High beam question

[nallac]

For me it depends where i am, on my daily commute i may dip lights for on coming cars depending on where the corners are, I do dip them for a couple of Blue warning signs aswell,man can they blind you.
In saying that I do need brighter lights, the joy of shift work during winter....

[breakaway]

I usually pop wheelies at oncoming cars so my headlight isn't that much of an issue for other cars.

[MotoKuzzi]

Nowadays you risk getting the bash for flashing oncoming vehicles to dip their lights.

[slydesigns]

Getting the bash? How? That would mean they managed to slow up, turn around and catch your ass... its called a crotch rocket for a reason... as a pyscho female rider I know loves to say, "drop a gear and disappear!"

[CookMySock]

i thought i would not dip my headlights and see if anyone flashed me. They had plenty of time to do this but no one seemed to care.

Ride around all day with it on full (as a scientific experiment of course!) and see if you get flashed. But you won't, because as you say, you have a pussy headlight.

Even my HID on full (isn't that bright actually) doesn't get flashed. Different story if it was in a H4 housing.

Nowadays you risk getting the bash for flashing oncoming vehicles to dip their lights.

I wouldn't have thought so. You will irritate them though, and they will probably respond. You don't need this on the road. See my earlier post to work around this problem.

Steve

[JohnC]

I always dip my head light for on coming traffic,usualy well before they do.
I live at the end of a 60km peninsula that is all unlit country road,and I noticed a long time ago that the on comings are slow to dip their lights out here more than on any other type of roads.
It's not only for bikes either,their the same no matter what your on or in.
Just another little "thing" to be aware of,and it doesn't "piss me off" as some choose for their reaction,,,it's just another little thing,nothing more.

[newbould]

thats the main reason i avoid riding at night... the number of ignorant drivers who dont seem to give a rats. as a result, i dont often bother to dip mine unless they do first.

I love riding at night - no-one knows what size bike I'm on when I come up behind so they slow down and let me go for it! 30 seconds later I hit 100 kph and zooooooooooooom past




And to answer the question - most do dip for me and I always try to remember to dip

[sunhuntin]

id like to enjoy night riding, but i just cant. i find that im blinded even by dipped lights. horrid. have done wangas to welly one night, and it was the worst trip ever.

[HRT]

Maybe people don't flick to dip because there are so many bikers riding around on high beam all the time... Even in the day its a cunt

[Gibbo13p]

I've driven commercial vehicles at night for 20 years and 20,000 hours.

Steve

Wouldn't that be 40,000 hours or so? 2080 hours in working year I thought....
Unless your only driving 6 months of the year....

Gibbo

I wait till they see me on full beam then dip, and if they don't I wack the beam back up to warp factor 9...

[CookMySock]

Wouldn't that be 40,000 hours or so? 2080 hours in working year I thought.... Unless your only driving 6 months of the year....

I only work when I feel like it. Though, seriously I hadn't done the maths.

I wait till they see me on full beam then dip, and if they don't I wack the beam back up to warp factor 9...

I do the same, but I'll flash them first before I toast them.

Steve

[Gibbo13p]

Understand bout the maths I hate it too...

Have flashed before with the pass switch if there far enough away to get the message... hell when I was temping last milk season I'd get f@#$s blinding me in the truck all the time, the scania lights are pretty hash though. The probelm is we are getting older and lights are getting better...like tankers get bigger and tracks seem to get smaller lol

Gibbo