It is 4:50am, high fog and pitch black. I’m on my commute route to work - the same two lane twisty road I have ridden to and from work on and everywhere else I typically go for the last 27 years - I’m doing about 50 mph just coming out of a curve and rolling on the throttle - A car is coming toward me and I dim my head light - The car passes and I hit my high beam.
Lights Out! Holy S*#@!
I’m going into my next curve and there is no other lights except a house in the distance to far to give me any indication where the road is. There is a high dirt bank on the left side and minimal shoulder on the right with a 4-5 foot drop off into a farmer’s field.
That is what I said to myself in the split second while I was rolling off the throttle and breaking. I suddenly feel my front tire sinking into soft dirt on the right side shoulder just as I’m coming to a rapid stop.
Holy S*#@! I didn’t crash!
I was about 4 miles from home and after I stopped filling my pants and a couple of cars passed from behind me I realized I still had a tail light and my turn signals still worked.
I tuned around a drove home with the right turn signal lighting the white line showing me the way.
Got home and found a blown fuse on my light circuit but not knowing why it blew I drove the car to work.
I added driving lights last year and found a connector that could have possibly touched the inside of the headlight housing(taped it) and the separate fuse holder for I put inline to the driving lights was a cheap one and it looked like the fuse could be intermittently making contact cause of a weak spring so I replaced it.
Moral to the story -
I am going to figure out where to power my driving lights, separate from my headlight.
)I'll bet the Dogg can relate, huh Ian?