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**_Shrek_** · 8th November 2009, 06:11

my 1st bm had lights on full time the 2nd 2 can be turned off, i always ride with them on but found them off after i got my bike back from the bike shop after having been worked on, so best make sure it's on befor you leave

**ukusa** · 8th November 2009, 07:44

Originally Posted by _Shrek_

my 1st bm had lights on full time the 2nd 2 can be turned off, i always ride with them on but found them off after i got my bike back from the bike shop after having been worked on, so best make sure it's on befor you leave

mines on full time as well, can't turn it off. But if it blows, unless you have a mirror mounted reflecting the headlight back to you, looks like it's tuff shit.

**_Shrek_** · 8th November 2009, 12:36

Originally Posted by ukusa

mines on full time as well, can't turn it off. But if it blows, unless you have a mirror mounted reflecting the headlight back to you, looks like it's tuff shit.

run it on high beam till you get another thats all most of us do

**scumdog** · 8th November 2009, 13:06

Originally Posted by Swoop

All together now...

"There is no quota".

Quite right.

As you know cops can write out as many tickets as they want.

**scumdog** · 8th November 2009, 13:08

Originally Posted by ukusa

mines on full time as well, can't turn it off. But if it blows, unless you have a mirror mounted reflecting the headlight back to you, looks like it's tuff shit.

No reason why you can't ask for compliance if the headlight is genuinely blown - car drivers get it all the time.

The worst penalty then is the time spent taking the bike/car to your nearest cop shop to show it's fixed.

**Dodgy** · 8th November 2009, 13:44

I ran around today on high beam, just to be double safe and to be double sure that the cars saw me.. and they sure did that! Does the law state lo or hi beam during daylight?

**mowgli** · 8th November 2009, 13:55

Originally Posted by Dodgy

I ran around today on high beam, just to be double safe and to be double sure that the cars saw me.. and they sure did that! Does the law state lo or hi beam during daylight?

The answer is here. At night you should always dip your headlights for oncoming traffic. I would argue that during the day high beams should be fine, encouraged even.

Originally Posted by Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004 (SR 2004/427) (as at 01 November 2009)

8.3 Use of motor vehicle lighting equipment on road

(1) A person must not use vehicle lighting equipment in such a way that it dazzles, confuses, or distracts so as to endanger the safety of other road users.
(2) If a vehicle's headlamps are in use, a driver must dip those headlamps—

(a) whenever they would be likely to interfere adversely with the vision of another driver in motion on a road; or
(b) when approaching an intersection or other place where the traffic is or appears to be under the control of an enforcement officer; or
(c) when the vehicle is parked.

(3) A driver, during the hours of darkness, must use the vehicle's headlamp or headlamps.
(4) A driver during the hours of darkness must use the vehicle's position lamp or lamps.
(5) This subclause applies to the driver of a moped or motorcycle manufactured on or after 1 January 1980. The driver other than during the hours of darkness must use the moped's or motorcycle's headlamps or, if fitted, the moped's or motorcycle's daytime running lamps.

**MDR2** · 8th November 2009, 15:19

Originally Posted by rotaholicfc3s

I actually had no idea about the law change as I don't really watch much news as I find it depressing (war, famine, aids, death, depression, etc) so perhaps I'm to blame for not keeping up with the changes. A friend of mine who rides received a letter informing him of the law change but for some reason I did not.

Don't watch the news eh?

Alot has happened since you last watched the news... Aides has been cured, war is a thing of the past, depression only effects washed up rugby players...

Actualy... it's probably more socialy acceptable to be a depressed ex rugby player with aides then it is to own a bike these days (maybe you haven't heard, ACC is turning people against us... not that we haven't been trying ourselves!) YEEAAAPP the times are changing my friend.

Enjoy your stay.

Oh, welcome to the madhouse

**jellywrestler** · 8th November 2009, 18:32

Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket

Bloody women eh!

women should be obscene and not heard...

**dangerous** · 8th November 2009, 19:43

Originally Posted by Dodgy

I ran around today on high beam, just to be double safe and to be double sure that the cars saw me.. and they sure did that! Does the law state lo or hi beam during daylight?

CAUTION... on hi beam a car or other moterest may NOT be able to judge your speed and or distance, IMHO I dont reconmend hi beam.