(eastern long island's north fork) to do much riding at night. you either hit them or they hit you.
got one of them deer whistles but i guess i put it on backwards. attracted them like ducks on a junebug.
You killed Bambi----I Hate You!
Jack
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(eastern long island's north fork) to do much riding at night. you either hit them or they hit you.
got one of them deer whistles but i guess i put it on backwards. attracted them like ducks on a junebug.
Easy. Pony up for a new K1600GT or GTL with the adaptive headlight. Problem solved.
Harry
I'll avoid saying what I think about lights providing enough light to ride 100mph on the desert or fast in the woods with brights but I can say that here in E. KY mtns you don't have stopping distance even in the daytime for deer that pop up in/after a curve or come from the woods. We recently had a deer, same size as the pic shown here, that ran abruptly from roadside toward my PU truck in broad day light, then as I was well into ABS braking & had come to a stop, it leapt from a few feet short of my front bumper (actually seemed to have gone over the rt headlight) & over the bridge side to my right & down into the creek. It was an amazing leap & not a situ. that lighting had a thing to do with avoiding. I'll admit brights help but not a solution that gives one much liberty. We have roads in my area, that at night, you are nuts or have a death wish if you go fast because of deer presence. Many other states have the same situ..
End of curmudgeonly , senior moment...
I "hunted " jackrabbits for years, so not much I don't know about them. The 10cents bounty kept me & my buds in .22 shells. I was thinking that deer lived on the desert & coyotes, not bears . Humans live/drive there some too, the times I've crossed which have been several. I'll give that if there's a public road to speed on the desert is it. beep beep...You barely feel a jackrabbit when you hit it. They aren't even worth swerving for. But I dial it back in places where deer or bear are around. The desert isn't one of those places. The nearest anything to where I live is over an hour away, and there is literally nothing between here and there but open, uninhabited desert.
What "rights" are at risk?
I would say how much lighting you use, or do not use, depends on traffic and how well lit the road is. At night on a desert road in the Great Basin where traffic is nearly non-existent, but wildlife is abundant, an array of aircraft landing lights might be sufficient, but you wouldn't dare run that kind of lighting on an LA freeway.
There is no hard and fast rule that can replace judgement.
I will admit there have been occasions in LA traffic that I wanted a light so bright and intense, that were I to shine it in the rear window of the microcephalic cretin who just cut me off that the interior of his or her car would literally glow and the hair on their head start to smolder. You know, one of those times when even a 100 watt high beam doesn't make a strong enough statement. Something like the Night Sun light carried on many big city police helicopters would do.
Night sun group buy?
What "rights" are at risk?
As far as rights are concerned, you do not have a right to drive much less a right to put whatever you want on an motor vehicle operated on public roadways. You only have privileges, authorized by the state you are a resident of and generally recognized by the other states in the union.
Similar to issues surrounding "excessive sound" (aka: noise) our rights to accessorize our bikes with suitable driving lights could be at risk.
Due to excessive noise, there are now extensive restrictions on aftermarket exhausts in California.
The same thing could happen with lights.
(which leads to the great question: how long will it be before our passion is regulated out of existence?)
Ian
ps => thanks for all the excellent replies in this thread, sorry I haven't revisited here... been out riding!
whatever....
rather pedantic, methinks.
You already have regulations regarding lights on motorcycles. As earlier noted more than one state limits the number of lights on bikes as well as cars for that matter. You have other limitations on how you can accessorize your bike. Put some red and or blue lights facing the front (especially flashing ones) and see what happens.
As far as rights are concerned, you do not have a right to drive much less a right to put whatever you want on an motor vehicle operated on public roadways. You only have privileges, authorized by the state you are a resident of and generally recognized by the other states in the union.
Personally I am very much in favor of noise limitations on bikes, cars and even trucks, big and small. Others may enjoy the sound of the exhaust and or stereo but there is absolutely no right to inflict it on others or to disturb the peace of others.