Coloured headlight filters.
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Hi folks, i shouldnt really be on here but i saw something the other day i would like to run by you.
A bike coming towards me in Lincs with a RED coloured filter on his headlight.The idiot had made his headlight look like a tail light. As a car driver looking for an overtake it worries the crap out of me.. Your comments..
A bike coming towards me in Lincs with a RED coloured filter on his headlight.The idiot had made his headlight look like a tail light. As a car driver looking for an overtake it worries the crap out of me.. Your comments..
its so you can spot gay bikers 
I posted a thread on exactly this a few years ago. Guy on a Fireblade with red lens covers. I was pulling out, looked right, saw nothing, looked left, saw nothing, was about to pull out to turn right onto the main drag when something "not quite right" registered. I looked right again to see dork-boy on his Fireblade bearing down at a huge rate of knots. At least 70mph in a 30 with red headlight covers. 
My first look had completely blanked him because of the red headlights - dismissed as the rear of a vehicle moving away from me. I must have subconciously registered that the red lights were getting bigger, which futunately for him bubbled up into a concious "hang on a minute" just as I started to manoeuvre.
This has to be one of the stupidest, most suicidal things you could with a bike. We all know the old "sorry mate I didn't see you"; to do anything to reduce the chances of being seen and recognised as a potential hazard is indeed the act of a Darwin candidate.
Suffice to say if you did pull out on an idiot like this I'm pretty sure that blame would be entirely with Darwin-boy, who would be prosecuted for running illegal lights and therefore responsible by virtue of not having any legal right to be there. Not that it would have mattered to my particular idiot as his brains would have been messing up my paintwork.
At least it wouldn't have taken long to wash off.
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Wednesday 19th October 18:19
My first look had completely blanked him because of the red headlights - dismissed as the rear of a vehicle moving away from me. I must have subconciously registered that the red lights were getting bigger, which futunately for him bubbled up into a concious "hang on a minute" just as I started to manoeuvre.
This has to be one of the stupidest, most suicidal things you could with a bike. We all know the old "sorry mate I didn't see you"; to do anything to reduce the chances of being seen and recognised as a potential hazard is indeed the act of a Darwin candidate.
Suffice to say if you did pull out on an idiot like this I'm pretty sure that blame would be entirely with Darwin-boy, who would be prosecuted for running illegal lights and therefore responsible by virtue of not having any legal right to be there. Not that it would have mattered to my particular idiot as his brains would have been messing up my paintwork.
At least it wouldn't have taken long to wash off.
>> Edited by victormeldrew on Wednesday 19th October 18:19
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