[TheRomantics]

So I can't stop accidentally honking at people when I use my turn signal lol... Solutions? I'm expecting "stop being so ham fisted" to be popular advice.

 

[V-Tom]

It goes away with time but will re-surface when you change gloves.

I have about 45,000 miles on my 2012 and mainly I don't honk the horn but it does happen every so often and usually with a change of gloves. It was the number one beef about the 2012+ DL650 so don't lose too much sleep over it. You might want to wait on putting on you're steel horn for a while though.

..Tom

 

[hugamongus]

Every spring: honk, blink, blink. Every fall: honk, blink, blink. The glove changes will do it every time. You will get better at not doing it very shortly. At least until you put the heavy gloves on! :yesnod:

Welcome aboard...

 

[middleage crazy]

THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO ME!!!! I've had the same pair of gloves for over 3 years (appx. 21,000 miles) and they are well broken in and aren't that thick. I feel like such a numbnut when I honk while using my turn signal. Thanks for bring it up TheRomantics.

 

[Dark Angel]

Not a problem I've ever experienced

Try rolling your wrist a little forward on the grip, as in holding your wrist straight rather than letting it drop, and your thumb will be higher relative to the switch block and less likely to hit the wrong button.

 

[Freezin'_Geezer]

Honk if you change gloves...

I'll echo V-Tom's glove comment. Needed to ride over to the other side of the state early this AM, and the temp plunged overnight, so I fished-out the electric vest & arm chaps, and the warmest gloves I own. I haven't beeped the horn all summer. This morning, operating the turn signal... you can guess the result. But only the once.

 

[LordSmoke]

By the time I can find the horn button, the situation has usually passed.

 

[Ahnold Stromzenegger]

Curious problem...

You'll know you've got serious problems when every time you intend to honk the horn you get an overwhelming desire to turn left or right...

 

[fredellarby]

I thought it was just an audible adjunct to the visual blinking light. It just didn't always work.:shocked:

 

[MeefZah]

I don't use turn signals.

 

[bwringer]

Don't understand this one.

These controls are in the same place on just about every motorcycle. (BMWs and Herdleys excepted, I think.)

This your first bike or something?

 

[MeefZah]

Don't understand this one.

These controls are in the same place on just about every motorcycle. (BMWs and Herdleys excepted, I think.)

This your first bike or something?

The horn button is fairly close and protrudes farther than the signal switch. I do it all the time, too.

 

[notacop]

Have you tried rotating the control module on the handle bars? I usually can't find the horn button. I've lived with the BMW 3 switch thing for 10 years and really appreciate the simplicity of the single control.
I need to remind myself the high beam momentary switch is forward of the clutch too!

 

[V-Tom]

Don't understand this one.

These controls are in the same place on just about every motorcycle. (BMWs and Herdleys excepted, I think.)

This your first bike or something?

I guess you haven't ridden the 2012+ DL650? There is a slight change with the Turn Signal and Horn location. In over 125,000 miles on my 2006 DL650 I never had any issue with honking the horn when I meant to cancel the signals. When I first got the 2012 I did it almost every day. Now I only seem to do it when I change the gloves I am using.

There was a thread asking about any little complaints on the 2012 DL650. Hitting the horn by accident was a common complaint.

..Tom

 

[Big B]

I honestly have never had that happen, but can see how it is possible.

 

[Dertbikar]

I wanted to reply that this never happens to me but the melee that ensued after replying similarly to the dropped bike thread I have decided to just say no comment....


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[dkayak1]

Me too

I remember that happening for the first couple months, then again after glove changes as noted above. Seems more common with bulkier gloves, which let you mash both buttons at once or to slip off the signal switch and bump the horn briefly? Come to think of it, my initial ownership was early spring which required the heavier gloves. Anyway, it "goes away" eventually.

 

[TheRomantics]

Yeah for those wondering it is my first street bike and/or bike with a Horn.

It's not a real problem and I'm getting better at it. I just thought it was funny and figured it happened to a lot of people.

I felt especially bad when pulling up to a stop sign behind a 30 something year old mother with her two kids. She was doing nothing wrong and I honked at her... lol. I felt bad and kind of waved at her in her mirror not knowing what to do. I think she just thought, what an ass!

I'm sure it will be fine with more practice but yeah, my thumb touches the turn signal and the horn button simultaneously if I'm not careful and the horn button depresses VERY easily on my bike.

 

[PTRider]

So I can't stop accidentally honking at people when I use my turn signal lol... Solutions? I'm expecting "stop being so ham fisted" to be popular advice.

Put on louder horns. You'll be so embarrassed that you'll be ham fisted less often.

Good point above about carrying the wrists straighter.

 

[Solo]

I'm not experiencing this problem

Oops, double post.