Well, stepping away from the controversy, I'd just look at the dash. Gen I's have nice big, easy to see arrow-shaped green turn signal indicators on each side of the speedo.
Gen II's have tiny little itty bitty indicators that are so small that you can't see them blinking as you ride. So when you see an FJR going down the road with its turn signals left on, chances are good it's a Gen II.
Mike thanks, you've hit on the thing that I think is a massive safety issue with bikes and I can't believe self canceling indicators aren't required by law. You take a turn, forget to cancel the indicator. Next turning, the car coming out thinks your turning in so pulls out and SMACK...
that's exactly what happened to a CMA friend of mine...nothing more than a bruised knee, but I started calling her "Flash" riding down the road
she turned right onto a four lane and went about 1/2 mile to the only intersection between two traffic lights. A car come to a stop at the stop sign to her right, and she reflexively slowed down from 35 to 20mph. The car assumed she was going to turn right and pulled out to turn right into the right lane. Friend kept going straight and nose of car stuck out, then braked hard. Kissed the crash bar on the right of the bike and low speed, slow motion wobble started and she low sided at about 5mph. Scary sh*t and I'm the safety officer for our CMA Chapter and she is a good student riding only about a year on a Shadow 750 Aero.
I pondered doing something to prevent my turn signal uncanceling habits, and went with the $33 JCWhitney beeping box wired in.
https://www.jcwhitney.com/extra-loud-electr...r/p2002171.jcwx
Works for me.
The Kissan timer module, to me, doesn't solve the problem. I agree, by law, bikes should all have self canceling turn signals...both by time and distance.
