I have put my kickstand down and has worked at some lights,other times if I can't make a right turn,I'll just run the red light.

 

Ya, I hear you and you are correct. But unless it's a trooper, most law enforcement around here is decent if you don't get an attitude. And if they do write me up I figure I can always subpoena the intersection to prove my case about a non-changing light. Would be hard to defend the avoiding a traffic control device.

The best thing, I suppose then, is to contact (email or phone) local and state lawmakers and make them aware of this issue. Would be saweeet if we could get a law on the books specifically for us. However, the current law says you treat a malfunctioning traffic light as a 4 way stop ... my interpretation is if it don't see me it's frikkin malfunctioning

 

Chain if I'm not mistaken Georgia has changed their law to help us out.
If it doesn't change, w can proceed with caution.

 

As far as I know, the sensors are actually magnetic field based, rather than weight or pressure based. They operate by creating a magnetic field that extends above the road. Thus the large hunk of metal (car) changes the magnetic field more substantially than the small hunk of metal (bike). As mentioned previously, sometimes putting the kickstand down makes the difference (gets the metal that much closer to the coils).

 

plenty of lights like that out here on route 30....i take them all the time even the one at the police station...just i have a different end scenario than most

 

Well as an experiment I attached magnets to the bottom of my fairing.I had a roll of magnetic tape laying around the garage and went out to test it on this one light that never changes for bikes and guess what it works.

 

I don't see why that would work at most lights. Traffic lights are usually on a timer, or a signal under the road. Are bikes are all aluminum so they don't pick us up. So where exactly did you mount that tape? Maybe I should get some too.

 

I mounted it on the bottom of my lower fairing just behind the front wheel.

 

There are 2 or 3 types of light traffic sensor. 1 is triggered by weight, which very few bikes will trigger if not adjusted correctly. Another is motion detectors (but not a lot of those). The other is triggered by detecting changes in the magnetic field over the sensor.

Most motorcycles don't have enough metal in them to trip the magnetic sensor types if they're set for cages. That's where light changers, dropping the kickstand sometimes or a strong enough magnet come in

 

new missouri law says i can run it if it has not changed in an unreasonable time.