Tinted Windshield
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I assume everyone is ready to pull out in front of me, because everyone does.
To add to this, it doesn't matter if they are looking straight at me or don't look.
You'd think a red F350 with all the fancy lights Ford puts on them rolling on 35's would be noticeable but it might as well be a white Tesla in a whiteout snowstorm to most people.
Back when I was riding motorcycles near daily, it was always fat fucks pulling out from whatever fast food was nearby, and 9/10 had their face covered by the wrapper. I couldn't see their face, I know they couldn't see me. I have a friend who was hit this exact way and spent a few weeks in ICU and about 6 months recovering.
When I had mine I rode primarily interstate to and from work and liked that everyone was going the same direction and nobody could pull out in front of me plus 70+ mph and lots of lane options.
One day I got sent to a training class instead of the office and there was an accident on my normal interstate at the time I’d normally been riding home and a motorcyclist was killed. The traffic ahead of him stopped and so did he. The car behind him didn’t.
I got out of road bikes shortly after that.
I just put the full doors back on. I have 35% tinted windows. I hate it and I'm going to remove the tint before I kill someone while driving at night. I don't know how you can drive with the windshield tinted.
It's the other people that you have to worry about. That same reason is why I won't drive my old cars into or around big cities, why my wife wouldn't ride with me years ago, and why many guys just quit riding like you did.
I also had purchased a summer car too so not having time to use them both in my 2.5 months of good weather also played into it.
I'm running 20% on windows and 40% on the windshield, rain or shine or 4AM when I head to work I don't notice any issues seeing out.
I run the ceramic 3M stuff for the UV/Heat blocking, could problems with low light conditions be a substandard film?
Before 2021 I had never run tint, and my brother in law was showing me his set up for his commuter.
I wasn't going to run windshield tint, but talked to the install guy and he showed me the set ups they had at the shop so I went with it.
I had concerns about visibility in low light, but have not had issues.
Since I've added to my wife's car as well.
I run the ceramic 3M stuff for the UV/Heat blocking, could problems with low light conditions be a substandard film?
Before 2021 I had never run tint, and my brother in law was showing me his set up for his commuter.
I wasn't going to run windshield tint, but talked to the install guy and he showed me the set ups they had at the shop so I went with it.
I had concerns about visibility in low light, but have not had issues.
Since I've added to my wife's car as well.
Installing non-ceramic tint is worthless. I always have clear ceramic installed over the factory tint to block the heat. It works great.
While it may be the larger vehicle that wins,guys on bikes play their part in getting killed. 99% of my interactions with riders on highway is getting passed at 20mph over the limit while crossing the double yellow on blind turns. It pisses me off that guys on street bikes treat the highway like a racetrack and endanger everyone(except harley's,those guys are usually courteous drivers).
I think good ceramic does help.
The cheap tint I used to run back in high school that you'd buy at like Kmart or Walmart was not nearly as good as what I have now.
Agreed on the tint quality!! There is a massive difference in the guy that did it with Wally World tint vs. a pro using quality materials. I think that is why none of my windshields have given me any issues. Only drawback I could see to tinting a wrangler is it can make the cab feel a bit smaller than it already is but I am NOT going to have a personal vehicle with clear windows. LMAO.
That's seem to be more of an age/experience thing. When we're young and invincible, we tend to push the limits. I know I did, but I wasn't a complete dumbass about it, I wasn't passing in a curve or doing the other dumb shit that I’ve seen riders do, like splitting lanes. I just liked to speed too much. My dad knew that and made sure I had a Harley to ride in an effort to keep me off of crotch rockets.
To go along with what you said, I have a quick story. I knew a guy who died being a young, invincible dumbass. Like many, we used to ride as a group, usually 5-10 or so of us. One Saturday we had been out riding, and we decided everyone would head home, clean up and regroup at a local Hooters, pretty normal event. On my way to meet back up with a few of the guys, I came up on a blocked road (old highway). I knew several of the volunteer firemen on scene who told me what was going on, a bad situation. One of the guys from my group was almost home, like within a mile of his house, but decided he wanted to ride wheelies near his house. Witnesses said he had been doing that for 5-10 minutes. He was running at a high rate of speed (estimated north of 100) and dropped it. He flew off toward a field on the right but hit a group of power pole guy wires. I heard they picked him up in 5 pieces. To make things worse, his bike bounced off the road surface into the other lane and hit a Harley head-on. The Harley riders, a man and wife, had to be air lifted, and I know one of them spent weeks in ICU but lived. I don't know how their story ended, but the guy from my group died more or less instantly and left behind a newborn and 4-year-old daughter. The event was bad all around, but that's the part of the story that bothers me the most. All but 2-3 of us quit riding after that.
I quit riding when my son was born.
At first it was my wife's wishes... and we compromised by her letting me get a project car (since then she let me add a second project (the LJ) to the list)
Since my son was born I've lost two friends to accidents while riding.
When I finally sat and thought about it, and 3 additional children later... I love riding, but not enough to risk them missing me.
Also, helps to have a Jeep and an old fbody convertible to feel the wind on my scalp.
but if I'm honest about it even without that I don't think I'd get on the bike again.
At first it was my wife's wishes... and we compromised by her letting me get a project car (since then she let me add a second project (the LJ) to the list)
Since my son was born I've lost two friends to accidents while riding.
When I finally sat and thought about it, and 3 additional children later... I love riding, but not enough to risk them missing me.
Also, helps to have a Jeep and an old fbody convertible to feel the wind on my scalp.
but if I'm honest about it even without that I don't think I'd get on the bike again.
My cousin had a Honda cbr years ago before he had kids. One day he was telling me he wanted to change sprockets on it because he could only ride a wheelie to 80,but then he wouldn't be able to do 180 anymore. I told him I didn't know which was scarier. Speeds are approximate but it was something like that.
A story you hear a lot is " my friend died so I quit riding to be able to see my kids grow up". Most guys can say that.
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