Coloured headlamps
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Following on from the flog lights thread, there is a growing trend for bikers particularly to have coloured tints on their headlights. Not strictly legal methinks.
Now the other day I was about to exit a side road, and glanced right for traffic. Saw a bike, red light, looked away. About to pull out when something clicked - it was on the wrong side of the road. Looked back to see a (much closer and travelling fast) bike WITH A RED TINTED HEADLIGHT. Crimson bloody red tint!
This has got to take the biscuit as the most suicidally stupid thing I have ever seen anyone do to their wheels. What the hell is he going to say (if indeed he can say anything) when someone pulls out on him and takes him out? I can't see his insurance paying out, and I'd be mighty surprised if any accident is not deemed to be entirely his own fault. I hope to hell he gets pulled and made to see sense before its too late.
Red tinted headlight, and riding like a lunatic. Is there some weird biker deathwish cult I have missed?
Phil
Now the other day I was about to exit a side road, and glanced right for traffic. Saw a bike, red light, looked away. About to pull out when something clicked - it was on the wrong side of the road. Looked back to see a (much closer and travelling fast) bike WITH A RED TINTED HEADLIGHT. Crimson bloody red tint!
This has got to take the biscuit as the most suicidally stupid thing I have ever seen anyone do to their wheels. What the hell is he going to say (if indeed he can say anything) when someone pulls out on him and takes him out? I can't see his insurance paying out, and I'd be mighty surprised if any accident is not deemed to be entirely his own fault. I hope to hell he gets pulled and made to see sense before its too late.
Red tinted headlight, and riding like a lunatic. Is there some weird biker deathwish cult I have missed?
Phil
Speaking as a four wheeled and two wheeled Piston Head, I can only apologise on behalf of my brethren. Don't judge all bikers by your experiences of one though. You get idiots in all walks of life and he probably also owns something similar to the mark 3 1.6 Fiesta that I often see in my local Tesco car park. Fake harnesses, FOUR bean can exhausts, flared wheel arches and indicators covered in ... black!
Don't think it's a deathwish - but it is certainly very stupid 
Lights and window visibility are the two things never to play with on any car or bike - unless it improves the functional (rather than asthetic) performance of them.
They tend to have strict legal / homologation regulations for very good reasons.
Lights and window visibility are the two things never to play with on any car or bike - unless it improves the functional (rather than asthetic) performance of them.
They tend to have strict legal / homologation regulations for very good reasons.
The bright blue or purple ones are good for getting cagers out of the way though, but Plod doesn't approve for some reason.
Red is stupid, but is useful for scaring people. eg, drive with lights off, then flick 'em on when you're closing on someone. But not me, oooh nooo. Really no, not joking here.
Red is stupid, but is useful for scaring people. eg, drive with lights off, then flick 'em on when you're closing on someone. But not me, oooh nooo. Really no, not joking here.
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