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30 Posts | Latest reply on 18/10/2012 16:46:46 by JimmyJ | Go to original / last post
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Now before some of you get a big smile and start clicking on profile pictures.......calm down and restrain yourselves....lol Was just wondering how many fellow bikers/ or if you are in the car use the traditional flashing of the head lights to warn oncoming drivers of a speed trap ahead...... Seems not very many people warn each other these days?.. .....so what about you?
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I certainely warn bikes..always have and always will...even with an arm wave out of the window telling them to slow down...Im nawty lol..                                                                                                                                                                             
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Absofekinlutely . Standard trucker , a couple of flashes and a thumbs down . Dusty x                                                                                                                                                                              
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I should add , trucks . . Yes cars . . No bikes . . . Yes scooters . . . No . Dusty x                                                                                                                                                                              
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  ...the traditional flashing of the head lights to warn oncoming drivers of a speed trap ahead......   It may be 'traditional' but it aint in the highway code.  To flash the headlights means you are 'indicating your presence'.                                                                                                                                                                             
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it ain't in the .code . coz it's against the law to warn people of speed traps . Dusty x                                                                                                                                                                              
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I always do,particularly for camera vans!                                                                                                                                                                              
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I go the whole hog and aim to 'indicate their presence' .. I flash my lights, roll down the window and utilise my hand signals as best I can by doing a 'slow down' signal to the on coming traffic and point repeatedly in the direction of the Censored hiding in the bush! 
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I really dislike camera vans,I think one got me this week.....
Still at least one didn't as I got a flash from an oncoming car to warn me,so flashing works!
                                                                                                                                                                             
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always always always dont care what you ride/drive....its a feckin revenue earner nothing to do with safety and it brings out all my anti establishment badness! bastards!                                                                                                                                                                             
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If I see a camera van and have half an hour to kill I park 100 yards away from it and let people know its there-it annoys the van operator and makes me happy for a while,easily pleased I know!                                                                                                                                                                              
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  I think my meaning was misunderstood, I wasn't on about speed traps. I meant that in the highway code it states that a driver uses their headlights to indicate their presence on the road.   The headlights shouldn't be flashed for any other reason is what I was trying to convey.                                                                                                                                                                              
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yes i flash all the time to all road users(second nature being a trucker)Cool                                                                                                                                                                             
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I flash other people (if i like the look of them). If its some d**khead boy racer them stuff em.   But word of warning police are starting to enforce no flashing. They now sometimes have a car sat about 50-100 yards away if anyone flashes they stop them and charge them with 'obstructing an officer in the line of their duty'. Thumbs Down                                                                                                                                                                             
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Yes, I saw an item on a local news programme re  what you've just said about obstruction  OMNF........
 
just think, all those cops hung around waiting to catch a 'possible criminal', and all those cops that are no where in sight when real crime needs dealing with!!!!                                                                                                                                                                               
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Lol @ not supposed to flash your lights...... Your not supposed to do a lot of things..... Park opposite a junction within 25 yards of a junction                                                                                                                                                                             
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But word of warning police are starting to enforce no flashing. They now sometimes have a car sat about 50-100 yards away if anyone flashes they stop them and charge them with 'obstructing an officer in the line of their duty'. Thumbs Down    But officer I thought you were about to pull out so I flashed my lights to warn you of an approaching vehicle Thumbs Up                                                                                                                                                                             
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I agree with Kwakgirl; I always flash (my lights...those days are left behind at the Floral Hall!! LOL )                                                                                                                                                                              
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. so THATS why they flash at me!! Duh!! ~ Here's me thinking they liked my red car...                                                                                                                                                                              
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always been a flasher...always will be a flasher ...try and stop me...x                                                                                                                                                                             


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