Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
Tourer
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From: Amarillo, TX
RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
ORIGINAL: mp
. Probably cause as many accidents as they prevent.
. Probably cause as many accidents as they prevent.
As for me I think I want one. As annoying as so many people in this thread seem to find them that tells me one thing... they must be seeing them very well to be so annoyed by them.
Road Warrior
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From: Southern California High Desert, here and there....
RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
ORIGINAL: grunt
I'd have no problem pulling the concealed gun out and firing a few at someone playing ragin cagin.
ORIGINAL: whaap
With road rage being a big issue today and assuming the bike will always lose in an encounter with a car, I am inclined not to have one for chances of pissing off some A** hole in a car. Just my 2 cents.
With road rage being a big issue today and assuming the bike will always lose in an encounter with a car, I am inclined not to have one for chances of pissing off some A** hole in a car. Just my 2 cents.
Road Master
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RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
I've used Headlight modulators for some time now. For those who feel it's 'annoying', I say, 'better safe than sorry'.
http://www.kisantech.com/index.php?cat_id=2
How many times have you seen/heard/read, "Well Officer, I JUST DIDN'T SEE HIM !!!" (re:Steelers quarterback)
One post here mentioned about the headlight blending into the background of another vehicle, and that's very true.
Against a backdrop of multiple vehicles, you will very well blend in, to the point of becoming one of those vehicles, therefore, invisible.
I use them, about 25-50% of the time, usually on one of those 'busy streets'.......4 or 6 lane type, with all the eateries, shopping centers, shops, where
folks are ducking in and out of on a saturday or sunday, making left turns across 2 or 3 lanes (your lane), pulling out of "Fill in the Blank" in front of you too.
Well, an old Chinese proverb..........'Better pissed off, than pissed on' is what I say. I'd rather irritate a driver, than have that driver apologize to the police officer
because he ran me over coz, "I just didn't see him".
I have my headlight modulators on the HIGH beams, and, they are normally OFF, but, when I encounter one of those 'areas' where folks get stupid,
I turn on the Hi Beams, modulated and all, but I DO GET NOTICED !!!
That's doing what I want them to.........get me noticed. Loud pipes ? Loud Headlights !
More people will SEE those, coz in a car, with A/C turned on, and music blasting, Cellphone in ear, they may not hear those Loud Pipes that supposedly save lives.
Drive like you're INVISIBLE !!!
http://www.kisantech.com/index.php?cat_id=2
How many times have you seen/heard/read, "Well Officer, I JUST DIDN'T SEE HIM !!!" (re:Steelers quarterback)
One post here mentioned about the headlight blending into the background of another vehicle, and that's very true.
Against a backdrop of multiple vehicles, you will very well blend in, to the point of becoming one of those vehicles, therefore, invisible.
I use them, about 25-50% of the time, usually on one of those 'busy streets'.......4 or 6 lane type, with all the eateries, shopping centers, shops, where
folks are ducking in and out of on a saturday or sunday, making left turns across 2 or 3 lanes (your lane), pulling out of "Fill in the Blank" in front of you too.
Well, an old Chinese proverb..........'Better pissed off, than pissed on' is what I say. I'd rather irritate a driver, than have that driver apologize to the police officer
because he ran me over coz, "I just didn't see him".
I have my headlight modulators on the HIGH beams, and, they are normally OFF, but, when I encounter one of those 'areas' where folks get stupid,
I turn on the Hi Beams, modulated and all, but I DO GET NOTICED !!!
That's doing what I want them to.........get me noticed. Loud pipes ? Loud Headlights !
More people will SEE those, coz in a car, with A/C turned on, and music blasting, Cellphone in ear, they may not hear those Loud Pipes that supposedly save lives.
Drive like you're INVISIBLE !!!
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From: Blue Grass (KY)
RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
Don't have one, but they do get you noticed. I'm been thinking about changing my passing lamps to the yellow ( amber) ones for this reason....want to be seen, not to see with...
Anyone use the J&P amber passing lamps???? Another brand better????
Anyone use the J&P amber passing lamps???? Another brand better????
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From: Rhode Island
RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
I think they are annoying, but that could be a good thing. I was hit when an idiot turned left and totalled me and the bike. I really think he saw all my lights (headlight and spots) and it looked like a car to him that was further down the road. I remember him saying "I thought I could make it." [:@]
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From: Tucson, Az
RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
Terminator, saying that they're annoying isn't saying you can't see regular headlights.
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RE: Modulating Headlight, Safe or Annoying?
I don't mean to pick on you MP but I had to say something. This response is the same logic behind loud pipes saving lives. You see, your comment sounds good but has no basis in any fact whatsoever. Just like there is no evidence, statistical or otherwise to suggest having an obnoxiously loud bike will do anything to keep you out of trouble. We all seem to grab ahold of some comment someone makes and repeat it. Repeating it enough makes it the truth. In the end the only people we hurt are ourselves.
The proven fact is that people see lights that change much more readily than lights that do not. Doesn't matter if it is a modulating headlight or a back-off brakelight system. Moving lights ATTRACT attention which is EXACTLY what you want when riding a bike. If people are going to hit you because you have a modulating headlight they were going to hit you anyway.
Also just FYI I have no vested interest in whether or not you use any system to modulate your headlight. But I sure would like to not have to read again about someone who got run over because a cager didn't see them.
The proven fact is that people see lights that change much more readily than lights that do not. Doesn't matter if it is a modulating headlight or a back-off brakelight system. Moving lights ATTRACT attention which is EXACTLY what you want when riding a bike. If people are going to hit you because you have a modulating headlight they were going to hit you anyway.
Also just FYI I have no vested interest in whether or not you use any system to modulate your headlight. But I sure would like to not have to read again about someone who got run over because a cager didn't see them.
ORIGINAL: mp
Annoying AND distracting. Probably cause as many accidents as they prevent.
Annoying AND distracting. Probably cause as many accidents as they prevent.
