Put your headlight on!

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I used to ride with my lights on during the day, but have stopped doing so. The amount of times I've seen lights from the opposite direction bobbing up and down, if I was dumb enough to think so, I'd think they were flashing me.
I've decided that with or without lights dozy fecks can't see you. With or without a loud can, they can't hear you, bright yellow bike don;t mean nowt, even with a neon sign on your head and an arrow pointing at you doesn't necessarily mean you aren't going to get knocked off, 'because I didn't see you coming'

I had a taxi driver the other week come out of a side road, I was going 28 ish, wasn't wanting to stop at all, and he pulled out waving at me smiling. I had to jam on the brakes on a main road, with someone up my butt.
Even when they eyeball you and see you coming they are out to kill you......and will bloody wave at you while they do it

They'd have to be a very poor driver to not realise!

[dizzyblonde]

you've obviously never driven in Halifax then

I think those strip light things on new Audis are great, they show the cars prescence without being hard on the eye but much more conspicuous than normal sidelights.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by BigFootIsBlurry

When I was learning my instructor used to shout and swear when bikes came the other way without their light on, scared the hell out of me the first time I heard an angry scotsman bawling in my ear for no reason I could see.

That is totally unacceptable. He should not be doing that over an intercom when he is supposed to be training somebody. Knob!

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Lissa

That is totally unacceptable. He should not be doing that over an intercom when he is supposed to be training somebody. Knob!

My instructor was funny I almost dropped the bike laughing some of the stuff he said.
He's a good instructor and cheap too. A cbt and four long days tuition £350.

I work at halfords and you'd be surprised at the amount of people that come in telling me they need a new head light bulb and yet dont even know what each of the 3 stages of their lights are. Most people seem to have no idea that the main lights you use are called dipped beam and the next step up are full beams. Then when you mention side lights they get very confused!

I always ride with my headlights on, although it may seem chavy I use a blue led for my side light, personally i think it makes the bike more noticeable whe. theres a blue light over normal head lights. I think the blue side light just helps a bit so you dont get lost in a sea of normal white/yellow lights.

[Dave20046]

I had a right go at my mate when he'd been driving for 2 months without even knowing the controls of his car. He'd never found his headlights *****