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The 'rabbit caught in headlights' scenario applies here. Their is a natural tendency to stare blindly at the headlights approaching you.

Another tip to that already provided is to make a conscious effort to look at the left hand verge of the road and ease off the throttle until the vehicle has passed you. This helps you to maintain your position on the road and not get temporarily blinded by the lights.

People driving around with their fog lights on, just 'cos its cool, annoy the tits off me... Im going to take a hammer to someones lights one day!

Ive had several 'sh!t, cant see crap' moments... always when Im doing about 60 though and always near a bend!

Im sure its illegal to have fog lights on unless its foggy..... sadly.. as theres hardly a police car to be seen around here, they get away with that... though it lets my have some fun on the dual carriageways

I have the same issues.

What I tend to do is when I see the lights approaching I flash main beam a few times and then keep main beam on until I can actually see the lights of the car approaching. I then turn main beam off. If they don't immediatly switch main beam off, I turn mine back on again. This will at the least give you a fighting chance to locate the edge of the road and give you some guide as to where the road is going.

Also I will pull close to the kerb/verge and as the car passes, start drifting towards the middle of the road. This way, if you do find yourself unsighted and suddenly find a corner, you will at least be in the best position to attack it.

I also always back off when I see car lone car ahead of me, just incase of that exact situation.

I always leave mine on full until I'm sure they have dipped.

You are far more vulnerable in bad lighting conditions than them, and a bike's beam pattern is less spread over the approaching carriagway so let them suffer!

Suspension loads, steering, braking and lean angle all make your beam direction change and your field of vision diminish at night.


It's good practice to go back onto full beam the moment they've passed (or even alongside you) to help your eyes re-adjust as soon as poss.

Opening the Visor isnt really an option for me, I wear glasses so with the weather like it is, if I shut the visor again I'l have cr*p on the lenses of my glasses and the visor as well.

I ride a lot of country lanes - no lights at all - there just isn't any other way other than raising the visor, even without glasses when an oncoming car blinds.. I'd say it's as bad without glasses - a lot of flying gunk with no visual protection. The visor adds another refractive layer to the glasses - add a Fogcity visor and by the time the eye accommodates to the dark after being blinded, it's so easy to go hedge-wards.

It really demands high concentration - I find that tracking the white line on the nearside is the hardest thing to do.....if all else fails, slow right down... .