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PostPosted: 23:16 - 31 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I notice far more bikers than car drivers that can't headlight properly.

There seems to be a growing cuntish trend for riding with full beams on.
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PostPosted: 23:31 - 31 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slacker24seven wrote:
I notice far more bikers than car drivers that can't headlight properly.

There seems to be a growing cuntish trend for riding with full beams on.


Now that 1 I can see the point in, after all if you're riding around with your headlights on at all times to be seen, then surely having your full beam on constantly then you are going to be more seenerer
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PostPosted: 23:38 - 31 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daytime lights on all the time for me apart from dipped beams when riding in heavy rain or in the evening / at night. I can't say that riding in the city there's ever been an appropriate situation or requirement for high beams.

Credit where credit is due not long after I first started riding I did have a cager tell me I forgot to turn my lights on and he pulled up beside me during an evening commute, so there are some helpful people out there, only happened once mind.

I do fear though that if I attempted to inform every cager I come across about their lights many wood look at me although they didn't speak English that and the fact it ad take me forever and a year to actually get to my destination.

Most annoying bit for me is almost getting fixated on cars coming in the opposite direction with main beams on, it becomes an instant reaction to look away or focus through the blinding light by now but doesn't bloody help Laughing
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PostPosted: 23:54 - 31 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

andym wrote:
Slacker24seven wrote:
I notice far more bikers than car drivers that can't headlight properly.

There seems to be a growing cuntish trend for riding with full beams on.


Now that 1 I can see the point in, after all if you're riding around with your headlights on at all times to be seen, then surely having your full beam on constantly then you are going to be more seenerer


You know when a car goes over a hill towards you and you kinda flinch your eyes because the beam is aimed right at your eyes? That's what full beam does, all the time. It's painful to have sitting in front of you...

The amount of people I pull out beside and have to motion to put their lights on is nuts. The worst part is that most modern cars activate the dash lights with the sidelights. So you get people thinking they're totally fine, going up the motorway at 70 90mph in the outside lane with two tiny piss-poor bulbs on that wouldn't light up their entire face.

I don't see why lights shouldn't constantly be on, I know most car drivers that I talk to leave them on all the time.
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PostPosted: 00:03 - 01 Aug 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you still live out in the sticks?

In the city, people are not much better about their headlights, but at least the street lights are consistently on. Except when they are off.
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PostPosted: 01:13 - 01 Aug 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Albigularis wrote:
The worst part is that most modern cars activate the dash lights with the sidelights. So you get people thinking they're totally fine, going up the motorway at 70 90mph in the outside lane with two tiny piss-poor bulbs on that wouldn't light up their entire face.

I don't see why lights shouldn't constantly be on, I know most car drivers that I talk to leave them on all the time.



On modern cars you can't turn the DRL's off, with the lights off and DRL's on my cars dash is brighter than with the lights turned on, because I'm not a mongtard I can tell when my dipped headlights are on... The pair of Nightbreaker +110% 55w bulbs are just slightly brighter than the 21w DRL bulbs.

Now sidelights and front fogs at night...
I did try it once and I could see fuck all, so that lasted all of 2 seconds.
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PostPosted: 07:00 - 01 Aug 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

stonesie wrote:
On modern cars you can't turn the DRL's off, with the lights off and DRL's on my cars dash is brighter than with the lights turned on, because I'm not a mongtard I can tell when my dipped headlights are on... The pair of Nightbreaker +110% 55w bulbs are just slightly brighter than the 21w DRL bulbs.


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PostPosted: 07:13 - 01 Aug 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Daytime Running Lights.
Newer vehicles all have them now, the only way to turn them off with engine running is hold the handbrake on slightly Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:59 - 01 Aug 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have poor night vision so have upgraded or updated every set of headlights I've had with varying degrees
of success. This time I bought a car with Bi xenon lights with 2 DRL 'eyebrows' built into them. What a revelation!
Best headlights I've ever had on any car I've ever owned. Being OE, they are self adjusting, and automatically
dip even if travelling up a slope or hill. Also the corresponding DRL dims when the indicators are on. The lighting
on the car can work fully automatically, but being a pre 2011 car I can also turn the DRLs off if I want to so
there are manual settings too. I'll be making sure my next car has xenons as well.
I won't be buying a car without them again.
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