Tailight Terror

[FROSTY]

A reminder to one and all. Being midwinter we are all doing a lot more night riding.
Please guys and gals Go check your tailights are working propperly
It'll take you 2 seconds --Go on Humour a senile old man :devil2: :weird:
OK SO YOUR TAILLIGHT IS WORKING??
What bought this on?? you ask.
Tonight I was following a guy on a black @##250 (name removed to protect the idiotic) Said brightspark was riding from town down the norwestern motorway. black bike, black jacket ,dark colored helmet in the fast lane at 100km/h and NO taillight.
This fuckwit was totally unawares of the meyhem he was causing with cars coming up behind him and emergency braking to avoid running up his ass.
Yea yea fucking cages--but would you have blamed em if they'd hit him??
I rode for about 10km behind him -then he did a death dive off the motorway across the face of traffic.
Once I got him to stop he was totally relaxed about the tailight being out
-"ohh yea i keep meaning to have that fixed"
Jeysus dude best ya get it done soon
One time I really really wish i was riding a bike with disco lights

[Ixion]

Good advice. Very good. And check your brake light too. Had to replace li'l ratty's AGAIN tonight. Bloody vibration. Only takes a moment. just a quick look as you put the bike away . Damn hard to pick out a bike from behind if it's got no lights.

[Skunk]

Yeah, there's an RF900 down here with no tail light. Couldn't get him to pull over or understand the pointing at the back of his bike... :no:

[FROSTY]

yea well this guy was literally a moving blip of darkness.
Not just hard to see he was impossible to see

[sAsLEX]

fuck mines bright enough to see if it works backing it out from under the house plus a quick tap on the brakes and the door lights up bright red!

[justsomeguy]

One time Ireally really wish i was riding a bike with disco lights

Actually have you ever thought about it-seriously?? You've got all the good qualities needed - anyone here will tell you that........So??

By the way my lights are fine - check it everytime before I head out..... become a bit of a habit after replacing two bulbs in 2 months.......:mad: bloody cursed bulbs.....good thing they are only $3 a pop unlike those wretched $25 a pop cage bulbs....... aren't bikes the best......:love:

[Zed]

Actually have you ever thought about it-seriously?? You've got all the good qualities needed - anyone here will tell you that........So??

By the way my lights are fine - check it everytime before I head out..... become a bit of a habit after replacing two bulbs in 2 months.......:mad: bloody cursed bulbs.....good thing they are only $3 a pop unlike those wretched $25 a pop cage bulbs....... aren't bikes the best......:love:Hey JSG, have you had your bike repaired yet or you still riding around with a broken right rearset & stuffed brakes? Bulbs are the last of your worries mate. :whistle:

[FROSTY]

zed--I can personally assure you his rearset is welded up and he has rear brakes. Mella yella donated a complete rear brake unit to make sure the zzr was legal

[justsomeguy]

Hey JSG, have you had your bike repaired yet or you still riding around with a broken right rearset & stuffed brakes? Bulbs are the last of your worries mate. :whistle:

Death kindly welded my rear foot bracket, Frosty kindly let me borrow the brake bits and I bought a new indicator from Red Baron...... Got the brakes flushed and bled at Motohaus and everything checked before I went to VTNZ for a WOF rego......(Kerry was sick/not there so couldn't get it there)..........

Got a WOF and Rego and everything :2thumbsup:

All I need is some L-plates and keep it below 120 - uh - I mean 70 on motorways and I'll be a good little boy.

Hopefully by next week that stupid little one inch big $14 elbow would have arrived from Jappaland and I can return Frosty's parts.

Thanks heaps for all the help Frosty and Death

[Zed]

Death kindly welded my rear foot bracket, Frosty kindly let me borrow the brake bits and I bought a new indicator from Red Baron...... Got the brakes flushed and bled at Motohaus and everything checked before I went to VTNZ for a WOF rego......(Kerry was sick/not there so couldn't get it there)..........

Got a WOF and Rego and everything :2thumbsup: Well that's good to hear Guy! It's not what you know...:grouphug:

[inlinefour]

fuck mines bright enough to see if it works backing it out from under the house plus a quick tap on the brakes and the door lights up bright red!

mines the same as it has two seperate bulbs in it :ride:

[justsomeguy]

Well that's good to hear Guy! It's not what you know...:grouphug:

Hell Yeah - KB is the best asexual thing that has happened to me.........

[crashe]

My taillights work.... :niceone: :niceone:
They also light up the garage with I hit the brakes...

[mattt]

Yeh guys it's too easy.
Doing shift work (yeh we have lots of time to ride) half my riding is done at night.
I spent a week with a summer tail light... Summer the time it worked, the rest - it didn't :nono:
Cheers to the guy in the Holden for letting me know. :niceone:

[Eurygnomes]

One time I really really wish i was riding a bike with disco lights

FROSTY!!! My man!! (as it were) What a brilliant idea...it must be possible. Plus, I'm gonna get glitter to go on my helmet, and if possible, on my handlebars too (you guys must remember the bikes at school that had glitter in the handlebar hand thingys!). Yay...my gn250 (if I get it) is gonna be the most 'disco' bike EVER!

Now, how to fit a helmet on over the 'fro....

And is it legal to ride in platform boots?

[James Deuce]

And is it legal to ride in platform boots?

Really good points Frosty.

Eurygnomes: The only protective gear you are compelled to wear on a motorcycle is a helmet. Everything else is up to you, but boots should be there to protect your shins, ankles, and feet. A bimalleolar ankle fracture is not a fun thing to experience. Plus platforms may get hooked up on footrests and foot controls which will mean you will fall over.

[XP@]

Maybe obvious but whilst checking back light also check brake lights. that is BOTH Front and Rear because sometimes one switch or the other will crap out on yer.

[XP@]

FROSTY!!! My man!! (as it were) What a brilliant idea...it must be possible. Plus, I'm gonna get glitter to go on my helmet, and if possible, on my handlebars too (you guys must remember the bikes at school that had glitter in the handlebar hand thingys!). Yay...my gn250 (if I get it) is gonna be the most 'disco' bike EVER!

Now, how to fit a helmet on over the 'fro....

And is it legal to ride in platform boots?

Just posted this in response to a similar question about the head.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=264066#post264066

If you are modifying your helmet then think carefully, because you could destroy it's integrity.

It isn't what you look like on a motorbike that is important it is how you look if you "get off" (unplanned)

[sAsLEX]

Maybe obvious but whilst checking back light also check brake lights. that is BOTH Front and Rear because sometimes one switch or the other will crap out on yer.

Depends on if you use both, plus you shoul brake with both if your that way inclined so there is a touch or redundancy

[stify]

I'm gonna get glitter to go on my helmet, and if possible, on my handlebars too (you guys must remember the bikes at school that had glitter in the handlebar hand thingys!). Yay...my gn250 (if I get it) is gonna be the most 'disco' bike EVER!

Now, how to fit a helmet on over the 'fro....

And is it legal to ride in platform boots?

bloody flamin disco wannabe bikie glamcat.....ya forgot bout the gliltter jump suit

[XP@]

Depends on if you use both, plus you shoul brake with both if your that way inclined so there is a touch or redundancy
Should nearly always use both brakes should we not...?

[sAsLEX]

Should nearly always use both brakes should we not...?
apparently.......

[XTC]

Yeah, there's an RF900 down here with no tail light. Couldn't get him to pull over or understand the pointing at the back of his bike... :no:
Why bother with them?? Should be part of your pre ride inspection as the bike is warming up. What you don't do this??? Shame on you.

[Eurygnomes]

bloody flamin disco wannabe bikie glamcat.....ya forgot bout the gliltter jump suit

I most certainly did not forget the glitter jumpsuit! Just that "the scooter shop" in Wellington was out of them on Tuesday when I went in!

And, for the record, SOMEONE somewhere MUST make glam female armoured riding gear. Because the stuff I bought just about made me cry. But at least I got a nice shiny black (yes, yes, I'm non-reflective...I know...I'll put disco lights on the bike, promise!) Shoei lid - that I most certainly am not going to attempt to change in any way whatsoever (and I read the instruction booklet to you know!).

Nomes
P.S. I HATE disco. It's, like, the worst fashion crime in the century. And I'm off to a bloody 70's party tomorrow night. :oi-grr:

[DingDong]

Checked and alls good, I can see my break lights going down the drive in the house window... but never check the tail light :ride:

[FROSTY]

And, for the record, SOMEONE somewhere MUST make glam female armoured riding gear. Because the stuff I bought just about made me cry. But at least I got a nice shiny black (yes, yes, I'm non-reflective...I know...I'll put disco lights on the bike, promise!) Shoei lid - that I most certainly am not going to attempt to change in any way whatsoever (and I read the instruction booklet to you know!). :
Ohh god please please be taking the piss.
Disco lights are a pseudonym for a police vehicle -ie a cop bike

[Sycophant]

I cracked my rear lens at work once (trying to manouver my bike into a location where it would prevent punters from tripping over cables we'd run up Princess Wharf). I thought the bulb was still okay though.

Then, riding home that night (from Princess Wharf to Birkenhead) I got pulled over by a cop right as I got onto Fanshore St, so within a few hundred meters of my start point, who pointed out that my light wasn't working (this was about midnight). I got off with a warning, after explaining that it had happened a few hours earlier, but that ride home over the bridge was scary as hell. I made sure to fix the light before I rode again. And my bike is red, as is my jacket.

[stify]

Ohh god please please be taking the piss.
Disco lights are a pseudonym for a police vehicle -ie a cop bike


what a sight,mr frosty,cop bike lights on,knee down.. :niceone: