Originally Posted by GriddleCakes

Car/motorcycle lights aren't the same as most bike lights, because car/motorcycle lights have shaped beams with a cutoff on the top to stop too much light from splashing up onto the face of oncoming traffic. Some bike lights also have shaped beams, but most don't; combined with the fact that you pass oncoming traffic by only a couple of feet, it can make bright lights incredibly annoying, especially if they're flashing. Plus, bikes often take more than just "a second or two" to clear you on the MUP.

I'm not as old as you, but I have been driving and cycling long enough to know how to deal with oncoming brights. That doesn't mean that, even though I can deal with them, the person with their brights on isn't an inconsiderate ****head.




No, please don't.

Unless you're in a sanctioned, signed, and publicized race on an MUP; in which case, go get 'em!