I was pondering on the way to work this morning... Why don't bikes have fog lights?
If bikes came with fog lights, people would just take them off and replace them with aftermarket mini carbon fibre fog lights that are too small to see.
This is something that I never understood. I'm all for aesthetically pleasing motorcycles, but replacing indicators with ones that are too small to see seems really stupid. SMIDSY-tastic mate.
Andrewr At Work wrote: [snip] Do you see a lot of pedestrian crossings in 50mph roads? You Northerners are a crazy bunch ;-). I do see your point however.
It doesn't have to be foggy. Yesterday on the M25, clear visibility etc., in the car and I had to queue to get off at Jct 25. The lorry behind me had to go on to the hard shoulder to guarantee he didn't rear end me[1][2]. [1] Fnarr, fnarr. [2] As it happened, he stopped a couple of yards short be he obviously didn't know that he could, IYSWIM.
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LOL. Thats funny, because it was almost exactly this scenario that got me thinking. Stopped at a set of lights on red and sure enough, there was a 30 ton lorry bearing down on me at about 50 in a 30. I mean, It ain't rocket science to stick an extra bulb on the tail and a switch on the bars.[1] Bastards. <sub-gripe> *How* many cars did I see on the way to work without their lights on? easily 10 (or more) on a 12 mile journey. Which is 10 (or more) than it should have been given the fog (in the East Mids) this morning. Bastards. </s-g> <sigh> [1] Having said that, in this particular scenario, the traffic lights would have been significantly brighter than any fog light.
I live in the east midlands, despite the light mist I reckon there was still a good 1/4 mile of visibility. Fog is when you can't see 50 yards down the road.
Why is it stupid? Why does it increase your risk of a SMIDSY? How do you ride your bike if having too small indicators will place you in position of risk? My Guzzi has *no* indicators neither, for that matter, did most of my other machines past and present over the last 18 years. The only SMIDSY I've had was on a straight road.
.... I reckon it was about 100 yds visibility going over the Trent at 7:30 a.m. and about the same in the vale of Belvoir. That's Fog, in my book. On the higher ground it was, as you say, a light mist.
It may be because it's impractical to have the fog lamp far enough away from the brake light to prevent it being masked by the fog lamp. wibble flip
No indicators is fine, its when riders fit ones that are so small they are invisible yet still drive like someone could see them.
