just recently had the ole load pipes save lives and "i ride with my headlight on full beam", my experience in more than a cpl of decades of riding and driving is that load pipes scare the shit out of most people because most of the time they don't know you are there until you are flying past and the modern headlights on bikes on full beam during the day can be very dazzling, but hey lets blind the fuckers in tin tops so they have an excuse to run into you, also causes target fixation and can make a bike seem a lot further away than it really is.
honestly in this day with so many cars now driving with headlights on then i would rather not have to have mine on. as a young fella my headlight was on all the time and then round the late nineties i seemed to have more cars pulling out in front of me and i figured they were misjudging my distance so i had an off switch fitted to the zzr and started riding with the light off and those instances stopped almost immediately then they went and changed the law.
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