Thumperbike
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One thing I miss about my Triumph T-bird was its standard equipped "trigger" to flash to high beams. It sure came in handy.
Isn't this exactly a headlight modulator wired into the high beams? (daytime that is)
One thing I miss about my Triumph T-bird was its standard equipped "trigger" to flash to high beams. It sure came in handy.
Yes, but I think that you should tell us how you REALLY feel.Off topic,
Cigarettes have no place in public. They f*** up the health of the smoker and bystanders. I have to live with athsma for the rest of my life because one of my parents smoked in the house when I was growing up. Don't even give me that "it's a free country" BS! I served this country to protect freedom, but not for the freedom to "kill thy neighbors" because someone doesn't want to be thoughtful about their addiction. I can hardly breathe when someone is smoking up wind from me. It makes me want to use deadly force to respond to the attack on my life.
If you want to smoke, do it a small closed room so you will only kill yourself, not everyone around you!
Let's not unless you want this thread closed and/or people to take vacations for guideline transgressions.Yes, but I think that you should tell us how you REALLY feel.
I'm sure you were.I was only kidding Ig
I'm disappointed. Where's my "mental mastubation" quote?For crying out loud...............
6 pages and 104 (now 105) replies on the subject of high beams during the daylight?!?!
Winter is coming early this year.
I fully agree here. If you flash your lights at a vehicle that you think may be about to pull out on you, the message to him is, "Well, I'm already stopped, so he must want me to go."Flashing your brights is the international "go ahead" signal.
Thank you. That quite succinctly summarizes what I do now, and plan to continue, until I am run over by a Peterbuilt, or perhaps die of atherosclerosis (which is the more probable scenario of the two).I will continue to run w/ my high beams on during the day (none of that flashing stuff for me). I do try to remember to turn them to low when riding behind others. My personal view is that the benefits far outweigh any negative possibilities.
Heidi
Or second-hand smoke :rofl:Thank you. That quite succinctly summarizes what I do now, and plan to continue, until I am run over by a Peterbuilt, or perhaps die of atherosclerosis (which is the more probable scenario of the two).
i've heard 1 or 2 other people claim this over the years. i attempted to discuss it with the first one for a while and eventually gave up because he was on the verge of exploding about it as an issue.I fully agree here. If you flash your lights at a vehicle that you think may be about to pull out on you, the message to him is, "Well, I'm already stopped, so he must want me to go."Flashing your brights is the international "go ahead" signal.
GUNNY!all i can say is that i've ridden all over the country and NEVER found where blinking my high beams meant "okie dokie" to anyone other than a commercial trucker who has just passed me and wanted to get back over. i've seen flashed highs use to warn others that a cop is behind you (which used to be common) and flashed highs as the common way to let someone know you wanted them to move their asses out of the left lane (but pained pussies now claim this is "road rage" when emotion has nothing to do with it). but my modulators or flashed highs at intersections have NEVER been used as a signal to indicate that i am waiving my right of way to someone entering from a position of yielding. EVER.
Of course you never used it to signal "go ahead" but, it doesn't really matter what it means to you. It's what it means to the other driver.GUNNY!all i can say is that i've ridden all over the country and NEVER found where blinking my high beams meant "okie dokie" to anyone other than a commercial trucker who has just passed me and wanted to get back over. i've seen flashed highs use to warn others that a cop is behind you (which used to be common) and flashed highs as the common way to let someone know you wanted them to move their asses out of the left lane (but pained pussies now claim this is "road rage" when emotion has nothing to do with it). but my modulators or flashed highs at intersections have NEVER been used as a signal to indicate that i am waiving my right of way to someone entering from a position of yielding. EVER.
In all my travels, I have never heard of the 'flashing high beams = yielding of right away'. So just how common is it?
Oh, certainly not.... Why I'd bet my life that the dope sitting there in the left turn lane knows this and I'd just start flashing away....As someone else mentioned, this seems to be mostly (only?) true in intersections, certainly not with on coming traffic about to turn left in front of you.
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