I don’t think our horns were disabled but I’m not certain. Seems as if the horn is an important piece of safety equipment that even the newest of newbies would be capable of using and it is totally ignored by the MSF. My scooter has a Stebel horn which is like a little fog horn, pretty startling coming from such a small bike. The Duc has a standard motorcycle, meep meep, horn.
Back to what Eon wrote, we definitely don’t use the horn as a warning device as it was originally intended, we tend to use it in anger. I’ll actually quote myself, I was in India last year and if anybody has ever been there, one thing they’ll never forget is the roads, they are truly something to see, but an observation that I made in a blog that I kept was, “The horn, which is never dormant for more than a few seconds, is used as an alert ‘Hey I’m here look out for me,’ rather than the loud ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ we use it for back home.” The Indian roads are crammed with every vehicle imaginable on 2, 3, 4 or more wheels. Things that would literally be a felony here are accepted as normal every day driving maneuvers. I was there right before I became obsessed with all things two wheeled so didn’t take note of the types of bikes that I was seeing, only with the fact that you’d see entire families on tiny scooters(infant on the handlebars, no I am not shitting you). If anybody is interested in reading the blog it can be found http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/ranette/1/tpod.html