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From: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Automatic High Beam Flashers
Message-ID: <214@ittral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 21:45:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: ittral.214
Posted: Thu Sep 12 21:45:41 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 03:30:34 EDT
References: <692@ihu1g.UUCP>
Reply-To: hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall)
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Organization: ITT Telecom B&CC Eng. Group, Raleigh, NC
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Summary: 

In article <692@ihu1g.UUCP> rls@ihu1g.UUCP (r.l. schieve) writes:
>...
>I have been told by others that these circuits are available.
>Are these high beam flashers really legal?  My bike riding
>experience has always been to keep a low profile an not annoy
>people in bigger vehicles. 
>
>Any comments or similar experiences..... and are these flashers
>legal???
>
>				Rick Schieve
>				...ihnp4!ihu1g!rls

They are legal, even if somewhat obnoxous, but the reason for them is
quite good. You're much more likely to see a rider during the day if
his headlight is on, and supposedly a blinking headlight is even more
visible. I'm not convinced, but I've seen a lot of them lately...
maybe that's the idea....?

Anyway, I don't want one on my bike. If they can't see a quartz
halogen headlight then blinking it from high to low beam probably
won't help much. What do you think?

Doug Hall
ITT Telecom
Raleigh NC
ittatc!ittral!hall