Bobbers - check your tail lights

[OddDuck]

Posting this after just having followed a chap until he pulled over... he was on a bobbed Harley, side mounted license plate, underseat light set. Stylish as hell but inclined to disappear behind the rear fender... honestly, following in my car, from straight behind him I had no view of the rear light at all. I only noticed him at first as a silhouette against something lit up ahead.

If you're on a bobber it might be worth having a mate follow you in a car, with a passenger, and get that passenger to take a few pics while you all roll after dark. Be sure. Yeah, there might be some pisstaking.

Nice guy BTW, he appreciated the heads-up.

[The End]

Good on ya, there's not much more dangerous than a bike at night without a (visible) tail light.

[Gremlin]

Followed a scooter down the Southern this evening until he got off at Ellerslie and I finally got him at a traffic light. Told him he has a brake light but no tail light.

He says: "I know"

So keep riding at night?

[gsxr]

Followed a scooter down the Southern this evening until he got off at Ellerslie and I finally got him at a traffic light. Told him he has a brake light but no tail light.

He says: "I know"

So keep riding at night?

Was he wearing jandels and his cap on back to front.
Darwin sometimes has a way of eliminating the lower end of the gene pool

[Gremlin]

Was he wearing jandels and his cap on back to front.
Darwin sometimes has a way of eliminating the lower end of the gene pool

Seemed to be an older bloke (full face helmet!), with a dog in the box on the back...

[OddDuck]

Followed a scooter down the Southern this evening until he got off at Ellerslie and I finally got him at a traffic light. Told him he has a brake light but no tail light.

He says: "I know"

So keep riding at night?

Laughing in disbelief... my God it really does take all types doesn't it?

[EJK]

Followed a scooter down the Southern this evening until he got off at Ellerslie and I finally got him at a traffic light. Told him he has a brake light but no tail light.

He says: "I know"

So keep riding at night?

You have a big van, don't ya? Just run him over.

One less idiot on the road.

[jellywrestler]

If you're on a bobber it might be worth having a mate follow you in a car

Bobber riders don't have mates though.

[Gremlin]

You have a big van, don't ya? Just run him over.

One less idiot on the road.

One does not simply drive a big van in Auckland traffic unless you have to... plus it doesn't fit in client's parking garages in the CBD anyway...

And it probably wouldn't have caught him either, he was going pretty quick...

[EJK]

One does not simply drive a big van in Auckland traffic unless you have to... plus it doesn't fit in client's parking garages in the CBD anyway...

And it probably wouldn't have caught him either, he was going pretty quick...

Better step up your game if you can't keep up with a scooter on the motorway!

[AllanB]

Followed a scooter down the Southern this evening until he got off at Ellerslie and I finally got him at a traffic light. Told him he has a brake light but no tail light.

He says: "I know"

So keep riding at night?

Ha - lowered the drivers window in my car over the weekend to tell an adjacent driver the same - one light out. Reply was 'so?' Mine was 'enjoy your fine'

No wonder people die in their homes and no one notices for months ..........