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From: mojo@mp-mojo.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Daytime high vs low beam
Message-ID: <30.UUL1.1#119@mp-mojo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Oct-86 14:24:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 21 14:24:20 1986
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> Not to add much but I recently took an MSF course at an USAF Base
> in  Wash.  D.C and they recommend high beams in daylight.  I only
> use high beam when cars start getting thick (like  heavy  traffic
> or  freeways). I've been driving many years and when they started
> the mandatory lights on business, cars pulling out in front of me
> decreased  quite  a  bit.   I'm sure using high beams will give a
> rider a better chance of visibility.  That is unless he's using a
> modulator.   Anyone  out  there  get the same advice from MSF in-
> structors?
> 
> {peregrine,felix}!ccicpg!news (sorry no other login I can use)

I just returned from the MSF/NHTSA Motorcycle Safety Conference
in Reno, attended by about 80 other instructors and 15 chief
instructors.

The opinions among that group appeared to be about the same mix
as the opinions on net.cycle.  But the curriculum director for MSF
(Peter Fassnacht) said that high beams on during the day had about 
the same effectiveness as a modulator, and was better than low beams.

There was one other pragmatic argument that he presented:  If you're
going to wear out and blow a bulb filament, better to blow the high
beam than the low.

Also, nifty trick if you *do* blow both filaments and have to get
home or somewhere:  Take the cover off the front left (or right)
turn signal, and pull the bulb from the left (or right) rear signal
so the flasher won't work.  Clever.

"The weakest part on a motorcycle is the nut that holds the
handlebars."		-- John Wyckoff

--
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Int'l Corp., Product Development
Northern Calif. Motorcycle Safety Council, MSF Instructor
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