If they pull over at night the most likely reason is the person in the car ahead of you is just tired of getting flashed by your "bright" headlights in their rearview mirror. Wish the Spyder actually had low beam lights rather than a mechanical cover that just blocks the top half of the beam. If you go over bumps or small inclines in the road the Spyder headlights will be high enough to hit the rearview mirror of the vehicles in front of you.
I agree. I dislike the shutter system also.
When riding behind cars and on dims, you get cars thinking you are flashing them, so they pull over.
With oncoming cars, if you run on dims, they flash you sometimes due to higher front suspension (happened to me when I installed the Elkas) because my front end was 3-4 inches or because you are riding two up and that pushes the angle of the light beam up.
I have an RT with foglights. So what I am experimenting with is adjusting my bright beam headlights down to the
minimum level that I am comfortable with riding on a nighttime road with no other traffic. Then, my intent is to run
ONLY on brights all the time. I think this will work fine when 1 up. When 2 Up, I may get flashed sometimes, but I'll just flip my fog lights off and on to indicate to the oncoming cars that I am on "dim" even though I have manipulated my lights or I can flip to dims temporarily.
Not sure if that makes sense or not, but basically what I am doing is trying to take the shutter system out of the equation, and I am trying to run a "one size fits all" approach to my headlights. I can always flip the fogs on if I need more light.
What do you all think of this approach? It may be silly, but so far it seems to be working. I haven't had a car that I am following pull over using this method, and I seem to be getting flashed from oncoming much less also.
Either way, the shutter system on the RT currently is much too sensitive to bouncing to be effective IMO.
