On the whistle?
One summer night I was riding a motorcycle near Bobolice. It was raining a little, dark, you know, night. But I wasn’t afraid of darkness or rain then and the road through beautiful forests was quite impressive.
In enjoying the ride, I was disturbed by the awareness that these beautiful forests are certainly inhabited by game and there is nothing more dangerous for a motorcyclist than a wild boar or a deer falling out of the forest onto the road.
For a two-wheeler, such a meeting must end badly. A low wild boar is hardly visible, because it is hardly visible at all, and in addition slightly below the height at which the motorcyclist observes the road. Roe deer is known, a piece of calf that will knock down any cub on the asphalt. And suddenly.
The specificity of the movement of wild animals is such that they do not make well-thought-out, from the human perspective, movements. On the contrary, they move by jumps and certainly without reflection on road traffic, not to mention its safety.
I am writing about my situation on a two-wheeler, but for the driver of the car meeting with wild animals also ends up being a problem. W najlepszym razie dzik urwie p贸艂 przodu a sarna zamelduje si臋 w przedniej szybie i oby nie dalej.
You are probably wondering why the inhabitants of the forest do not give way to headlights, the noise of tires and the roar of the engine. Well, they are somewhat used to these sounds by now, and unfortunately, it seems that in a wild boar family, the story of an uncle boar hit by a car is rarely repeated.
There are two ways to deal with this situation. On the one hand, it is increased observation of the road and the use of additional lighting when driving at night through forested or meadow areas. However, the use of additional lights is only possible when we are alone on the road.
In our reality, we rarely have this comfort and even a short inclusion of the so-called. long, it doesn’t seem like much because the standard lighting „remains” on the road and does not allow us to „search” around its edges. This is what the legislator has already foreseen.
Another way to protect yourself and your prey is to scare them away. The police use such solutions called LRAD, which produce sounds with a deterrent frequency, which is extremely practical when dispersing demonstrations.
Well, such an LRAD is neither cheap nor small, so using it in your vehicle, especially a two-wheeler, is quite out of the question. Fortunately, there is something that works on a similar principle and effectively warns forest dwellers against going out on the road
Siren7 is, to put it simply, a whistle, but one that is driven by the rush of air flowing into the device and the sound emitted is completely inaudible to a person sitting in the cabin of a car or on a motorcycle because it has a frequency of 3 kHz.
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The whistle itself is not much bigger than a car key and is dressed in a shapely housing, so even when mounted in a visible place, it seems to be more of an ornament than a clutter. In turn, the assembly consists only in gluing Siren7 to the body of the vehicle. And that’s all.
It is important when considering the installation location that the air flow is constant and undisturbed. As you can see, I hid my Siren7 in the air intake to the radiator in the front bumper. The air flows freely and the intake opening is large enough that even in the rain the whistle will produce its whistle.
When mounting on a two-wheeler, remember not to attach the Siren7 to excessively moving elements, e.g. the front wheel mudguard. A good place is the shelf of the front suspension lag or around the headlight bowl.
