really well, brilliantly in fact. It's even sensitive enough to detect a lane change unless you just kind of drift lanes and don't make any kind of positive steering movement, even then it'll time out after 30 seconds or so. When making a real turn it cuts the signal just as the bike comes back to vertical after the turn. The lane change feature seems to blink one or two more times than I would if canceling manually as I found myself punching the cancel switch to no effect. Since you defeat the "latching" of the OEM switch with some little foam pads (supplied). Manually canceling it in the normal way doesn't work. Took me a few miles to figure out that you have to push the switch again in the same direction to cancel manually. There will hardly ever be a need to do that however.
STS Could do a lot better with the instructions though. Making model specific instructions, or even plug 'n' play kits, would be a lot of work on their end but it would have saved my a ton of time at my end. Took me an hour or so to identify the correct connector for the turn signal switch harness. The wire colors in their generic downloadable instructions were incorrect for Yamaha, at least for the Super Tenere anyway. Between the service manual and disassembling the left switch pod (which you must do anyway to insert the little foam anti-latching pads) I was finally able to confirm the wire colors and locate the connector under the right side electrical panel. I also had to play with the my VOM quite a bit to confirm which side of the connector led to the switch pod and which side led into the bike's electrical system - it makes a difference hooking up the STS. I also confirmed which wire was left and right measuring the voltage with the switch turned on. Interesting, even though the signal lights are blinking, the voltage remains constant. I guess that makes sense as the flasher module is further buried in the system someplace. The good news is that now I've done all that work for future reference, at least for the Super Tenere and perhaps other Yamahas.
There's a thread over at ST-Owners about this device installation, mostly it seems on 1300s. On that bike you need to make an additional connection to preserve the 4-way emergency flashers. Yamaha must wire these differently to Honda as the 4-ways were not disturbed. Nice.
I had so much fun watching it cancel automatically all day that I never forgot my signals!
This is a pretty cool little gadget and it works really well, brilliantly in fact. It's even sensitive enough to detect a lane change unless you just kind of drift lanes and don't make any kind of positive steering movement, even then it'll time out after 30 seconds or so. When making a real turn it cuts the signal just as the bike comes back to vertical after the turn. The lane change feature seems to blink one or two more times than I would if canceling manually as I found myself punching the cancel switch to no effect. Since you defeat the "latching" of the OEM switch with some little foam pads (supplied). Manually canceling it in the normal way doesn't work. Took me a few miles to figure out that you have to push the switch again in the same direction to cancel manually. There will hardly ever be a need to do that however.
STS Could do a lot better with the instructions though. Making model specific instructions, or even plug 'n' play kits, would be a lot of work on their end but it would have saved my a ton of time at my end. Took me an hour or so to identify the correct connector for the turn signal switch harness. The wire colors in their generic downloadable instructions were incorrect for Yamaha, at least for the Super Tenere anyway. Between the service manual and disassembling the left switch pod (which you must do anyway to insert the little foam anti-latching pads) I was finally able to confirm the wire colors and locate the connector under the right side electrical panel. I also had to play with the my VOM quite a bit to confirm which side of the connector led to the switch pod and which side led into the bike's electrical system - it makes a difference hooking up the STS. I also confirmed which wire was left and right measuring the voltage with the switch turned on. Interesting, even though the signal lights are blinking, the voltage remains constant. I guess that makes sense as the flasher module is further buried in the system someplace. The good news is that now I've done all that work for future reference, at least for the Super Tenere and perhaps other Yamahas.
There's a thread over at ST-Owners about this device installation, mostly it seems on 1300s. On that bike you need to make an additional connection to preserve the 4-way emergency flashers. Yamaha must wire these differently to Honda as the 4-ways were not disturbed. Nice.
I had so much fun watching it cancel automatically all day that I never forgot my signals!
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