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Message posted by Riff-Raff on 08 January 2008 at 21:08 - IP Logged
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Hi All,
 
Could you please follow the link below and if you agree sign the petiton?
 
Please forward this email to your contacts so we can get as many signatories as possible.

The petition starter is a guy called Andrew Tonkin whom I am trying to get in touch with.

The Law for when sidelights, then headlights, should be used is clear & adequate. Unless in SERIOUS rain/fog then headlights outside half-hour after sunset to half-hour before sunrise is hazardous, as is use instead of merely sidelights in well street-lit 30mph zones. They (i) distract, (ii) obscure vision by extreme contrast & glare, (iii) make distance & speed of offenders hard to judge, (iv) mask indicator lamps, (v) make rear view mirrors useless (vi) increase pollution by the extra engine load, and (vii) daylight headlights on motorways merely dazzle oncoming traffic & distract those ahead via rear mirrors. If headlights were ‘safe’ we’d have them as bright as the sun front AND back –clearly nonsensical! Calls for more headlight usage above the already irresponsible & ‘bling’ or poseur inspired level today are surely only advocated by those with defective vision who rely on bright lights to avoid collisions. Such drivers give themselves away as unfit to drive.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/dopey-dazzlers


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Hello.  Not sure if we've "spoken" by email since you posted the above but in googling my very own invention of "dopey dazzlers" I find your blurb above and even that there's a guy out there called Andrew Tonkin who you're trying to get in contact with.  I'm at a.tonkin@lineone.net

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Hi Andrew. Thanks for contacting me.

I wrote the article in response to some fool in our local rag who was moaning that ALL bikers should ride with DLRs. I was quite annoyed that people state these things without ever researching their argument. I knew there was some campaigning AGAINST DLRs but didn't realise to such great extent. I found some of the information from your writings and found them interesting to read.

Needless to say the aforementioned fool never did come back with a valid argument !!

I was wondering how the petition eventually went and if any gaols against DLRs had been scored. It would also be good if you would pop in here once in a while and let us know how things are going.

Thanks Andrew

Dave

 


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I'm merely one mere car driver who gets annoyed at the sheer stupidity of dazzling each other with unnecessary lights.  The real driving force behind the campaign is someone called Roy Milnes who runs the www.dadrl.org.uk website.  My own principal gripe is against car drivers and lorries etc.  Motorcyclists could probably benefit from some kind of constant lighting but the problem is headlights are often too bright and misaligned and in any case at driver's eye level such that headlights themselves are not really the full answer.  I myself occasionally fire off letters to the DfT, The AA, MPs, police forces, insurance companies, newspapers, radio stations etc about the menace of illegal and uncessary headlight use but as I say I can't claim any real credit for having achieved anything in particular though I am absolutely sure the efforts of the few people like myself who can be bothered to take a stand are slowly but surely being given some attention.  I've registered a website called dopey-dazzlers.org with a view to showing photographs that illustrate the problem, which can then be referred to in the correspondence I just mentioned though as yet it doesnt actually do anything at all at the moment.

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I'm merely one mere car driver who gets annoyed at the sheer stupidity of dazzling each other with unnecessary lights. 

Motorcyclists could probably benefit from some kind of constant lighting

Car drivers who are experts on what a motorcyclist needs eh! How would we survive without them?

Like the campaign against dopey dazzlers. Maybe doing something about them twonks that drive with their full beam on, because it's only a biker and they don't count, could be another campaign. Or is shooting them still against the law?



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