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 .

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 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

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.
What did you tell the kind mr 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!
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

[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!
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

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.

and people who I told "it only turns them both on with high beam" kept telling me I was on high beam

Class m8!!!

[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.

[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

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.