Er excuse me, one of your lights is out

[Quasievil]

FUCK, ive had my bike out twice and both times someone has told me one of my lights aint working, first time I passed a car that was signalling a message in cryptic form, she ended up yelling out the window "YOUR LIGHT ISNT WORKING"
this morning riding to the office a lady jumped out of the car at the lights and said "ONE OF YOUR LIGHTS ISINT WORKING"
Obviously they are but I have twin headlights and on low beam only one goes, high beam two go right ,as does many sports bikes.

I guess people just care, or is it the fact that ladies just want to talk to me cause my bike is soooooooo HOT, or is it that they are just bike retarded and dont know any better?
Perhaps even its because having one light is not Feng Shue ?? Fuck knows
Maybe I could get a sign and put on one headlight "ONLY ONE LIGHT GOES ON LOW BEAM,THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN,WHATS YOUR NUMBER"

[Slingshot]

At least they care.


Perhaps you should ride around with your lights on full beam.

[Firefight]

FUCK, ive had my bike out twice and both times someone has told me one of my lights aint working, first time I passed a car that was signalling a message in cryptic form, she ended up yelling out the window "YOUR LIGHT ISNT WORKING"
this morning riding to the office a lady jumped out of the car at the lights and said "ONE OF YOUR LIGHTS ISINT WORKING"
Obviously they are but I have twin headlights and on low beam only one goes, high beam two go right ,as does many sports bikes.

I guess people just care, or is it the fact that ladies just want to talk to me cause my bike is soooooooo HOT, or is it that they are just bike retarded and dont know any better?
Perhaps even its because having one light is not Feng Shue ?? Fuck knows
Maybe I could get a sign and put on one headlight "ONLY ONE LIGHT GOES ON LOW BEAM,THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN,WHATS YOUR NUMBER"



man, you are soooooooooooo right, it totally Fucks me off, so many well meaning pricks come up to me and , Ha new bike aye ?, doya know oneya lights out :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: .

Went for a WOF the other day, some smarmy prick at the testing station(he was not even doing my bike) slouchs over like the the tired prick he was, and yep , you guessed it, "Huh you bloody lights out mate"

Then about a week ago on old GSR ramaranma, Mr :Police: in the Red mufti
turns around follows me up the bloody road to Bombay, pulls me over and yep.

"Na you havn't done anything wrong yet !, just wanted to tell ya ya lights out."


FOR FUCKS SAFE :mad: :mad: :mad:

F/F :(

[Holy Roller]

You can get a mod that makes both lights go but then you may confuse the cage drivers more as they may think you are a cage a long way off. Stupid idea only having one working but thats the requirement for overseas markets. There was an article in superbike mag about 6 months ago about this issue and the mods that can be done to correct it. Usually it is just a plug in modual to activate both lights.

[aff-man]

You can get a mod that makes both lights go but then you may confuse the cage drivers more as they may think you are a cage a long way off. Stupid idea only having one working but thats the requirement for overseas markets. There was an article in superbike mag about 6 months ago about this issue and the mods that can be done to correct it. Usually it is just a plug in modual to activate both lights.

Yip you can build one on the real cheap. :msn-wink:
What did you tell the kind mr :Police: FF????

[Cajun]

Personally i hate the look of only one light going, i would wire it up so both are going, or none. Qausi if you are so worried thats what i would be doing, i think runnign around with one light makes bike look more lopsided also more lights you got on hopeful more someone will see ya

[Blakamin]

People used to do that all the time to my cbr...
that wasn't meant to have one light... but I told them it did because I got sick of them telling me about it! :bleh:
it was a wiring problem but it didnt affect hi beam, so I left it... till one day the friggin thing didnt start... once I rewired it the headlight was fixed,... and people who I told "it only turns them both on with high beam" kept telling me I was on high beam :bash: :bash:

[James Deuce]

People used to do that all the time to my cbr...
that wasn't meant to have one light... but I told them it did because I got sick of them telling me about it! :bleh:
it was a wiring problem but it didnt affect hi beam, so I left it... till one day the friggin thing didnt start... once I rewired it the headlight was fixed,... and people who I told "it only turns them both on with high beam" kept telling me I was on high beam :bash: :bash:

You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo Australian.

Quasi, it's weird eh? We want people to see us and then when they do notice, they pick on what is apparently a flaw.

[Slim]

also more lights you got on hopeful more someone will see ya
Quasi - you should be comforted that these wonderful lady drivers have noticed you! What a look up for the books. :2thumbsup



and people who I told "it only turns them both on with high beam" kept telling me I was on high beam :bash: :bash:
Class m8!!! :killingme

[Paul in NZ]

My fave was the guy in ChCh years ago with the big Volvo s/w (park lights on all the time) that had a personalised plate that said 'I Know'...

Cracked me up every time...

Paul N

[Sniper]

Hehe, yep, I get it too. No idea even from some bikers I get the, "You have your high beams on mate" Umm no, I dont, my bike is just normal!! Or is it?

Quasi, just say, hey thank you, now what did you say your number was again?

[Blakamin]

You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo Australian.

Hey, it was the CBR.... I never even washed it!

[Sniper]

Hey, it was the CBR.... I never even washed it!

Hey why not?? I wash mine and wisper sweet soothing noises before it goes to bed. :baby: :eek:

[StoneChucker]

I don't like the look of em. There should be only one light in total, or, both lights on at the same time. An example of perfection, is the R1, with 4 lights :love:

But then again, I'm anal, and very perfectionistic. I get irritated if things don't look symetrical.

[merv]

Anyway just because Ducati started this trend, truth be known because of their dodgy electrics it wasn't a bad idea not to put such a drain on the system, why the hell did the Japs think it was cool and start turning lights out on the front? Good old bikes like mine have two lights going low or high, which not only has a better look during daylight it sure as hell is great for night time riding when you are on dipped beam with a decent light spread.

So I'm with Stoney on this, don't know about the anal thing, but sure they gotta be symmetrical to look any good. Bikes, women; all the same.

[rodgerd]

I guess people just care, or is it the fact that ladies just want to talk to me cause my bike is soooooooo HOT, or is it that they are just bike retarded and dont know any better?

Retarded? You should be GETTING DOWN ON YOUR KNEES and thanking whatever you believe in that they NOTICE YOU.

[riffer]

Retarded? You should be GETTING DOWN ON YOUR KNEES and thanking whatever you believe in that they NOTICE YOU.


One light, two lights, four lights - I'm ot too fussed. As Roger says, be glad they notice you.

I'd like one of those headlight modulators, but I'm not too sure about legalities - I guess you could put a switch on the handlebar to control it.

Actually come to think about it, is there anything in the road rules which prevents you having a modulating red/blue light? :whistle:

[Coldkiwi]

hehe- I nearly made a tosser of myself by running over to a 916 filling up in Hamilton a few years ago to tell him that.. luckily I didn't get time and figured it out later :)

Sorry Quasi, but it serves you right for not getting it fixed! one headlight looks bloody stupid on any bike. I was paranoid about my GSXR having only one working light on low beam (the 02 apparently only uses one) but thankfully the suzuki engineers got their A into G for the 03 model. Cheers boys!!

[Ghost Lemur]

This is such a classic thread.

Gotta agree with the one light looking wrong, tis like a woman with only one breast, or (equality and all that) a guy with only one testicle.

[vifferman]

This is such a classic thread.

Gotta agree with the one light looking wrong, tis like a woman with only one breast, or (equality and all that) a guy with only one testicle.Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle? :Pokey:

[merv]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle? :Pokey:

Maybe he's looking in the mirror!

[BM-GS]

For this one you can blame the Europeans: they have a law which says something to the effect that: all bikes sold after such-&-such date shall not display 2 headlights (unless on high beam) so that people who drive cars don't get confused.

Either they're trying to save us from ourselves, or they think the average car driver is even more stupid than most bikers do. Maybe the politicians got confused, and so passed the law to stop them getting into too befuddled a state?

If you can't tell the difference between a car far away and bike close up, you probably should take your test again...

It wouldn't be too bad if bike headlights were good enough that you didn't need two! Also, lots of Europe gets dark at going-home-from-work time, so a lot of miles are covered in the dark. Not like here, where it's civilised.

GS feller

[Sniper]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle? :Pokey:

Haha, classic, but yea, ummm, bit worried there. :shifty: :gob: :eek:

[vifferman]

For this one you can blame the Europeans: they have a law which says something to the effect that: all bikes sold after such-&-such date shall not display 2 headlights (unless on high beam) so that people who drive cars don't get confused.As stupid as it might sound, I can understand the logic, and I bet at first glance in poor visibility conditions (dark and rainy or foggy), many people would have difficulty picking a two-headlight bike in the near distance as such and not as a car/truck further away.

Wonder what the date is? The latest model VFR has four headlights, and as far as I know, it has two illuminated at a time. It may be, though, that they don't really look like two (previous models had two, but these look more like one at night, due to a combined lens).

[Quasievil]

Anyway just because Ducati started this trend, truth be known because of their dodgy electrics it wasn't a bad idea not to put such a drain on the system, why the hell did the Japs think it was cool and start turning lights out on the front? Good old bikes like mine have two lights going low or high, which not only has a better look during daylight it sure as hell is great for night time riding when you are on dipped beam with a decent light spread.

So I'm with Stoney on this, don't know about the anal thing, but sure they gotta be symmetrical to look any good. Bikes, women; all the same.
I hear what youre saying but the dipped single light on my Bike is absolutely outstanding at night, with both on full beam its fucken unreal, love the lights

[Sniper]

I hear what youre saying but the dipped single light on my Bike is absolutely outstanding at night, with both on full beam its fucken unreal, love the lights

As in ow, my eyes, you have burnt my retina out owwwwww!!!!! :bleh:

[Quasievil]

Im not sure how you can relate a headlight to a pair of boobs or your balls but whatever turns you on, just dont get to close to my bike okay no hanky panky with the kwaky

I actually think that one headlight looks cool, as did the 916 when it started the trend, I think it looks racy and styley, as opposed to a all lights on approach.
One light or two on my bike makes no difference on visibility during the day as the single light is very powerful

interesting reading your thoughts though:headbang:

[Ghost Lemur]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle? :Pokey:

I notice you are not alone in being more interested in the testicles side of the analogy rather than the breasts... interesting. :Pokey:

[inlinefour]

FUCK, ive had my bike out twice and both times someone has told me one of my lights aint working, first time I passed a car that was signalling a message in cryptic form, she ended up yelling out the window "YOUR LIGHT ISNT WORKING"
this morning riding to the office a lady jumped out of the car at the lights and said "ONE OF YOUR LIGHTS ISINT WORKING"
Obviously they are but I have twin headlights and on low beam only one goes, high beam two go right ,as does many sports bikes.

I guess people just care, or is it the fact that ladies just want to talk to me cause my bike is soooooooo HOT, or is it that they are just bike retarded and dont know any better?
Perhaps even its because having one light is not Feng Shue ?? Fuck knows
Maybe I could get a sign and put on one headlight "ONLY ONE LIGHT GOES ON LOW BEAM,THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN,WHATS YOUR NUMBER"

I get people coming up to me when I get out of my Toyota Surf, and of course its still running. "Are you not going to turn it off" or "hey ya truck is still running". I generally reply with either: dont wory its well behaved and will turn itself off or it will turn itself off once it is ready.
I find it funny, but dont believe that its anything to get upset about, I guess unless some dumb arse is jumping out in frount of it waiving their arms. But hey people for whatever reason will do dumb arse things when its a bike. The same people jump outta the way when I come rambling through in the Surf... :finger:

[crashe]

Hmmmm I must admit that I didnt know that about the lights on certain sportbikes....until recently.... I also thought that the light bulb had blown.... :ride:

So we all learn something new everyday.... :2thumbsup

The other day I was following a black surf... and as we had both stopped.. I thought hmmm something is wrong here.... until I realised that I couldnt see my headlight reflecting back at me... from the back of the surf.....
Damn it was the day before the WOF was due..... I had lost the low beam... and had high beam working..... until I was heading down to the bike shop to get the light sorted out and in the 5 minutes to ride to the shop the full beam went as well.... $12 later for new lightbulb...
That was the only way I knew the bulb had blown especially riding during the daytime..... :ride:

[Blakamin]

YES I FUCKING KNOW...... NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE YOU C*NT! :angry2:

I wonder if that would be an appropriate response???

[avgas]

I mean with the lights on a car, you can tell how wide it is at night, so on a bike........errrrrrrrr................2 lights tells you....................OK, WTF!!!!
Everyone should disconnect one light from theyre bikes - then we will all get notied on the road :Punk: :scooter:

[Blakamin]

I mean with the lights on a car, you can tell how wide it is at night, so on a bike........errrrrrrrr................2 lights tells you....................OK, WTF!!!!
Everyone should disconnect one light from theyre bikes - then we will all get notied on the road :Punk: :scooter:
sux if you only got the one tho! ;)

[crashe]

sux if you only got the one tho! ;)

Yeah I reckon..... cos I only got one light on my baby. :scooter:

[Storm]

I think I will keep mine on. It may not actually help me that much to get noticed by other motorists, but I like to think it does, and I'll take all the advantages I can get thanks :shit:

[6Chris6]

man, you are soooooooooooo right, it totally Fucks me off, so many well meaning pricks come up to me and , Ha new bike aye ?, doya know oneya lights out :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: .

Went for a WOF the other day, some smarmy prick at the testing station(he was not even doing my bike) slouchs over like the the tired prick he was, and yep , you guessed it, "Huh you bloody lights out mate"

Then about a week ago on old GSR ramaranma, Mr :Police: in the Red mufti
turns around follows me up the bloody road to Bombay, pulls me over and yep.

"Na you havn't done anything wrong yet !, just wanted to tell ya ya lights out."


FOR FUCKS SAFE :mad: :mad: :mad:

F/F :(
OOooopse :o

I know I've said this to you

[gav]

Think it was in Aus when the first 916 came out, they had trouble getting ADR compliance nad at one stage the front fairing was replaced with another fairing that just had a square headlight replacing the twin headlights! Ducati Oz gave the original fairing and twin headlights when the bikes were sold but for a while you could only register one with the square headlight, think this was becuase the headlight were different with the high beam being a projector type headlight unit.

[loosebruce]

Think it was in Aus when the first 916 came out, they had trouble getting ADR compliance nad at one stage the front fairing was replaced with another fairing that just had a square headlight replacing the twin headlights! Ducati Oz gave the original fairing and twin headlights when the bikes were sold but for a while you could only register one with the square headlight, think this was becuase the headlight were different with the high beam being a projector type headlight unit.

Yea shit i remember seeing a few pics in performance streetbike a while back of the square light fitted, now that was ugly as sin, poor aussies having to put up with crap like that to go with the noise restrictions n all.

Maybe Quasi should look at something like that to or buy a gixxer
:Pokey:

[750Y]

just in case any of You guys with modern sportsbikes tries to convert from single to dual headlights on low beam, remember that the reflector bucket on the 'high only' side is shaped for high beam and so running a low beam through it will cause it to point upwards into peoples eyes like a normal high beam except with less brightness.

[Quasievil]

Maybe Quasi should look at something like that to or buy a gixxer
:Pokey:[/QUOTE]
Like fuck:ar15:

[scumdog]

If the bike has two lights I would have thought it made good sense to have both of them working on dip as well as full, for a start it LOOKS better and I thought it would be good for safety, i.e. I should imagine it would be pretty exiting to come up to a bend just as a car is coming the other way, you dip you lights and THEN find out the dip light has 'ceased to function' :shit:

'Course us mere mortals with only one headlight run that risk all the time - but it adds to the danger/excitement aspect to riding along with speeding, camera cars, wandering stock, dopey drivers etc, in fact it is all sounding rather too risky to ride at all. ;) :ride:

[JohnBoy]

yea i feel your pain, ive got the same set up.
but if people flash me (crypically) i just show them full beam and they figure it out pretty quick! :shit:

[vifferman]

but if people flash me (crypically) i just show them full beam and they figure it out pretty quick!I'm quite surprised that I had so very few people flash their lights at me when I've had higher wattage bulbs in my bikes. The VF500 had a 130/90W bulb, with large-gauge cables direct from the battery to a relay behind the headlight, and because the reflector was well designed/engineered had very good lighting.
The VFR750 initially had the stupid Honda bulbs (different pins to H4s) which were only 45W :shit: , so I replaced them with dual 100/80W bulbs, which were OK, reasonable lighting, but not as good as the single one on the VF.
The VTR1000 had the 130/90W from the VF, no relay, until the low beam filament burned out.
I dunno what the VifFerrari's lights perform like (other than that they're 60/55W) as I've yet to ride it at night. They should be OK, but apparently not as good as the new VFRs which have very good lighting with their 4-bulb set up.

Next thing is to get a replacement horn or two, as the one on the VifFerrari is squeakily pathetic. Best setup I had was dual horns on the VFR750, wired to a relay. The horns were nothing special, but the extra current made a big difference.

[Blakamin]

Next thing is to get a replacement horn or two, as the one on the VifFerrari is squeakily pathetic. Best setup I had was dual horns on the VFR750, wired to a relay. The horns were nothing special, but the extra current made a big difference.
You could try Gmans trick and fit twin airhorns :pinch:

[scroter]

Maybe I could get a sign and put on one headlight "ONLY ONE LIGHT GOES ON LOW BEAM,THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN,WHATS YOUR NUMBER"

.... "AND HAVE YOU GOT A HOT SISTER/MOTHER/DAUGHTER" :buggerd:

[vifferman]

You could try Gmans trick and fit twin airhorns :pinch:I have to be veeeerrrry careful, as I've already had the "Now you don't need to fix anything on this bike, right?!?" question (welll... more of a command, I guess:doh: ), plus a few related ones.
But in the last two days I've had two nongs cut me off, and tootling them vigorously just seemed so ghey...
Might have to play the SafetyCard™ - that usually works.:msn-wink:

It must be that the VifFerrari is so blue and so purty, and so nice and unthreatening. I've had more near-misses in the few weeks I've had it than I had the whole time (14 munce?) I had the FahrtSturm.
LoudPipesClearTheWay?
LoudPipesScareTheCrapOuttaBraindeadMorons? :spudwhat:

[JohnBoy]

You could try Gmans trick and fit twin airhorns :pinch:

a mate of mine did that on his gsxf750 with bloddy loud results, but i just told him to pipe the compressor into his air box... hmm home made turbo!! :wacko:

[Cajun]

I have to be veeeerrrry careful, as I've already had the "Now you don't need to fix anything on this bike, right?!?" question (welll... more of a command, I guess:doh: ), plus a few related ones.
But in the last two days I've had two nongs cut me off, and tootling them vigorously just seemed so ghey...
Might have to play the SafetyCard™ - that usually works.:msn-wink:

It must be that the VifFerrari is so blue and so purty, and so nice and unthreatening. I've had more near-misses in the few weeks I've had it than I had the whole time (14 munce?) I had the FahrtSturm.
LoudPipesClearTheWay?
LoudPipesScareTheCrapOuttaBraindeadMorons? :spudwhat:
Father in law got a nice shirt he got from the states,

LOUD PIPES SAVE LIFES

and its true,

[rodgerd]

YES I FUCKING KNOW...... NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE YOU C*NT! :angry2:

I wonder if that would be an appropriate response???

No.

People are trying to be helpful. Why would you behave like a cunt in response? What do you think they'll do next time they see a biker, who may actually need a hand?

[Deano]

YES I FUCKING KNOW...... NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE YOU C*NT! :angry2:

I wonder if that would be an appropriate response???

As much as I would have liked to respond like that, the last person to point out I only had one headlight going was the Policeman who had just breathtested me.

And I didn't take my helmet off for him neither.

[Blakamin]

LOL... I was only kidding, but the frustration :brick:

[scumdog]

No.

People are trying to be helpful. Why would you behave like a cunt in response? What do you think they'll do next time they see a biker, who may actually need a hand?

Yeah, the thought did cross my mind too, wasn't sure if it was a troll or not, heres hoping it was only said in jest!! :yeah:

[Blakamin]

As much as I would have liked to respond like that, the last person to point out I only had one headlight going was the Policeman who had just breathtested me.

And I didn't take my helmet off for him neither.
Um...yeah, tellin him to fuck off wouldnt have been in your best interests...
I DID say that to Gman at work when he came in everyday for a week tellin me my light wasnt working... smart bars tard!

[Deano]

Um...yeah, tellin him to fuck off wouldnt have been in your best interests...
I DID say that to Gman at work when he came in everyday for a week tellin me my light wasnt woring... smart bars tard!

Yeah, I had better disclaim my agreement to the response before I get flamed as well. :pinch:

[Holy Roller]

You could try Gmans trick and fit twin airhorns :pinch:
Had them on my GPZ back in he 80's
Used them in anger several times :Punk:

[mattt]

Then about a week ago on old GSR ramaranma, Mr :Police: in the Red mufti
turns around follows me up the bloody road to Bombay, pulls me over and yep.

"Na you havn't done anything wrong yet !, just wanted to tell ya ya lights out."


FOR FUCKS SAFE :mad: :mad: :mad:

F/F :(

That would be my mate Mr :Police: in the red mufti........ the fucker......
Give him some credit thou, I've never seen a piece of shit holden do 2 hundy down the Bombays before :yeah: