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Night Vision

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From: swel...@mztech.fsnet.co.uk (sweller)
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Subject: Night Vision
Date: 24 Jan 2022 07:47:45 GMT
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 by: sweller - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:47 UTC

Dear Cathy and Claire,

Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.

The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me get
past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going pretty
slowly with randomised swerving.

I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but they
aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v bikes in
various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know terrible
lights when I see (ha ha) them.

The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.

I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
shit I've owned or had to work with.

However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
- going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

--
Simon

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 by: Tosspot - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:02 UTC

On 24/01/2022 08:47, sweller wrote:
> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>
> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>
> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me
> get past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going
> pretty slowly with randomised swerving.
>
> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but
> they aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v
> bikes in various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know
> terrible lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>
> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>
> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst
> driving or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well,
> given the shit I've owned or had to work with.
>
> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age
> thing - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

I think it's these LED lights, I don't see it so bad with HIDs and
filament lights.

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From: me...@home.nl (geoffC)
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 by: geoffC - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:28 UTC

On 24/01/2022 09:02, Tosspot wrote:
>On 24/01/2022 08:47, sweller wrote:
>> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>>
>> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
>> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>>
>> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
>> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me
>> get past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
>> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going
>> pretty slowly with randomised swerving.
>>
>> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but
>> they aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v
>> bikes in various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know
>> terrible lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>>
>> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
>> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
>> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>>
>> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst
>> driving or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well,
>> given the shit I've owned or had to work with.
>>
>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age
>> thing - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>
>I think it's these LED lights, I don't see it so bad with HIDs and
>filament lights.
>

Eyes definitely go thought charges at around 50. The lens becomes stoffer
necessitating reading glasses and the gel in the eye shrinks and detatches
from the back of the eye with can case a detac

--
Geoff

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From: a...@b.c (Gyp)
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 by: Gyp - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:49 UTC

On 24/01/2022 09:28, geoffC wrote:

> Eyes definitely go thought charges at around 50. The lens becomes stoffer
> necessitating reading glasses and the gel in the eye shrinks and detatches
> from the back of the eye with can case a detac
>

It fucks with your spelling too.

--
Gyp

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 by: Gyp - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:50 UTC

On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:

> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

Bit of ageing but also the eyes reacting to the bright oncoming light
then taking a while to readjust

--
Gyp

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 by: Pete Fisher - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:23 UTC

On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:

>
> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>

Welcome to my world.
--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

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 by: geoffC - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:34 UTC

On 24/01/2022 10:28, geoffC wrote:
>On 24/01/2022 09:02, Tosspot wrote:
>>On 24/01/2022 08:47, sweller wrote:
>>> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>>>
>>> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
>>> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>>>
>>> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
>>> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me
>>> get past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
>>> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going
>>> pretty slowly with randomised swerving.
>>>
>>> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but
>>> they aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v
>>> bikes in various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know
>>> terrible lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>>>
>>> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
>>> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
>>> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>>>
>>> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst
>>> driving or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well,
>>> given the shit I've owned or had to work with.
>>>
>>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age
>>> thing - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>>
>>I think it's these LED lights, I don't see it so bad with HIDs and
>>filament lights.
>>
>
>Eyes definitely go thought charges at around 50. The lens becomes stoffer
> necessitating reading glasses and the gel in the eye shrinks and detatches
> from the back of the eye with can case a detac

detached retina, did in my case anyway. Have had any laser treatment on your
Eyes?

--
Geoff

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 by: Spike - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:53 UTC

On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:

> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
> or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
> shit I've owned or had to work with.

> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

At a first guess, it's you. Get your eyes checked out.

Also, as you age, your digestive system doesn't necessarily process all
the stuff that's in your diet, so you can eat well yet suffer from
deficiencies.

Another problem is that UK soils are low in the element selenium, and
so cereal crops are also deficient in this element. Selenium is of
importance for the proper functioning functioning of the optic nerve.

My suggestion: take a supplement containing lutein, zeaxanthin, and
meso-zeaxanthin (these are important for the functioning of the macular,
the part of the retina responsible for fine-detail vision); and take a
selenium supplement. Don't expect early results. Get checked out for
age-related cataract.

--
Spike

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 by: Pete Fisher - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:56 UTC

On 24/01/2022 10:34, geoffC wrote:
> On 24/01/2022 10:28, geoffC wrote:
>> On 24/01/2022 09:02, Tosspot wrote:
>>> On 24/01/2022 08:47, sweller wrote:

>>>> However, it has become much worse of late.  Is this a normal age
>>>> thing - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>>>
>>> I think it's these LED lights, I don't see it so bad with HIDs and
>>> filament lights.
>>>
>>
>> Eyes definitely go thought charges at around 50. The lens becomes stoffer
>> necessitating reading glasses and the gel in the eye shrinks and
>> detatches
>> from the back of the eye with can case a detac
>
> detached retina, did in my case anyway. Have had any laser treatment on
> your
> Eyes?
>
>

I managed to partially detach the retina in my right eye 33 years ago.
Bashed my eye socket in to the corner of my Vauxhall Magnum boot lid
while loading it up after a Mallory Park open practice day on the Rotarini.

The eye hospital fixed it by sewing a blob of something on my eye ball
and laser 'spot welding'. They spot welded the left one as well as a
precaution as apparently I might be susceptible to that coming adrift.
Possibly even genetic as my late father managed to detach his by a
window frame eye socket interface while playing table tennis in Kenya.

As usual, the hospital was dealing with at least one squash player when
they sorted me out. Rather gratifyingly, they referred to me when
bringing students to peer into my eyes with various contraptions as 'a
young detachment'.

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

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From: pet...@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk (Pete Fisher)
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Subject: Re: Night Vision
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:00:15 +0000
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 by: Pete Fisher - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:00 UTC

On 24/01/2022 10:53, Spike wrote:
> On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:
>
>> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
>> or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
>> shit I've owned or had to work with.
>
>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
>> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>
> At a first guess, it's you. Get your eyes checked out.
>
> Also, as you age, your digestive system doesn't necessarily process all
> the stuff that's in your diet, so you can eat well yet suffer from
> deficiencies.
>
> Another problem is that UK soils are low in the element selenium, and
> so cereal crops are also deficient in this element. Selenium is of
> importance for the proper functioning functioning of the optic nerve.
>
> My suggestion: take a supplement containing lutein, zeaxanthin, and
> meso-zeaxanthin (these are important for the functioning of the macular,
> the part of the retina responsible for fine-detail vision); and take a
> selenium supplement. Don't expect early results. Get checked out for
> age-related cataract.
>

"Oh no, not another one!"

I already rattle with pills, what with the two for hypertension and the
various supplements SWMBO persuades me to pop every day.

Will '"do my own research".

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

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 by: Spike - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:23 UTC

On 24/01/2022 11:00, Pete Fisher wrote:
> On 24/01/2022 10:53, Spike wrote:
>> On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:

>>> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
>>> or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
>>> shit I've owned or had to work with.

>>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
>>> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

>> At a first guess, it's you. Get your eyes checked out.

>> Also, as you age, your digestive system doesn't necessarily process all
>> the stuff that's in your diet, so you can eat well yet suffer from
>> deficiencies.

>> Another problem is that UK soils are low in the element selenium, and
>> so cereal crops are also deficient in this element. Selenium is of
>> importance for the proper functioning functioning of the optic nerve.

>> My suggestion: take a supplement containing lutein, zeaxanthin, and
>> meso-zeaxanthin (these are important for the functioning of the macular,
>> the part of the retina responsible for fine-detail vision); and take a
>> selenium supplement. Don't expect early results. Get checked out for
>> age-related cataract.

> "Oh no, not another one!"

> I already rattle with pills, what with the two for hypertension and the
> various supplements SWMBO persuades me to pop every day.

> Will '"do my own research".

Please do! Keep taking the supplements; it only gets worse as you get
older, so...treasure your missus...

--
Spike

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 by: Mark Olson - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:03 UTC

geoffC <me@home.nl> wrote:
> On 24/01/2022 09:02, Tosspot wrote:
>>On 24/01/2022 08:47, sweller wrote:
>>> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>>>
>>> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
>>> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>>>
>>> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
>>> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me
>>> get past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
>>> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going
>>> pretty slowly with randomised swerving.
>>>
>>> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but
>>> they aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v
>>> bikes in various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know
>>> terrible lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>>>
>>> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
>>> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
>>> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>>>
>>> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst
>>> driving or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well,
>>> given the shit I've owned or had to work with.
>>>
>>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age
>>> thing - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>>
>>I think it's these LED lights, I don't see it so bad with HIDs and
>>filament lights.
>>
>
> Eyes definitely go thought charges at around 50. The lens becomes stoffer
> necessitating reading glasses and the gel in the eye shrinks and detatches
> from the back of the eye with can case a detac

PVD:
Posterior Vitreous Detachment- got it in both eyes. Plus floaters.

Yay.

--
FJR1300A, GL1000, KLR650A6F, EX250J9A, DR200SE, Vespa Ciao

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 by: Salad Dodger - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 15:35 UTC

On 24 Jan 2022 07:47:45 GMT, "sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
>- going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

My left eye has awful night vision, the right is fine - as tested by
walking from the light switch to bed, in the dark, with one eye
covered.

No evidence to support any hypotheses about detached retinas, or lens
replacement, but both of those were in the right, so ...
--
Salad Dodger
1690 FLHTK;GL1800D
Previously ...
CB1300SA8;GL1800A6;GL1500SEV;CBR1100XXX;
CBR1000FL;CBX1000Z;GPz750R;Z750E1;Z650C2;
KH500A8;KH250B3;TS250c;TS185c.

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 by: Bruce Horrocks - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:39 UTC

On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:
> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>
> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>
> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me get
> past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going pretty
> slowly with randomised swerving.
>
> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but they
> aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v bikes in
> various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know terrible
> lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>
> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>
> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
> or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
> shit I've owned or had to work with.
>
> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

It could be you. There are several possible reasons ranging from getting
old to going blind. :-(

If simple tricks like looking away from on-coming headlights don't work
then a trip to the optician is probably called for, just to be safe.

That said, modern car headlamps are too bright: on one occasion (before
pandemic) I actually had to stop and let a car overtake me because his
headlamps were so effing bright my car cast a shadow and I couldn't see
the road. And that car had halogen headlamps so not completely useless.

Also, modern cars are so big that the headlamps are 6 inches higher off
the ground than before and that means you'll get blinded more often.

But now we've left the EU we can introduce local rules! (But people will
have to die first because that seems to be the only way that road-safety
related matters get changed.)

--
Bruce Horrocks
FJR1300AS

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 by: Boots - Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:48 UTC

On 24/01/2022 17:50 Gyp penned these words:
> On 24/01/2022 07:47, sweller wrote:
>
>> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing
>> - going fucking blind at night - or is it me?
>
> Bit of ageing but also the eyes reacting to the bright oncoming light
> then taking a while to readjust

I was kind of amazed to notice the other night how after ~1/2 hour or so how
much lighter the bedroom was than when I retired.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

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 by: Mike Fleming - Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:21 UTC

On 24/01/2022 22:39, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>
> That said, modern car headlamps are too bright: on one occasion (before
> pandemic) I actually had to stop and let a car overtake me because his
> headlamps were so effing bright my car cast a shadow and I couldn't see
> the road. And that car had halogen headlamps so not completely useless.
>
> Also, modern cars are so big that the headlamps are 6 inches higher off
> the ground than before and that means you'll get blinded more often.
>
> But now we've left the EU we can introduce local rules! (But people will
> have to die first because that seems to be the only way that road-safety
> related matters get changed.)

Use your blue passport to shield your eyes?

Not sure what local rules would help. Maximum brightness, specific
colour spectrum, maximum headlight height? And what chance would there
be of the rules (other than headlight height) being enforced?

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 by: TMack - Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:20 UTC

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:47:45 +0000, sweller wrote:

> Dear Cathy and Claire,
>
> Last Thursday I rode to Norfolk - the Holt area on the north Norfolk
> coast - by 6pm I couldn't see a bloody thing.
>
> The dark seemed to suck all light out of the sky and my headlamps -
> oncoming cars were blinding and I had to stop to let cars behind me get
> past simply because I couldn't make out where the road
> started/stopped/seemingly merged into the hedgerow. So was going pretty
> slowly with randomised swerving.
>
> I know the BMW 1150GS lights are not as good as the Triumph's but they
> aren't terrible (and they were clean) - I've owned a lot of 6v bikes in
> various states of decay of their electrical systems, so know terrible
> lights when I see (ha ha) them.
>
> The ultra bright lights on modern vehicles are more likely about the
> very white colour of the output than intensity but I really struggle
> with them and find them very uncomfortable to face.
>
> I have always had an aversion to bright oncoming lights whilst driving
> or having bright clocks in a car/bike/train. Just as well, given the
> shit I've owned or had to work with.
>
> However, it has become much worse of late. Is this a normal age thing -
> going fucking blind at night - or is it me?

It's probably over-bright poorly-adjusted headlight on other vehicles.
However, get your eyes checked. The lens of the eye stiffens with age,
which can adversely affect rapid adjustment of focus. Driving glasses may
help. Also - one of the early signs of cataracts is problems with night
driving vision. The developing cataract(s) tend to diffuse the light,
making brightly-lit high-contrast objects and their surroundings a bit
blurry.

--
Tony
FJR1300, Suzuki ST400, BSA Bantams x2, BSA C10L, Norton Electra.

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