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[Keats]

There is never to many lights out front
I do not need to ride with high beams on, I ride with passing lamps on all the time (except when high beams are used and they go out.....how annoying.....you need the most light and 2 go out)
I added a set of MOTO LIGHTS to the lower bike forks which are bright as hell and nobody misses me with them on.....aimed a little high but have not had any oncoming car problems yet.
I am changing the headlights (halogen H8 and H11) to HID's  12000K which is slightly purple.
If I am not seen now, what else can I do?  5 forwarding facing lights, I am like the sun.
Has anyone put a modulator on the Passing lights? That is the one thing I could do....

Modulators are legal because technically they do not flash (turn off and on) the lights, they just pulse
different voltages to look like flashes.  Also makes it look like you are traveling faster than you are which gives pause to other drivers.

[EGUC7]

There is never to many lights out front
I do not need to ride with high beams on, I ride with passing lamps on all the time (except when high beams are used and they go out.....how annoying.....you need the most light and 2 go out)

Many of us have re-done the stock wiring so that passing lights are on all the time, low or hi-beam.  Somewhere on the forum it tells how it is done.  Not complicated.

Ride Safe!
Walt

[murphy]

Wouldn't that mean night time, or raining?  Not daytime?  I would take that to mean it is not illegal to use a hi beam.

I do not ride with my hi beam on...but it is not a bad idea.

"Use of passing beam

168.  When on a highway at any time when lighted lamps are required to be displayed on vehicles, the driver of a motor vehicle equipped with multiple beam headlamps shall use the lower or passing beam when"


I'm pretty sure that this is a universal thing now... but up here it is mandatory to have a headlight illuminated on a motorcycle at all times!

[Sean M Cary]

I ride to work every day and almost every morning I used to get cut off by a car or truck.  about 4 weeks ago I decided to ride with hi beam and since then, in several occasions, I have seen cages starting to come to my lane and suddenly change their mind and stay away.  IMO if it can prevent a single close call a week, it's worth it.  Specially early morning that the traffic moves at 70-75 mph.

Have experienced that before or do you ride with hi beam on?

They say it's hard for a cage driver to judge a bikes speed specially over 50 mph.  I believe that the hi beam make them hesitate long enough to realize the bike is going much faster than they think.

always do...learned this like 15 years ago from an article I read.  We advocate it to our new riders in my MC club.

[Sean M Cary]

Nobody has ever cut me off whenever I'm on the combat bike. 

SWEET!!!  I want to ride with you!  Does that come with a Chuck Norris T-shirt?

[VaEagle]

Here is a link to an article about headlight modulators that states they are legal in the US and Canada plus install instructions and reviews etc.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/Reviewed-motorcycle-products/comagination/visipath/visipath.htm

If all else fail this is a photo of the bike I want...

[murphy]

The modulators are not legal in Ontario.

[chaos901]

Ride Electra-Glides, during the daytime I with the spots on and I also have my Motolights on.  The more lights in front the better.  The theory that I have read is that with only one light on that people have trouble picking up your relative speed.  Having some spacing between the lights they can work on the aspect change of the lights. 

Anyway that is what I do, still have folks pull out sometime.   

[J-Carr]

I still advocate that lights and pipes do very little if anything to keep you alive.  Alert riding and treating everyone like the enemy who will pull out in front of you, turn it front of you, swing into your lane or not stop in time behind you has kept me on the road for over 70k miles and 23 years without an accident.  I've tried the highbeam, spot lights, and pipes personally and they just didn't help.  And I hate those modulators (Personal opinion).

Ride Safe,
J-Carr

[Keats]

I still advocate that lights and pipes do very little if anything to keep you alive.  Alert riding and treating everyone like the enemy who will pull out in front of you, turn it front of you, swing into your lane or not stop in time behind you has kept me on the road for over 70k miles and 23 years without an accident.  I've tried the highbeam, spot lights, and pipes personally and they just didn't help.  And I hate those modulators (Personal opinion).

Ride Safe,
J-Carr

If you used all of the above and you never had an accident......how do you know they never worked?
sounds like something was working.......

do not get me wrong.....I do not know what has kept you safe,but are you sure you do?

23 years without an accident is impressive.....

usually my thoughts were not focused on never but when......

[customryder]

hi beam always on in daylight... love it when the cage flashes me in the daytime

[SERK3]

I ride with high beams on during the day

[WFP]

On the Deuce, I ride with Hi-beams on during the day...

[bisounours]

It's illegal in Europe when we've vehicles on same or others ways.

Jacques

[JCZ]

I still advocate that lights and pipes do very little if anything to keep you alive.  Alert riding and treating everyone like the enemy who will pull out in front of you, turn it front of you, swing into your lane or not stop in time behind you has kept me on the road for over 70k miles and 23 years without an accident.  I've tried the highbeam, spot lights, and pipes personally and they just didn't help.  And I hate those modulators (Personal opinion).

Ride Safe,
J-Carr

You've been riding 23 years and only have 70k miles in the saddle?  Is that a typo?

If you don't think they "help" (not the total cure all) then ask somebody who has put several hundred thousand miles in the saddle......or better yet, try riding with stock mufflers and no head light.  It just doesn't sound like you're speaking from much experience.