I´ve been riding some very nice roads the past few days and occasionally had time to think about this subject in between topes. I also had the opportunity to remove the tape from my headlight and observe the change. I had fog coming down from Tuxtla Gutierrez on M190 yesterday morning and removed the tape to make myself visible at all. Once the fog lifted I kept riding and once again was getting the various headlight flashes, hazard flashers going and people not turning, just signalling. I replaced the tape at a gas stop, and all that went away. This is not my imagination. The time while I was riding in sunlight with my headlight on was also the only time since I´ve been in Mexico that I´ve been forced to the shoulder by a driver passing a bus who would not back off. He saw me, it just didn´t matter. He was mas macho; he won, I took the shoulder.

I´ve decided the headlight modulator falls into the category of the teenager wearing a tshirt with a vulgar saying, or the woman wearing an extraordinarily short skirt. It definitely attracts attention, but does not always create a positive image. I believe this to be particularly true in a culture which communicates with headlights as much as Mexico does. Once again, just an opinion based on what I observe here and subject to the usual possibility that I´m dead wrong.