High beam. WTF?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Take responsibility...

Do us all a favour... sell your bike and stay off the road... we will all be safer...

[nodrog:Me]

Way too fucking loud!

Ill supply the ear plugs.

[Jantar]

I wonder if the people who ride on high beam all the time on the assumption that overall it makes them safer (and regardless of the effect on other road users) also wear hi-viz vests?

So when I don't see your indicators because I'm blinded by your high beam, whose fault is it when I plow into you?

[Jantar]

Can you please be more specific about the motorcycle instructor, Steve?

I would like to get his clarification of the quote, just to ensure that he is not be taken out of context.

He must be a doozy of instructor if he advocates illegal actions that are inconsiderate to others. Must ensure that no one I want to survive get his method of training.

Caning a Hyosung @ 120 KPH... you need to get out more.

He is NOT an instructor. Once, just once, in the whole time he has been on here he made a single wise comment. he was commended for it by a qualified instructor, and now puts it in his signiture.

[DR650gary]

He is NOT an instructor. Once, just once, in the whole time he has been on here he made a single wise comment. he was commended for it by a qualified instructor, and now puts it in his signiture.

Was the comment

"I am a dickhead and need to sell my Hyosung"

Seems to be about the only commendable thing he would say.

Is it so hard to admit that a high beam is for solo travel at night when you do not inconvenience others?

A well adjusted light gives more than enough visibility for an aware driver and an unaware driver will see neither, high or low.

Or should we all, cagers included, ignore each other and introduce the "carnage law"? Last man standing sort of thing!

[Maha]

An ex boss of mine in Auckland drives his vehicle with his lights on full...reckons other road use will let him know if they (the lights) bother them...

[pzkpfw]

So when I don't see your indicators because I'm blinded by your high beam, whose fault is it when I plow into you?

Yeah, that's why I wrote "assumption". The high-beam advocates justify it on the basis of their own personal safety - but I think that's rather unproven. There were comments earlier in the thread from someone (a rider) who definitely had occasions when high-beam made it harder to properly see where a bike was.

[Maha]

He is NOT an instructor. Once, just once, in the whole time he has been on here he made a single wise comment. he was commended for it by a qualified instructor, and now puts it in his signiture.

Qualified instuctor? we have only a few of those on here hope you're not confusing mentors with qualified instructors?

[notme]

Do headlight modulators make both camps in this argument happy?..... bugger, doesn't matter - they're illegal.

[Jantar]

Qualified instuctor? we have only a few of those on here hope you're not confusing mentors with qualified instructors?

No confusion. It was by one of our qualified instructors. I'm aware of only 3, but there may be more.

[Mom]

Might be an option if the night looks good. Cant beat a night ride when its crisp and clear....good chance to use the full beam also....

I never thougth of that option, I could do that after Mangawhai/Waipu/Oakleigh/Paparoa

I use my nasty-bright highbeam everywhere, EXCEPT following other bikers, on overcast days, at night in traffic, or in any other situation where it blinds people.

Nice to see you have changed tack on the following other bikes thing, I am specially pleased to read you dont attempt to deliberately blind other drivers as you used to.

[Mom]

I have read the thread now, it seems I was a bit hasty. Nothing has changed.

[steve_t]

I have read the thread now, it seems I was a bit hasty. Nothing has changed.

LOL. Didn't you call it in post #2?

[Mom]

LOL. Didn't you call it in post #2?

Maybe, but I am always positive and up for giving people a fifth or sixth cance

In this case I am about to give up. Mind you I have not read my recent rep

[Bonez]

Thank goodness not all Hyobag riders are big cocks. Stay up norf please.
It's an attention thing right? You might find a big Teddy will give you all the security you need.