loughlin1
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:18 PM |
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day running lights
Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loughlin1
Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights
I think you would get a better response if you had written..
..Just wondering what you chavs are using for day running lights
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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loughlin1
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:28 PM |
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oh its like that is it ooooooooppppppsssssssssss
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:31 PM |
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Sorry, they are my personal hate, the only ones which don't look like christmas fairy lights on a taxi are the BMW angel eyes, the Audi ones
make them look like 19 year old Saxo owner has been at work, totally cheapened a good car.
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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JoelP
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:42 PM |
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are day running lights different to side lights?
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:47 PM |
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are they different to spot lights ...
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PeterV
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 07:58 PM |
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Yep diffrent. They have to be a wide angle and non focused. They will here and have already in France killed enough bikers for the French to insist
that bikers start to wear hi vis jackets. How sad is the world going to get!!! 
One bad idea feeds into the next!
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Davegtst
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:04 PM |
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How do they kill bikers?
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:07 PM |
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Guns, knives, lethal injections.......
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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RK
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:08 PM |
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the fears are strange. why u dont want to be seen is odd. im not trying to start anything, i just like a bit of visibilty.
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PeterV
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:11 PM |
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How do they kill bikers?
Remember when you use to see bikers comming coz of the headlights? What happens when we all have headlights.
Who pays any attention to the beep beep beep of a truck reversing any more. Once they all do it we just switch off.
Just a matter of time before the UK HSE makes bikers wear Hi Vis jackets 
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SeaBass
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Davegtst
How do they kill bikers?
Probably because bikers like to rattle about with main beam on so you can seen them, or rather get pissed off by them. I had one trying to attach
himself to my bumper at 70mph today.
I guess the DRLs mean everyone gets used to seeing lights in the daytime.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 08:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loughlin1
Hi All
Just wondering what you chaps are using for day running lights
We dont, we dont need them.....
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Mr C
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 09:02 PM |
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Here's mine
DRL/Sidelight link
Girl walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre, so the barman gave her one
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britishtrident
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 09:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by PeterV
Yep diffrent. They have to be a wide angle and non focused. They will here and have already in France killed enough bikers for the French to insist
that bikers start to wear hi vis jackets. How sad is the world going to get!!!
One bad idea feeds into the next!
Right Yeah they make bikers invisible.
However either an automated version of the old Dim-Dip system or decent 10 watt side lights would have been better.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 10:04 PM |
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I agree with the fact they take away the bikers advantage, bikes have had DRL in Ontario Canada since 1970.
The cars got them in the 90's. With 7 type car I believe it is in our best interest to have DRL's.
Things are a little different here with the degrees of size of common road vehicles, in my area (rural) there are as many 4x4 full size pickup trucks
a cars, not to mention the 7 pasenger SUV's.
Then there are the lorrys, 53ft trailers the norm, 70ft maximum overal length.
In the summer we see many US visitors driving vehicles without DRL's and in low light or inclement weather they are harder to see.
I have lived with DRL's for years and the lights on my Locost come on with the ignition switch.
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RK
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| posted on 3/2/12 at 11:43 PM |
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Mine too, as an MTO requirement (I have LED "fog" lights). Every little bit helps when you are 1.5 feet tall.
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snowy2
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 06:43 AM |
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when i used to do motorbike training the issue of riding with lights on or not was always a hot debate, so i conducted an experiment, my group of lads
on a good sunny day drove a route with dip beams on and most of us had cars pull out in front of us......we then drove the route in reverse with
headlights off, no one had a car pull out in front of them. end of argument.
If lighting conditions are bad they help if lighting conditions are good the seriously hinder visibility, in the second world war they could hide
large aircraft from sight of submarines by switching on lights on the front of the aircraft small things like motorbikes can hide behind a
headlight......
sometimes you are the pigeon, most of the time the statue.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 08:31 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Sorry, they are my personal hate, the only ones which don't look like christmas fairy lights on a taxi are the BMW angel eyes, the Audi ones
make them look like 19 year old Saxo owner has been at work, totally cheapened a good car.
We are going through a phase when vehicle designers really just want to design Christmas lights, no thought is given to how well the lights do
the job.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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ash_hammond
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 09:03 AM |
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And then there are the cars that light one fog light when they are going round corners.
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RK
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| posted on 4/2/12 at 01:57 PM |
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You are indeed a funny lot over there. I would expect there are so many more things to fret over besides whether other people have lights on or not.
Just a different persepective.
[Edited on 4/2/12 by RK]
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