On being safe, and visible - and a PLONKER!

[smoky]

One of the other down sides of having high beams on is that other road users find it harder to judge your distance from them them at junctions which will cause accidents or near misses at the least

Thats crazy - no way man, where do you get that from, how about a reference or something

[Greyham]

I agree, even park lights are visable from a distant, no need for high beams, unless your on a road with no one on it or inter city traveling

[smoky]

If you rode naked down the road everyone would notice you

[The Pastor]

its not DB + HID = PLONKER its DB+KEYBOARD = PLONKER!

[sinfull]

http://www.what-is-this.com/images/b...ight-16250.jpg

Thats crazy - no way man, where do you get that from, how about a reference or something

[Oscar]

its not DB + HID = PLONKER its DB+KEYBOARD = PLONKER!

To be fair, I think we've all made a cahnt of ourselves at some stage on the interweb. Even I may have a coupla times, but I don't think anyone noticed...

[sinfull]

To be fair, I think we've all made a cahnt of ourselves at some stage on the interweb. Even I may have a coupla times, but I don't think anyone noticed...

Have you not been paying attention ?

[The Pastor]

to be fair, i think we've all made a cahnt of ourselves at some stage on the interweb. Even i may have a coupla times, but i don't think anyone noticed...

i never have

[Tank]

To be fair, I think we've all made a cahnt of ourselves at some stage on the interweb. Even I may have a coupla times, but I don't think anyone noticed...

I did a Google search on "silly things Oscar says" and got 315,000 hits. Yep - we noticed.


to be fair some of them were other Oscars.

[Oscar]

Have you not been paying attention ?

To what?












Huh?

[sinfull]

To what?












Huh?

Lol missed them did ya !

[rocketman1]

It wood be a good thing if the "old pensioner" even saw me in the first place lights full ablaze or not

[dpex]

How many of you ride with your headlamp(s) on high-beam, to make yourselves more visible and safer?
Well, you're plonkers. And you're breaking the law.
I had this misfortune to be followed by someone riding a CBR400 (???) into Albany and Triton Drive this morning, with his/her headlight on high. If it was you, then you're lucky I didn't succumb to my instincts to stop, follow you to where you're going, and... I dunno... swear at you at the least. My eyes are still blurry and dazzled.
Unlike many bikes, my mirrors work well, so while you were following closely behind me, I was being dazzled, even though I was wearing a dark-tint visor.

Does it make you more visible? Well, maybe from a distance. Closer at hand, it just makes you fucking annoying. DON'T DO IT!!

Having been a devotee of hi-vis, and still wondering why the cagers seemed still out to get me, I decided to go bland.

BTW: I use my bike for sales calls throughout the week.

When I lost the hi-vis and went with jeans and a brown bomber jacket I must say I felt the 'incidents' of attack seemed to lessen.

I'm now beginning to wonder if stuff like high-vis, headlights, L-plates, etc, create target fixation within cagers.

Dunno. The change in incident numbers might be purely coincidental.

Sure, I have also experienced a cager lamenting, 'I jus' din't see ya', but I've had that when I have driven my own cage.

Dunno. To me it's an interesting issue. One which would benefit from some proper study to determine the value/cost of being 'very' obvious on a bike.

I have noticed, within myself, that when I hove up to an L-plate driver I tend to watch what they're doing way more closely than I do ordinary cagers.

I guess that's a type of fixation, since more of my concentration is on the potential beany rather than on the greater picture.

[rottiguy]

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My bandit is the same. Would that be a difficult job to do?


Not sure, want to cover my bases before I start snipping wires off

[rottiguy]

Yup, Jappa 4X4s seem to be the worse offenders, throw a bag of spuds into the back of a Surf and the haedlights aim for the power-wires.

They must have soft arsed rear shocks in them, or maybe they are just flogged out by the time joe importer brings them into the country, My old man had a car that you could adjust the headlights up and down like electric mirrors with a switch on the dash, was pretty sniffty