Riding with the brights on.

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Banjo Man

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I'm sure this topic has come up several times but why don't people get it!
When approaching oncoming sleds at night, please dim your brights. It seems that every night I
Go out I am blinded by someone with their brights. Don't these people realize that I am coming
at them with totally obscured vision. The other night I was the lead sled in my group and it was
snowing pretty good when we came upon 4 sleds all with their brights on and running within 10'
of each other at a pretty good clip. I had to pull off the trail to let them by because all I saw was
a white haze. And they had to be limited in vision also if they had mirrors with the guy behind
him. The halogen headlights on the newer sleds work great but on hi-beam they are blinding to
oncoming sleds. Please dim them when approaching and let others in your group know also.
Thx.
 
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buddah2

Member
Don't simply assume they are riding with all brights on unless you actually saw somebody switch to low beams and back. I know a guy that sells HID headlight kits for Yamahas and they are EXTREMELY bright.......as in three to four times the stock ones. I know, I have a set.

And before you ask, after I installed them I purposely adjusted my headlights slightly lower due to the increased brightness and distance. FYI.
 
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Banjo Man

New member
buddah2 said:
Don't simply assume they are riding with all brights on unless you actually saw somebody switch to low beams and back. I know a guy that sells HID headlight kits for Yamahas and they are EXTREMELY bright.......as in three to four times the stock ones. I know, I have a set.

And before you ask, after I installed them I purposely adjusted my headlights slightly lower due to the increased brightness and distance. FYI.
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I am glad you have headlights 3-4 times brighter and can see better at night. My point is a safety concern for riders who are blinded by oncoming headlights whether high beams or not. And yes, thank you for adjusting yours not to do so.
 
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whitedust

Well-known member
During last posting some people insisted on riding with brights 24/7 unless approaching oncoming sled at night but during the day they refuse to dim. They feel they can be seen better with brights on 24/7. To me this is misapplication of snowmobile lights & plain wrong. Many others don't think so thus the problem will continue until we all have fried eyeballs.:(
 
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