Is it right to flash "foggers"..

[puggy]

[DaiRees]

My car turns the fogs off on it's own after a preset time, accompanied by a audible chime. If you really need them you can turn them back on again. Good thinking I reckon! Only allows you to be a knob in half-hour stints


Does yours do that Puggy?

Damn you Rees! now I've got a dilema

Do I need to know if mine does it too
If so, how do I reconcile that with being the world No.1 fog light opponent
Imagine if someone saw mine lit

Still, there is Puggy to think about.....

I reckon you should take one for the team and carry out the above experiment fella

[neildavies]

When I (regularly) see oncoming cars with their foglights on, I assume they can't see the road well....

...So I help them out with main beam and my front fog lights.



(And I didn't know about the fog lights going off by themselves, probably haven't had mine on for long enough)

[turbolag]

I don't know whether I need glasses or what but I'm finding oncoming headlights to be very bright on my way home when I'm tired etc. to this end I get really pissed off with the "front fogs brigade" and give them a flash!

Problem is, as we age our sensitivity in our eyes shifts towards the white end of the spectrum, so we become more annoyed by this type of stupid behaviour.

I give 'em a full dose of my 407 Xenon mains to cauterise their retinas, er, I mean so that I can see the road ahead beyond they glare of their unlawfully illuminated foglamps.

Similarly though, I also hate being sat behind twots at junctions at night that insist on keeping their foot on the brake pedal - this is also an 'annoyance to other road users' lighting offence, but few people realise it.

[teamster1975]

I give 'em a full dose of my 407 Xenon mains to cauterise their retinas

[steve_earwig]

dreams of .50 calibre machine gun mounted on roof...

[teamster1975]

dreams of .50 calibre machine gun mounted on roof...

Flip down headlights with pop out machine guns! (Yes I was watching James Bond last night )

[steve_earwig]

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Blimey, I haven't had to think about that in a few years

-G6WOO

[mav]

Next time you see someone driving with their fogs on in good weather, smile, sympathise and remember....

It's morse code for "I haven't had a sh@g in months"

I suppose i should turn my front fogs on then! could also mean 'my right arm is bigger than my thigh!'

[RichA]

It's even worse on a bike when you've got smears of road salt all over your visor & some @rsehole has their fogs on

Yep, it's a huge problem for me when using the bike. I now just put my main beam on as soon as I see them... quite tempted to start noting the registration plates and hunt them out later to 'ensure' they can't use them again without paying a sizable amount of money to replace them ;).

I'd love to see a campaign against them. Too many people have no idea of the consequences of this misdirected light on a motorcyclist with a less than perfectly clean visor. The fogs scatter light in all directions, having exactly the same effect as main beam on a normal headlamp.

I'll get quite violent about it one day

--Rich

[turbolag]

I find keeping the visor clean for more than 30 seconds at this time of year is nigh on impossible, which isn't a clever idea with 197 brake on tap, so i've tucked the Kwaka up until the sun remerges.

[RichA]

Makes me glad I've got a car this year as well as the bike. I've spent the last 3 years with just a bike, and fog-light usage is the biggest annoyance of winter months. Even more-so than grit and ice .

What you running, a ZZR-1400? It's about the only Kwak I can think of nudging 200bhp

--Rich

[turbolag]

Aye lad, 2008 ZZR1400 ABS. Kwak claim 203bhp at speed with ram-air functioning It's like riding a cruise missile homing in on an Iraqi arms dump. But faster. Yank the throttle open in 6th gear at 30mph and it's like hitting hyperspace in the millenium Falcon. 110mph in 1st is achievable for the criminally insane.

Chopped my trusty ZZR1200 in for it back in setmeber, but due to a broken elbow I've not even done 1000 miles yet

Still, during next summer (scheduled for 3 days next July!) I intend to test the claims that it's a seconds and a half quicker over the quarter than a Veyron, and will achive 180 from standstill in barely half the distance a Veyron will. So, if anyone fancies keeping watch on the M45 for me while I check this out...

PS, before we get hundreds of posts calling me a reckless murderer, I'm only kidding! Im a big heavy lad and like a big powerful effortless bike to tow my lard around.

[teamster1975]

Jeeeesus!! That's a lot of power!!!
I'm happy with my trusty CB500 for now (Well, until I win the lottery )

[turbolag]

Passed my test in 1986, and immediately chopped in my KMX125 for a Suzi GSXR1100 of the day. 130 something BHP even back then. I hate slow bikes, nothing scarier than trying to keep up with traffic on a 125! Accident stats show no correlation between performance and your likelyhood of stacking it, so what the hell? I survived ok.