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Headlights on??
Sider:
--- Quote from: Boddle on February 26, 2008, 09:44:20 ---
--- Quote from: Tommo on February 25, 2008, 18:10:13 ---WHAAAT!!! and they rant on about cars needing to be super environmentally friendly.
I suspect its just sidelights though like in america.
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As far as I'm aware it is Illegal to drive with side only in the UK they are for parking purposes only.
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As far as I know, it is legal as long as it is daylight or you are in an urban area, with regular street illumination and a 30 or lower speed limit.
Bob696:
--- Quote from: disco 70 on February 25, 2008, 20:17:54 ---I gotta say I have a 125cc bike and I ride it with the side lights on all the time. So many people don`t see me
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My 90 is bright yellow and 7 ft tall(ish) and still people dont see me!!!! I dread to think how many people dont see me on a bike. I have an american spec ZL600 and it used to have orange running lights (low watt bulb in the indicators that never flashed). It worked a treat and you could tell people had seen you. I was made to disconect them for an MOT and a PC threatened me with prosecution if he saw them on again. :doh:
skip:
--- Quote from: SteveGoodz on February 26, 2008, 00:42:09 ---
--- Quote from: skip on February 25, 2008, 23:29:48 ---
--- Quote ---No it won't. It'll make bikes another lamp in a stream of lamps ~ their visibility will be exactly the same as it is now.
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Do you ride?
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Yes .. for the past 38 years .. but whether I ride (or not) is irrelevant to my comment above :)
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It is relevant as I could understand your comment as a non rider, but as you are a rider i'm simply bemused.
A motorcycle with it's lights on during the daytime when cars DO NOT have their lights on is visible for more than a mile away (road conditions permitting) but at least a good deal more than if all vehicles had lights on. If all vehicles had their lights on a motorcycle will be harder to see as it is a smaller object, the light will really make it blend in.
If they do bring in this lights on thing. I will be riding my bike with it turned off, at least that way I will be different to everything else around me and should be more likley to attract attention of other motorists
hobbit:
Unless the law in Germany since the 80's, in bad weather dipped headlights are mandatory, not just fog, this includes dusk and dawn, rain, sleet, snow, fog, mist, any weather where the conditions mean the visilbility is reduced
Even now if its bad I'll put dipped headlights on, having lights on all day does have a mixed response from people, but how many folks have claimed that they did not see the other vehicle coming
A law for inclement weather compulsary dipped headlights should be brought in, how often have you driven up the motorway, bad spray in daylight form rain, and someone has sidelights on behind you and you cant see them, against a headlighted vehicle
SteveGoodz:
--- Quote from: skip on February 26, 2008, 18:48:01 ---
It is relevant as I could understand your comment as a non rider, but as you are a rider i'm simply bemused.
A motorcycle with it's lights on during the daytime when cars DO NOT have their lights on is visible for more than a mile away (road conditions permitting) but at least a good deal more than if all vehicles had lights on. If all vehicles had their lights on a motorcycle will be harder to see as it is a smaller object, the light will really make it blend in.
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Sorry to disagree, Skip, but your motorcycle headlight does not become suddenly dimmer just because all the other traffic around it has theirs on. At the moment you're expecting the car driver to notice a single headlamp during the second (or two) that he looks in your direction. He might see you .. but there again he might not - SMIDSY. If all the cars (or more of them anyway) also have their lights on same car driver is more likely to see that something is coming and give a second look before deciding to pull out. It could make life safer for bikers.
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