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I’m invisible anyway .
My cell-mate is friends with Napoleon!
On a serious note , frost + bright sunshine + cold + sitting water from previous rain means my bike is staying in the garage. ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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Two occasions sprint to mind for me.
A few winters back driving down City Rd at 7am, must have been a Saturday, a chap on a CBR125 was behind me with his headlight on full beam blinding me. So first set of lights, I asked him to turn it down as it was blinding me and he said no as it was the only way people could see him. So the lights changed, I let him pull away and sat behind him with my headlight on High beam, next set of lights he started screaming and swearing at me, he didn't like being blinded.
2nd occasion, after visiting a friend in Kings College I was being blinded by a scooter rider behind me so traffic lights I asked him to switch off the high beam and he laughed at me so again lights change, I sit behind on high beam and he starts screaming and swearing.
As to the spotlights I may have some blame. Odd bikes have had them for years and Honda were selling them as genuine accessories since at least 2006 if you had a grand to spare but about 8 or 9 years ago I built a courier special on a new CB500X which had the 6 LED SMD spotlights mounted on it, within a year it seemed like virtually every bike with crash bars in London had them fitted.
I suppose it was all just coincidence, LED spotlights dropped a lot in price, every man and there dog started offering bike kits and now every one thinks it's ok to mount them up high and blind people instead of having them low with a good spread along the road. |
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GettinBetter Crazy Courier
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Most people don't have a clue where their lights are shining, or realise how to adjust them inside the vehicle let alone under the bonnet. They don't realise when they shove a load into the boot it lowers the back, and hence now they'll blind other drivers.
It's a complete shit show.
Let's face it the powers that be can't even get the traffic lights right, they now seem to have a full beam HID in them for some reason, god forbid you want to see if there are any pedestrians in the vacinity of the crossing.
So what chance is there that joe bloggs will have a clue. God we even get blinded by emergency vehicles now festooned with dazzling lights that all but force you to stop because you cant see fuck all.
The worst is cunts that think temporarily blinding you, is a good way of saying 'thank you' when you give way to them, not so bad in the day, but then there are these special needs that buy cars with their headlights on permanently, so main beam is hardly distinguishable on a bright day.
Absolutely nobody understands that the human eye has it's limitations, and can only process a limited amount of light before reaching saturation, at which point there is no contrast, hence no definition. |
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Modern cars with ultra bright HID or LED headlights have self levelling headlamps which automatically compensate
for things like driving uphill or lots of passengers. I'm pretty sure it's an MOT necessary feature on such vehicles,
like headlamp washers on cars with xenons to prevent beam scatter when the lights are dirty. For instance there's
no dial for self adjusting the headlights in my car but there is in my van. When I start my car up it goes through a
test cycle on the headlights where the beam moves up then down. In the car I just leave mine on 'auto' and full beam
all the time and let the car decide when to dip them which is a legit feature my car has. Bearing in mind my cars
headlights are so powerful that they visibly light up and reflect on roadsigns and numberplates even in full sunshine
yet I don't get flashed at by oncoming vehicles at night seems to indicate the system works well, the only time they
are a bit unpredictable is in heavy fog so I do switch to manual lights in those conditions. I have to say the headlights
are my favourite thing on my car, they change their beam pattern depending on things like the speed of travel and
presence of streetlights. On a fast road the beam is long and narrow, on an urban road it's shorter and widens the
spread and on unlit roads it uses full beam or partial full beam as and when it deems necessary. It can see oncoming
headlamps or tail lights ahead of me and changes the beam pattern to avoid discomfort to other road users. Best lights
I've ever had on a car, much better than xenons which I've had on a couple of my previous rides.
On my old van the dipped beams are cack but the full beam is not too bad at all when needed, but it's entirely manually controlled. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Fat Angry Scotsman World Chat Champion
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grr666 wrote: | Modern cars with ultra bright HID or LED headlights have self levelling headlamps which automatically compensate
for things like driving uphill or lots of passengers. I'm pretty sure it's an MOT necessary feature on such vehicles,
like headlamp washers on cars with xenons to prevent beam scatter when the lights are dirty. For instance there's
no dial for self adjusting the headlights in my car but there is in my van. When I start my car up it goes through a
test cycle on the headlights where the beam moves up then down. In the car I just leave mine on 'auto' and full beam
all the time and let the car decide when to dip them which is a legit feature my car has. Bearing in mind my cars
headlights are so powerful that they visibly light up and reflect on roadsigns and numberplates even in full sunshine
yet I don't get flashed at by oncoming vehicles at night seems to indicate the system works well, the only time they
are a bit unpredictable is in heavy fog so I do switch to manual lights in those conditions. I have to say the headlights
are my favourite thing on my car, they change their beam pattern depending on things like the speed of travel and
presence of streetlights. On a fast road the beam is long and narrow, on an urban road it's shorter and widens the
spread and on unlit roads it uses full beam or partial full beam as and when it deems necessary. It can see oncoming
headlamps or tail lights ahead of me and changes the beam pattern to avoid discomfort to other road users. Best lights
I've ever had on a car, much better than xenons which I've had on a couple of my previous rides.
On my old van the dipped beams are cack but the full beam is not too bad at all when needed, but it's entirely manually controlled. |
When I was in Canada I rented a 2021 Toyota Corolla and it had auto-dipping headlights which were fantastic. Genuinely an amazing feature I didn't even know existed. Also adaptive cruise-control is amazing, especially when it reads road signs for speed changes.
Also, I have to be fair to my little Chinese 125, the LED lights on it are actually very good, they light up the road way better than my Kwak or even my car. ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U. |
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Laughably bad headlights? Try an old Fazer 600. It's so dire it;s untrue.
Today, riding home from Quainton in wifies Tourneo and asked her why her headlights were aimed at the ground and she should alter the level. She hadn't got a clue where the control was to raise or lower the inclination. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Talking about laughable, there's this....
I don't see it being any better seeing as it was introduced circa 2016.
https://mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/the-mot-headlamp-aim-test-is-changing/
Can somebody tell me where these perfectly straight and flat roads are? I think you must be able to count them in the UK, on one hand. WTF!! Great design. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 99 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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