Blacked out bikes and visibility

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02-01-2019, 11:43 AM

Buster217

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Originally Posted by Mchad

It looked to me like one motor bumped the other - not any other cars involved?

Looks to me like the officer on the left suddenly realized that they were rapidly approaching the small white car in front of them and slammed on the brakes and locked up the rear tire causing him to veer off to the right. So it does kind of demonstrate the point in that the officer apparently didn't see they were closing on the car until it was close enough to cause a panic reaction. The video also makes a good case for ABS.

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02-01-2019, 11:48 AM

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I saw it as the right rider is looks over his right shoulder while merging right, sees a car approach and veers left without looking left and hits the other rider.

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02-01-2019, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Sanjuro

I don't know that it really makes that much of a difference with the color a the bike. Get what you like.

For me, I think that visibility more comes from the lights on the bike.

R,
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Indeed!!

Before adding additional spotlights mounted on engine guard.

How I roll at night. Yeah, they are as stupid bright in person as the picture looks.

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02-02-2019, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ryan06

Looking at new Road Kings lately, and would prefer a standard, but there is one ***** of a good deal nearby on a Road King Special. black. Not nuts about just one headlight, especially with no chrome on this bike, and am concerned about not being seen by all those zombie cell phone retards out there. For you guys that have gone from a bagger with passing lamps to a blacked out bike with just one light, did you notice more issues in traffic than before?

Those zombie will not see you even during the daylights hours.

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