I rarely use my horn.  If someones sitting at a stoplight in front of me flipping through the morning paper or applying makeup and the light turns green, Ill give them a quick "blip" on the throttle.  If someones coming into my lane, the blip turns a little more ferocious. 

My favorite is when said person, that swerved into my lane, is on a cell phone, and they pull up next to me at a light.....  makes my day!!  Especially if they are in a convertible.  No blip, just idle.  Love it when they give me a nasty glare and slam their cell phone shut!!!

Any other Monsters participate in this silliness?   

I've done it a few times.  I look at it as an extention of the 'loud pipes save lives' philosophy.  It's much more effective now that I actually have LOUD pipes 

yes, monster horns are worthless, i use the blip all the time, stupid people that dont pay attention at lights especially.

I sometimes blip to alert cars that look like they are about to do something dangerous while I am lane sharing.

I've actually held throttle open at a full roar in my trucks and on my bikes, when sitting next to someone paying more attention to the phone than driving. I just keep opening the throttle a little more till they give up and hang up the phone. If they give me a dirty look I just wag my finger at them like a naughty child, I've been known to blow kisses to extremely irate men too. 

I don't have a horn on my bike anymore...so yes...I use the exhaust to remind ppl that I'm there. 

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Pick up a Nautilus horn and then you can wake them up from a much greater distance...

Quote from: NeufUnSix on June 01, 2008, 11:16:37 AM
Pick up a Nautilus horn and then you can wake them up from a much greater distance...

I do that, along with cruising right next to people on their cell phone. I'm typically in one to 2 gears lower than I need to be!

Especially when splitting up to a light, just to make sure that they know i'm there.  Sometimes this results in a little more room. 
If the light goes green before i reach the front i'm not surprising anyone by sliding into whichever line has the best gap.

The horn.. heeeee.. i'm surprised there aren't more threads on horn-mods and replacements, though it sounds like people just remove it in other states.  AFAIK it's a requirement in California, i'd really like a beefier one, i tend to announce my presence with it at intersections with someone waiting for a right-turn into my direction of travel.

I do it all the time. I have cut down Termi's which are loud as fook.   If I blip someone at a stoplight to get em going they're out of there pretty fast or if someone is just snailing along I'll give em a blast as well.

Every ride.

Problem is most of the time you don't hear the bike until it is beside or ahead of you (haven't you noticed driving in your own car?) Fine if you are in someone's blind spot, but if you are behind them at all, you need a beefy horn to get their attention, pipes don't help much.

I'm not arguing against pipes, I like noise from my exhausts, just saying that if you want to be noticed a good horn is a better idea (and isn't going to get you tickets).

The horn is simply amusing compared to my arrows, they do most of the talking for me.

My bike has a horn?  My exhaust is my "hey, you can turn right at a stoplight", "hey, that light turned green while you were browsing the sports section", "hey, you can make a left when there's a 20 car length break in traffic" communicating device.