sign from above????

[Leo]

So I thought I'd take this opportunity to say that I haven't disappeared.

Hi Melena,
I need your advice, please check your PM.
Thnks,
Leo

[Mr_Smart]

Hi Y`all.
Just readin Bob Roller`s post re the number of Bike fatalities and Its a sobering post.

Over here in Ireland our motorcycle accident stats do not make pleasant reading.
In our case its the same story in mirror image...the car driver making a RIGHT turn in the face of an oncoming mororcycle.....what should be the simplest,safest of manouveres turns into a veritable death row of Mororcyclists.

The issue of visibility,conspicuity, and ensuring we have some means of impacting upon the drivers MIND rather than their VEHICLE is to me one of the Keys to staying alive on two wheels in an environment where our fellow roadusers are enclosed in a micro environment which encourages total relaxation and a disassociation from the world at the end of their hood....!

Have to say that a WHITE R65 supporting a WHITE Vetter Windjammer V with a WHITE helmet on my empty head does appear to snap most Drivers awake......  

[Ed Miller]

Hey Mr. Smart, do you have a picture of that set up?  It sounds nice.
Ed

[suecanada]

Just want to say that I read that the headlight modulators were good at getting the car driver's attention...BUT it didn't work for me as a guy in Jackson, WY. one morning last summer pulled out and did his lefthand turn right in front of me as I was proceeding through the intersection in town with traffic lights.  He sat still for ever so long waiting and only drove left at the last second..thank goodness for ABS brakes and me not taking my eyes off him. Another fellow from the right also did his right hand turn before me. Yeeesh! Really good it was slower speed city driving. All I saw was a red coloured pickup truck bed going by at what seemed like one foot away from my front  tire.

Anyway, I have been thinking that maybe it was the headlight modulator that caused confusion on the car driver's part....DID he think I was flashing him to go ahead and turn in front of me?  My riding buddy says that's false thinking and the guy was just another idiot. I am so catatonic about it now that I am turning OFF my modulator intown!  BTW, I wear a white helmet and the Olympia hi-viz yellow jacket.

What do you guys think??......Helen Two Wheels got pushed off the highway by an 18 wheeler driver who says he thought her modulator flashing was telling him it was OK to pull over. She was only 1/2 way along the truck's length at the time he pulled over!

[Bob_Roller]

I personally look at the situation as, put bright lights on the front.

On the R65, I have PIAA 40 driving lights 6.25 inch ( 160 mm) round style, with PIAA H3 superwhite lamps installed, and PIAA superwhite H4 for the headlight.

It may be a bit too much for night conditions, but since I installed them, I havn't had anybody pull out in front of me.

I also use the high beam on the headlight during day light riding.

On the oilhead, I have PIAA 510 driving lights installed with PIAA H3 superwhite lamps, and PIAA superwhite H4 headlamp.

[Mr_Smart]

Ok Bob and all,I`m going to take a stab at puttin up some images of my steed !!

[Mr_Smart]

OOps..cart b4 Hoss...here goes agin....

[Mr_Smart]

3Rd of 4 Pitchers......

[Mr_Smart]

And just to restore equiblirum.....The Last one...PHEW !

[Ed Miller]

Whoa, Mr. Clean's machine!  Nice.