Er excuse me, one of your lights is out

[rodgerd]

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?

Retarded? You should be GETTING DOWN ON YOUR KNEES and thanking whatever you believe in that they NOTICE YOU.

[riffer]

Retarded? You should be GETTING DOWN ON YOUR KNEES and thanking whatever you believe in that they NOTICE YOU.

One light, two lights, four lights - I'm ot too fussed. As Roger says, be glad they notice you.

I'd like one of those headlight modulators, but I'm not too sure about legalities - I guess you could put a switch on the handlebar to control it.

Actually come to think about it, is there anything in the road rules which prevents you having a modulating red/blue light?

[Coldkiwi]

hehe- I nearly made a tosser of myself by running over to a 916 filling up in Hamilton a few years ago to tell him that.. luckily I didn't get time and figured it out later

Sorry Quasi, but it serves you right for not getting it fixed! one headlight looks bloody stupid on any bike. I was paranoid about my GSXR having only one working light on low beam (the 02 apparently only uses one) but thankfully the suzuki engineers got their A into G for the 03 model. Cheers boys!!

[Ghost Lemur]

This is such a classic thread.

Gotta agree with the one light looking wrong, tis like a woman with only one breast, or (equality and all that) a guy with only one testicle.

[vifferman]

This is such a classic thread.

Gotta agree with the one light looking wrong, tis like a woman with only one breast, or (equality and all that) a guy with only one testicle.

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle?

[merv]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle?

Maybe he's looking in the mirror!

[BM-GS]

For this one you can blame the Europeans: they have a law which says something to the effect that: all bikes sold after such-&-such date shall not display 2 headlights (unless on high beam) so that people who drive cars don't get confused.

Either they're trying to save us from ourselves, or they think the average car driver is even more stupid than most bikers do. Maybe the politicians got confused, and so passed the law to stop them getting into too befuddled a state?

If you can't tell the difference between a car far away and bike close up, you probably should take your test again...

It wouldn't be too bad if bike headlights were good enough that you didn't need two! Also, lots of Europe gets dark at going-home-from-work time, so a lot of miles are covered in the dark. Not like here, where it's civilised.

GS feller

[Sniper]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle?

Haha, classic, but yea, ummm, bit worried there.

[vifferman]

For this one you can blame the Europeans: they have a law which says something to the effect that: all bikes sold after such-&-such date shall not display 2 headlights (unless on high beam) so that people who drive cars don't get confused.

As stupid as it might sound, I can understand the logic, and I bet at first glance in poor visibility conditions (dark and rainy or foggy), many people would have difficulty picking a two-headlight bike in the near distance as such and not as a car/truck further away.

Wonder what the date is? The latest model VFR has four headlights, and as far as I know, it has two illuminated at a time. It may be, though, that they don't really look like two (previous models had two, but these look more like one at night, due to a combined lens).

[Quasievil]

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.

I hear what youre saying but the dipped single light on my Bike is absolutely outstanding at night, with both on full beam its fucken unreal, love the lights

[Sniper]

I hear what youre saying but the dipped single light on my Bike is absolutely outstanding at night, with both on full beam its fucken unreal, love the lights

As in ow, my eyes, you have burnt my retina out owwwwww!!!!!

[Quasievil]

Im not sure how you can relate a headlight to a pair of boobs or your balls but whatever turns you on, just dont get to close to my bike okay no hanky panky with the kwaky

I actually think that one headlight looks cool, as did the 916 when it started the trend, I think it looks racy and styley, as opposed to a all lights on approach.
One light or two on my bike makes no difference on visibility during the day as the single light is very powerful

interesting reading your thoughts though

[Ghost Lemur]

Uh.... when have you been looking at guys with only one testicle?

I notice you are not alone in being more interested in the testicles side of the analogy rather than the breasts... interesting.

[inlinefour]

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"

I get people coming up to me when I get out of my Toyota Surf, and of course its still running. "Are you not going to turn it off" or "hey ya truck is still running". I generally reply with either: dont wory its well behaved and will turn itself off or it will turn itself off once it is ready.
I find it funny, but dont believe that its anything to get upset about, I guess unless some dumb arse is jumping out in frount of it waiving their arms. But hey people for whatever reason will do dumb arse things when its a bike. The same people jump outta the way when I come rambling through in the Surf...

[crashe]

Hmmmm I must admit that I didnt know that about the lights on certain sportbikes....until recently.... I also thought that the light bulb had blown....

So we all learn something new everyday....

The other day I was following a black surf... and as we had both stopped.. I thought hmmm something is wrong here.... until I realised that I couldnt see my headlight reflecting back at me... from the back of the surf.....
Damn it was the day before the WOF was due..... I had lost the low beam... and had high beam working..... until I was heading down to the bike shop to get the light sorted out and in the 5 minutes to ride to the shop the full beam went as well.... $12 later for new lightbulb...
That was the only way I knew the bulb had blown especially riding during the daytime.....