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people in front pull over?
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cohoff
GOS member (Girls On Spyders)
I have had the same experience with my 2012 RT. I followed my brother (who was driving his car). He said it looked like I was flashing my headlights at him all the time and it was distracting. I was told that my headlights are not adjusted properly and that my rear suspension is not set stiff enough.
SpyderAnn01
Active member
Ride with your high beams on during the day. It makes you so much more visible and your won't piss off the people in front of you.
SAPD911
New member
thanks all
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
The Spyder RS and RT have projection headlight lenses, that cast a narrow beam. In the daytime the focused portion of the beam will tend to bounce in and out of view of oncoming drivers or drivers looking in their mirrors. To them it looks like you are flashing your lights at them. All motorcycles, being lightweight vehicles, tend to do this when they bounce, but the narrow beam cast by the projector lenses makes the effect much stronger. Having the headlights adjusted too high, having the rear suspension set too soft, or even carrying a passenger can raise the beam and make things worse. Adjust your headlights a little lower and/or increase your rear suspension setting/preload and ride with your high beams on during the day to lessen this problem. If it makes you feel any better, I also ride an ex-CHP BMW (in Michigan) and they pull over when they see that coming, too.
hyea:My wife complains my high beams are to bright when I'm following her on the Spyder, but doesn't have a problem with them on low, so its either my headlights are adjusted just right or..... Could it be my superior driving abilities?
Bob Denman
New member
As long as they're getting out of your way! :thumbup:
SpyderAnn01
Active member
Better they are too bright then they can't see you coming. Get your wife her own Spyder then you won't have that problem :roflblack:
Bob Denman
New member
:agree: Or, you can always ride in FRONT of her... 
Dan_Ashley
New member
If you have a black Spyder and wear a white helmet it is almost comical. They KNOW you are the cops--transplanted from the TV show Almost Human!
Chupaca
New member
Don't know..!!
about others but on a trip down the coast I had a friend on an RT ryding behind me. At certain times the flashing lights were changing colors reds and blues. This may be a combination of polorized sunglasses and glare but it did look like police lights...:yikes:
about others but on a trip down the coast I had a friend on an RT ryding behind me. At certain times the flashing lights were changing colors reds and blues. This may be a combination of polorized sunglasses and glare but it did look like police lights...:yikes:
NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
The polarized lenses could make it worse, but there is a prismatic effect a the edges of focus of the projector lenses, so at some angles the lights aren't bright, they are colored...and flashing.
Bob Denman
New member
What should we say, when a LEO pulls us over, after getting complaints?? :shocked:
ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
They have you covered. I see a lot of LEO's and have wondered about getting stopped many times. Never happened though.
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