The Vintagent Selects: Bad Dog
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Alright buddy. Listen up!
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Plug-and-play tach for Classic 350
The inexpensive new motorcycle
TX 2003 Military
Custom outfit for Super Meteor 650
CO 2015 Chrome
OR 1957 Super Meteor
TX 2015 GT 535
CO 2022 650 custom
CA 2017 C5
MN 2009 C5
CA 2014 C5
OH 1956 Tomahawk
CA 2015 B5
A critical look at the Himalayan 450
AL 2003
Shotgun 650 on second thought
IA 1959 Patrol Car
Bullet 350 in U.S. MSRP: $4,499
Distinguished gentlefolk ride
Monday, August 16, 2010
Royal Enfield sidecar lights up for safety
A 2006 Royal Enfield Bullet with sidecar, for sale on CraigsList in Michigan, shows an interesting modification that never occurred to me.
The owner has added a tail light to the sidecar wheel fender, and mounted an extra turn signal to the outside front edge of the sidecar.
The effect, especially at night, would be to visually "widen" the motorcycle to almost automobile width.
It's clever, and I'll bet it really does increase safety, at least marginally.
We know that automobile drivers don't seem to have the same subconscious respect for motorcycles they show for approaching cars. A driver who would not dare pull out in front of an oncoming car will do so in the path of a motorcycle.
I don't think it's a mean streak. I really think it's the experience, repeated hundreds of times daily, of judging how close a car may be by how far apart its lights are. If a motorcycle somehow had widespread lights, it might be more intimidating and thus safer.
Maybe the solution would be to put a headlight in the nose of that sidecar!
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Ural's onto it already,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imz-ural.com/gearup/
Regards
Jorge