Country Road Bikers

Supercell

I was driving in my car all the way from Annamoe to the m50 behind a biker this morning in the drizzle and rain.

From my own previous experiences as a biker these are the worst of conditions - light rain drizzle sticks to the visor which is probably fogged up.

I kept a fair car distance back behind him with my lights dipped.

In retrospect maybe this was the wrong thing to do ??

Maybe putting on fogs and full beams would have helped him navigate a little? as he doesn't have a cabin that lights up like a car causing night blindness

What do the bikers here feel?, if you are driving a country road after dark in the rain..is it helpful to have a car a safe distance back with full beams on ?

As an ex biker (am extremely careful to try and respect the bikers on the road around my car.

The Doktor

Id much much prefer if a car stays well back, with dipped lights on.

art

Vote for dipped lights here too - full lights from behind are going into my mirrors and thus my face, which can be very distracting.

Idleater

Longfield wrote:

I kept a fair car distance back behind him with my lights dipped.

In retrospect maybe this was the wrong thing to do ??

Maybe putting on fogs and full beams would have helped him navigate a little? as he doesn't have a cabin that lights up like a car causing night blindness

Good lord NO!

So you were planning on blinding someone who as you say yourself may not have the best visibility already?

:mad:

I had some Fckwit behind me (say 100m) on the strawberry beds a while back with his Full beams on.

I slowed up and stuck on the hazzards.

Nothing.

He eventually switched them off when I practically stopped in the middle of the road.

Idiot.

And it wasn't even raining/poor visibility...

L.

saobh_ie

Generally if somebody on a bike is having difficulty seeing and a car comes up behind them they'll pull over and travel behind it but lights aren't bad on bikes these days, rubbish compared to cars but not bad.

The light misty rain is the worst sort, wiping the visor with the clean part of a glove every couple of minutes sorts that though.

Definitally don't try to help, he'll help himself if he's interested.

Krusty_Clown

It's good of you to think of the bikers safety, but in the same token, I'd leave it up to the biker. In my case (and I've had to do this many times), I would have pulled over, let you pass, and followed behind you instead..

The full-beams would be reflected in his/her mirrors, in which case they have an additional hazard to put up with (or adjust their mirrors, so they could no longer see behind them :eek: ).