Daytime running lights

Cab said...

Pirbright is the only military establishment I visit nowadays. They
train nubile young gurlies there.

 

You use them as a means of pissing off other road users. Riding on
full beam behind other bikes that you're on a ride out with is nothing
short of cuntish behaviour. In fact riding behind anyone on full beam
is cuntish behaviour.

Please accept my apologies if you've recently stopped being a ****.

 

Perhaps they're blinded by someone riding on full beams.

 

So what are you supposed to do in that situation? I guess you just approach
very, very slowly...

 

It's largely nonsensical, very irritating and entirely inconsiderate.

I think painting over the light would be sufficient. Or just a really
good coating of mud.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andy Bonwick

<AOL>

He won't change though. The daft bastard is convinced it makes him
safer.

One day someone will target fixate on the blinding light and the problem
will resolve itself.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

He may feel it makes him safer and it surely means that car drivers
can't fail to notice (providing that they actually fucking look in the
first place) the blinding ball of dazzling light. However, let me
tell you that negotiating Bedford traffic while not being able to use
mirrors and with green blind spots obscuring forward vision is NO FUN
AT ALL.

It doesn't work - well, not for the stated aim. A blinding ball of
light is very noticeable, granted: but assessing the approach speed of
said ball of light impossible. Not only that, but the effect on the
retina means that anything else is obscured for some time by the green
after-images. To take that a bit further, the rider on main beam may
get through, but anyone following on dip or without lights stands a
good chance of being crunched by a pre-dazzled driver.

Somebody taped over the high beam part of the lens. Somebody else
mentioned the tape. The tape was promptly removed, and a 'FOT
undertaken on full beam. Cutting the wires was mooted later, as a
number of riders had lost the use of their mirrors due to the dazzling
ball of light behind them, followed by losing the use of chunks of
forward vision due to after-images. That is quite disconcerting when
riding at 'FOT speeds.

 

If somebody, despite requests to the contrary, persists in being a twat
in such a way as to reduce the safety of others, the answer's simple
enough.

Just park up and refuse to ride with the ****.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a
I demand nothing of you except that you amuse me.

Folding@Home Team UKRM
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Who remembers Lucas Day Riding Lights? In the 1970s - sort of
high-intensity low wattage lights you fixed to the front of your bike,
to make you more visible. Heavily advertised, on sale everywhere, and
nobody bought 'em. Too late, Lucas realised that bikes actually had
headlight switches.

 

Yep. Rectangular, very wide beam efforts. Supposed to be visible at angle
where the headlight wasn't.

 

What about Volvo owners who've not worked out how to disable the
'headlights always on' function?

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<waits for comment to appear: "Volvo drivers deserve to be shot">

 

So shoot me.

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<waits for the results of the vote to come>

 

Paul Varnsverry wrote

He is Spartacus, shoot him.

 

As is my workplace.

 

Ben Blaney said...

Do you go there to collect and drop off a cute 21 year old squaddie-girl
though?

 

I don't deal with anyone lower than a Major.

 

Ben Blaney said...

That's the US equivalent of a UK corporal.

 

You're posting to the wrong group Loz, might get a few bites in
rec.motorcycles.