Good term "Stadium Lighting". I swear 10 motos around a field could start a baseball park. All they need is a hot dog cart to roll up.
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Motos with no damn lights.
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If I pull up next to someone at a light and let them know something is not working it's usually like you're accusing them of genocide. A rude aggressive response is the norm, particularly from Gringos. The locals tend to glaze over and then run the light to get away from you. Just last week I was behind a beat up pickup truck dragging about 20 feet of rope behind it. I could envision another vehicle driving over the rope and the truck bed coming right off the truck. At the light in Charamicos I gathered up the rope and tossed it into the back of the pickup and the Dominican driver flipped out as if I had just ruined his well planned insurance scam.
With a lot of vehicles these days, you don't even need a screwdriver to change a tail light. I'm perplexed at those who drive an unblemished luxury vehicle and can't seem to find the time or be bothered to perform the most basic checks and maintenance. The right brake light on my neighbors SUV hasn't worked for the last 18 months. I guess as long as it starts, all is good to go.
With a lot of vehicles these days, you don't even need a screwdriver to change a tail light. I'm perplexed at those who drive an unblemished luxury vehicle and can't seem to find the time or be bothered to perform the most basic checks and maintenance. The right brake light on my neighbors SUV hasn't worked for the last 18 months. I guess as long as it starts, all is good to go.
And this is a good reason to try to avoid buying a used vehicle from a Dominican, yet every ad in Cortos says Único Dueño, Nunca Chocado y Mantenimiento al Día.
Horse crap. Maintenance here is fix it only when it stops moving and then add more LED lights and a new steering wheel cover. Then do a cheap paint job over bondo on all dents,
Follow with Armorall on the motor and bald tires and sell at a ridiculous high price for a high mileage clunker.
Caveat Emptor.
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Don't tell everybody! Now I'll never sell my junkpile...All that investment in Armorall as well..
The irony is that on this very forum folks have posted endlessly about being scammed by Dominicans who pull up next to their car with news their sled is broken...
Dominicans in general seem to be more reactive than proactive and this lazy attitude effects
many aspects of Dominican society as a whole.
The first 1/2 dozen times I visited the DR I wondered "What in hell happens to the tail lights of motos?" Even relatively new bikes had none, could never understand it
Rumor has it that anything that consumes electricity or restricts airflow results in a loss of engine output power. Best to remove these things so you can go faster. Removing the mirrors improves airflow and makes it easier to dodge between other vehicles - double bonus.
But that making more power theory doesn't hold water with the extra stadium lights they tack on front. I saw a new Isuzu Dmax pickup tonight with 6 stadium lights and it was like looking into the sun.
It probably was warm enough to melt Icarus's wings.
I think the rear lights are out on motos because they stack 2 fat women and 3 kids on a cheap Chinese bike built for one 160 lb rider and it pinches the wires.
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Those are LED's and are known to draw less power so they will use them.
The "lights suck power" has been around for decades, a myth that seems to be changing...
The moto situation will be regulated properly and continuously in the DR around the same time we have world peace and totally open boarders.
Just one of the situations we need to acclimate to if we are to live successfully in the DR. We are not the tail that is going to wag this dog.
Just one of the situations we need to acclimate to if we are to live successfully in the DR. We are not the tail that is going to wag this dog.
Sadly mistaken there. If your name is on the Matricula, more that likely you're going to have problems if the vehicle is in an accident, no matter who is driving.
That's why it's important to insure the matricula is transferred when you sell your vehicle.
I've seen it happen to folks here a few times.
After a while they become white noise. I don't even freak out anymore with them in traffic.
That said, I detest driving on the main drag in Puerto Plata. Moto drivers there are maddening.
Exactly. And that reason is WHY I arrange for the transfer of the matricula when I sell a vehicle instead of "trusting" the buyer to do it.
Having spent a fair amount of time with several Dominicans the problem isn't their IQ, as many are quite intelligent and resourceful. The problem is their crap education system and families which don't teach them how to plan, or how to value and care for the things they do manage to own.
Top that off with the way many disrespect the environment and also mistreat animals and steal from Eden Norte and it is easy to get angry with them.
But I find they are loving of their families and many like to associate with extranjeros and not always for reasons of financial gain.
But riding motos without lights at night does lead me to believe those riders have walnut size brains.
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Top that off with the way many disrespect the environment and also mistreat animals and steal from Eden Norte and it is easy to get angry with them.
But I find they are loving of their families and many like to associate with extranjeros and not always for reasons of financial gain.
But riding motos without lights at night does lead me to believe those riders have walnut size brains.
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