Press it twice, and you get "meep-meep". Italy changed my opinion of the engineers at Piaggio. In Italy, the stock horn fits right in.
In Italy you use the horn politely on blind corners; or just before cutting another vehicle off with brio; or when you coast down a street in Sorrento here we call them sidewalks and want to announce your arrival politely to your friends seated at tables in the street enjoying pizza and drinking Chianti; or when you want to join ten or fifteen other drivers who are honking to 'help' clear congested traffic. Those uses account for And "meep-meep" or sometimes " meeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!
You see, in Italy the people in the cars KNOW they are sharing the road with motorbikes, and expect to be cut off with brio. That won't do here. Here when you need your horn, you have to get the attention of Cadillac Escalades in the hands of well-meaning, well-heeled, but distracted, assassins. Fortunately the Italians invented just the thing for North American needs. It's name is the Stebel Compact Nautilus, and it's an air horn for motorbikes.
The trick nowadays is finding one of these gems. The manufacturer seems to have discontinued them likely too little demand in Italy; too few buyers here. Fortunately I have one. This is not especially difficult. First find a Stebel Compact Nautilus on Ebay and snatch it up. Once you have it, the bit that's tricky, is getting the right kind of juice to the horn.
The stock horn gets all the power it needs straight from the horn button. The Stebel horn is a serious horn. It needs power straight from the battery.
When in operation it draws close to 20 amps. It needs its own fuse I use a 25A fuse. Here's wiring diagram that I made for the installation. If you click on it you'll get a larger more user-friendly image. The first thing you need to do to get the installation going is to open up the bike. I reckon I could do it again in about 40mins now that I know what to do and have these instructions. I removed the fuel tank.
I wanted the trumpets to face outwards, away from the bike so the sound would carry more effectively, so I put the bracket oriented to the right as you are looking at the bike. This is also is the reverse of the GS instructions but it worked nicely. Play around with it. OEM horn meep-meep!! This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 17th, at am and is filed under Horn. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.
When I was your age, my horn was entirely fit for purpose. Could this be penis envy, I wonder? I realise now that the 1st one was an optional extra or fitted by the previous owner. The horn on my current RT is an embarassment. You really need something like the Stebel for riding in London.
Any chance you still have the original printed instructions from this procedure? I saw a vid of one on a Vespa once.
The original RT horn is a total embarrassment, not to mention ineffective to the point of dangerous. It does wake up drivers though! That would be great, thanks.
Something like this? Scratch that. This is why I should probably not be allowed anywhere near my bike with a socket set and some wire crimpers. Roughly what dimensions was your one? It looks quite tight in between the fork stanchions. They did in when I bought mine. As far as I remember, I took this info from the shipping slip that came with the kit. It all seem like fairly generic electrical parts. Best of luck! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
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