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<blockquote data-quote="Bounce" data-source="post: 1433402" data-attributes="member: 257"><p>I would vary that just a little. There are 2 needs for light; seeing and being seen. Each serves a purpose but one doesn't do the other necessarily well. Mount the lights high-and-wide for SEEING. Mount them lower to BE SEEN. Low end up with your beam buried in the pavement close to the front of the bike. Good for others looking for vehicles* but not so good for you to see something in time to react. Vice versa.</p><p></p><p>* I've read quire a few compelling arguments that address the mechanism going on inside a driver's brain. In it they discuss the busy mind and how it "chunks" complex events into single/simple groups that are then prioritized based on "highest risk" to the driver. They may look right at a motorcyclist and not "see" them because their brain is busy and doesn't see a motorcycle as a high enough risk to them to bother reporting to their conscious mind. The opposite of that would be an 18 wheeler that should raise tons of flags and get the express train to the conscious;; yet we've all heard and seen people cutting off big trucks in the face of the risk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bounce, post: 1433402, member: 257"] I would vary that just a little. There are 2 needs for light; seeing and being seen. Each serves a purpose but one doesn't do the other necessarily well. Mount the lights high-and-wide for SEEING. Mount them lower to BE SEEN. Low end up with your beam buried in the pavement close to the front of the bike. Good for others looking for vehicles* but not so good for you to see something in time to react. Vice versa. * I've read quire a few compelling arguments that address the mechanism going on inside a driver's brain. In it they discuss the busy mind and how it "chunks" complex events into single/simple groups that are then prioritized based on "highest risk" to the driver. They may look right at a motorcyclist and not "see" them because their brain is busy and doesn't see a motorcycle as a high enough risk to them to bother reporting to their conscious mind. The opposite of that would be an 18 wheeler that should raise tons of flags and get the express train to the conscious;; yet we've all heard and seen people cutting off big trucks in the face of the risk. [/QUOTE]
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