The innate perversity of inanimate objects

Offer the kids ten dollar reward?

I dissemble small objects over, and in a Sterlite tote.

Good luck on your pocket knife. I'm serious about offer a reward to the kids.

I love moments like that.

What kids? My youngest is 36 and living in New York. Neighbor's grandkids are only here some weekends.

This was ~15 years ago. I'm rarely out in the wee hours anymore. Pretty much all of the lights using the buried-in-pavement-wire sensor did this though. I don't recall any of them detecting my motorcycle no matter where I was setting over them. This particular street has a lot of them too.

They don't give one whit about motorcyclists around here. If they did they wouldn't be installing the bastard median barrier cables up and down all our expressways...

Heh. When I went to school in Anoka, "a couple" is ALL there were. You had to wait more for trains than stop lights. (Before Rum River Hills Golf Club was conceived, it was my grandfather's farm.)

It might be interesting to make a loop of heavy copper wire that encloses your bike. It would have to be out of the way and unobstrusive to be acceptable, but you might be able to contrive that. It should be an electrically closed loop with maximum possible area. See if that increases the bike's "visibility" to inductive loop sensors.

I like how you think Don, always have :)

A true engineer trying to solve the problem. I tried a few different positions for where my bike was setting, but that is about all you can reasonably do and keep an eye on traffic too. You can't do much to the motorcycle either without messing with your ground clearance and/or maneuverability. It would be fun to play with, if I could find a traffic engineer that was interested in messing with it. But those days are long gone I'm afraid... They might have even addressed the problem by know. As I said, this was awhile ago and I haven't been in a position to test them for many years now.

Do appreciate hearing though that I wasn't missing something simple that would have solved the problem :)

Don't know when you last revisited Anoka, but things have changed in recent years. The two lights I refer to on 10 are the one on Sunfish Lake Rd and the one before it, whatever that is. I don't care what's after that because I go north on Sunfish Lake Rd to the range I frequent which is up near St. Francis.

US 10 is now freeway on what used to be 47, all the way past Main going north, then the lights start between there and Big Laake and Elk River. Those lights jam things up good in the northbound direction starting about 1500.

Last time was 2003. It was a) an actual city, and b) a foreign one at that. I had no idea where I was most of the time (except by consulting a map). Last visit before then was, I think, back ~82ish, so yes, _huge_ change. Go back to my first recollections in '63, and except for a curve of the road here, a building there, completely unrecognizable.

We would have always headed north on 47 (St. Francis Blvd) so even if I had much recollection, it wouldn't include that section of 10.

The farmhouse is still there, and the windmill was still there in '03, freewheelingly squeaking in the wind, though my uncle in Bradford/Cambridge informs me the wheel was chained down shortly after that, and the whole tower came down a couple years ago. Someone got a whole bunch of galvanized angle...

Yup, way too much city for me.

That's understandable if you liked northern NH, where Entering XX and Leaving XX are on opposite sides of the same sign.

jsw

"Jim Wilkins" > ....

That's understandable if you liked northern NH, where Entering XX and Leaving XX are on opposite sides of the same sign.

jsw

Here it is EnteringXX on _both_ sides! heh heh .... It's two of the above mentioned signs back to back on the same pole........

If there's an Entering XX sign, _that's_ to much city. (just for Larry) ;-)

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:00:02 -0600, Steve Ackman wrote the following:

"Too" much city. Grok that.

Vive l'Hermit!