Cars turning on high beam when you overtake

[Fidge]

Just been for a ride in the dark and It really bugged me that most of the cars would leave or turn their high-beam on once I overtook.

This often happens and as I said it really bugs me.

Does it happen to you or does everyone just hate the sound of me overtaking and maybe the smell of burning two stroke?

[MCN]

[Pete.]

Have you got your 2-stroke mix right? Might be fog lights
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Let them illuminate your path.
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[Fidge]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Can't you do that mind over matter trick similar to when a car approaches with main beam on?

I get what you mean but apart from direct action etc etc.
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Do you stop?
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[Val]

Never happened to me.

There is possibility if you cut too close in front of them after overtaking somebody to get annoyed and flash you. But full high beam on?

Do you get flashing?
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[Going]

Maybe they think you had your high beam on?
Or they just don't like that you overtook them.

I've had people put their high beams on after they fail to block me overtaking.
If it really bothers you just pull your mirrors in a bit, don't overtake or let them overtake you.

[Chuffin Nora]

Oh, FFS, don't get me started.

Those who are readers of the Daily Mail -- and therefore cannot sufficiently read the road -- tend to think that motorcycles are merely bicycles with engines, and bicycles don't have mirrors, do they?

[andym]

I always keep my mirrors aiming lower so I have to lean down a bit to see behind me correctly (if that makes sense), so I imaging that anyone having their full beam behind me wouldn't really make much difference as I passed them

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Probably just butt hurt because you overtook them. However if you've gone past them, why are they close enough to you for it to be a problem?
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[Michelle L]

It does not bother me , more light on the road not that I ride much at night anyway
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[doggone]

Surely if you need to overtake you will rapidly leave them behind anyway.
So do that, or stay behind and use their superior headlights - or put yours on full beam and dazzle them if you're annoyed they are in front.

[thx1138]

I just move my elbows. It annoys me more on motorways though.

[Papa Lazarou]

Card drivers flashing as a way of saying thanks when you let them through bugs me more.

The OP is probably just going round scaring them.

[MCN]

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[bamt]

The only overtaking-high-beam that bugs me is when you're overtaking someone on a long straight road and an oncoming car half a mile away starts to flash you frantically (because obviously you haven't seen their dipped beam, and having a flashing light in your eyes is a great assistance to road safety).

Then you complete the overtake and there's still 1/3 of a mile before you actually pass the oncoming car.

[Nexus Icon]

Meh, for every car driver that does this to me when I overtake them on the bike I could show you 20 motorcyclists who come up behind me in the car with their main beam directed straight into my rear view mirror.

C'est la vie.

Remember, your 1 candlepower headlamp is probably not bright enough to illuminate the road ahead of you both, from their perspective, and they'd quite like to see where they're going.

Of course, you do still get the mentals who flash like a motherfucker after you've executed a perfectly safe and legal overtake but that happens regardless of whether I'm on the bike or in the car. Some people just don't like it.
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[bikertomm]

Happens to me all the time in the car.

Usually just some old twat letting out some of his road rage instead of finding his accelerator pedal.

Without fail every single time someone does this to me I simply flash my rear fog light back, whilst fucking off into the distance.


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[Timfy]

Doesn't matter if I'm using bike or car, people just seem to go mad at the thought of a complete stranger "jumping ahead of them."


The worst for raging after being overtaken are usually the 45mph club. The ones that will accelerate as slowly as possible to exactly 45mph and stay there regardless of the speed limit. It could be a 30, 40, 50 or NSL road and they just plod along at exactly 45. Then theres the 45mph nutters that rage when you overtake them in an NSL only to catch up and do the whole raging angry tailgating thing in the slower limits only to get left behind again when the limit raises again.