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.... and you wish they were high=powered lasers, or RPGs instead of mere headlights.Originally Posted by Finn
Indeed!
LOL... imagination kicks in here, and I can visualise you driving down the motorway, firing RPG salvoes, and as you drive past the fiery wreckage, announcing on your 10,000W PA system, "Keep left, cunts!"
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Double shot!!
LOL it wasn't me! How can you tell? I would have been in front of you, not behind you.
Nah I do take your point about being an asshole on the road. I have always said I will dip them on request, but strangely no one quotes me saying that - only the shit they can take more offence at, and always the same one or two people doing it.
All I am trying to do is be visible from a great distance. Thats it. And it works. In a group I'll dip them if people are sensitive to it. In a family ride we ALL ride fullbeam day and night, and that is tough shit.
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It is impossible for someone to "request" you to dip your lights if you are riding behind them Steve. It is blinding and distracting to have your over bright high beam refelcting back in my eyes from the mirrors. I have asked you not to do it, here you say you will continue to do it anyway.
Inconsiderate is what that is mate, and fucking stupid too.
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Of course he is only talking shit. It is his way to continue justifying in his own mind being a prat.
Just like how he can somehow justify to himself his own children riding on the roads without any insurance.
A bit like those people that drive around in big 4X4s and don't bother to use their indicators because it's okay cos they know where their pretentious selves are going. Prats.
Hmm.
I almost never use my full beams, only when where I am is really deserted.
I see some people using them in the suburbs when there are street lights sometimes...
I'm beached as!
IMO, a single headlight on high beam is considerably less safe than the alternatives. My experience waiting at an intersection and viewing an oncoming bike with single headlight on full is that the headlight completely obscures the rest of the bike, eliminating change of size of the approaching object as a visual cue of its speed.
parting of the sensory
Not only that, but how are other motorists supposed to 'see' you, when they're dazzled/blinded/looking away to avoid the glare!
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
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Actually, its more likely that your suspension needs adjusting more than your lights.
The stock tuono shock spring is 8.5Nm, I actually need a 13Nm to get the sag right with me on it. the WOF guy can''t check my headlight alignment unless he weighs 130Kg.
If bikes were sprung stock front AND rear correctly, then it would all even out, however, most bikes I've ridden usually have spring rates for different weight riders in both ends.
eg, VTR1000 is soft front and hard rear relatively.
Tuono is hard front and soft rear relatively.
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I had one plonker (love that word!) riding towards me in daylight a few days ago. He had a really large headlight and it was on full beam. I so wanted to turn my car lights on full and see how he liked it but he was in the middle of a stream of cars so I didn't.
Yes, it did make him visible, but it irritated me so much I wanted to run the bastard off the road! There is NO need to have your lights on full except under the usual circumstances - dark road, night time, no other traffic to blind, etc.
Mind you, he was a fat prick, so maybe his light was just a bit high. Yeah, right.
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that rules me out then! poor bastards had them hard wired, (bad enough having to ride a Bavarian Mutant Wombat but to draw more attention to yourself is bad when you just hope everyone mistakes your bike for a Honda, a Kwaka, a Yamy, shit even a Hardly!)
Still illegal to have high beam on following or aproaching other traffic, also to use fog lights in clear conditions day or night.
If you want to be seen join the Village people (nah) ride a Police BMW (nah) wear dayglo, but better still just treat everyone out there as a deaf dumb drunk blind idiot
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One is intrigued by the spectrum of views enunciated by motorcyclists about when and how their bikes should be illuminated. One feels like shutting the high-beamers in a room with the no-lights-necessary-during-daylighters, throwing in a selection of pointed and edged weapons, and selling tickets to view the ensuing spectacle.
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I think my headlight needs adjusting... I was on a back road the other night I flicked it on full beam, and suddenly the road disappeared. However, I did find out there were alot of powerlines. Hmmm. Possibly that would explain why people always adjust thier rear view mirrors when I pull in behind them...
Can't see why people would willingly put on full beam during the day though. Doesn't make you any more visible. If people are going to see you, they will see you wether you have full beam on or not... And at night, the difference between full beam and dipped in terms of someone else seeing it? I can't see there being much difference. Light is light after all.
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The only time a HoBag could get in front of me is if its coming from the other direction
Strangely nobody quotes that huh? I thought I did just above - Next time I will type slower for you.
And as for quoting shit that people take offence at - Its a quote FFS - Try not typing offensive shit - then it cannot be quoted!
The point remains that you say you wont dip them at all when following another car / bike unless its a cop. How can some request that you dip them in that position????
Again - How would you feel if someone was travelling behind your kids with their HID's on full-beam - you would throw a Famous in NZ (and Internationally) DB wobbly.
Usual story DB - you seem to be an extremely selfish biker and think very much of yourself and nobody else
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Like that is going to ever happen in NZ... Unless the ecilop's re-focus their target quota.
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Na mate, he's just a blow hard who thinks he comes across all hard. Funny thing is, most guys to some degree can back up an attitude. DB though, really is a pussy, dressed in sheeps clothing.
Usual story DB - you seem to be an extremely selfish biker and think very much of yourself and nobody else
But it would be a shame for him to change. The world needs diversity.
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