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General forum area => K1200 / K1300 Forum => Topic started by: lanerider on October 29, 2017, 02:47:12 pm
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(http://preview.ibb.co/hNdgd6/IMG_0077.jpg) (http://ibb.co/mhFirR)
total ebay cost £11 im soooooo happy
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(http://preview.ibb.co/kuPMd6/IMG_0078.jpg) (http://ibb.co/d5SJQm)
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Come on then - show them sparked up...... :D
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(http://preview.ibb.co/eGimFw/IMG_1210.jpg) (http://ibb.co/mL6j2b)
sorry for poor pic bike is hibernating amongst the clutter
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Nice. Can we have some more detail re brackets and connection to wiring etc please.
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i replaced the bolts that hold the light cluster with long stainless bolts of 5" which secured 4" of tube which i attached the light to and the power was supplied from a aux cigarette/usb socket which has a built in on/off switch i run from the battery and fixed to the headlight frame there is two fuses on route pretty easy really
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Hobby-horse time again!
If that totally dazzling glare were coming straight at me when I was pressing on in the car at night, I doubt I would be able to see to miss you.
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they dip down so not a dazzle glare ...
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You might just get away with it then 😉
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:) nice job, especially for little ££'s.
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I reckon there are two types of front light, those to with and those to be seen by.
As you already have a dipped headlight working any other daytime use lights are there to attract the attention of other road users. So a diffused lens with a different colour might be more effective in being seen.
You might not then bump into Brian.
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And believe me Ron, at the speed I drive, it wouldn't be a 'bump'.
And at 2 tons unladen weight, I wouldn't even notice the 'bump'.
Brian (who is totally invisible on the road and happy to be so; what they can't see they can't hit...😎 )
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SMIDSY ????
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i could put a pink coating on the lens that would be nice for the ladies who text and talk at the same time as driving :o
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I actually sat alongside a thirty-something bimbo at lights. She was only holding the wheel with her palms, fingers splayed. It took a while for the penny to drop, she was waiting for her obviously recently applied nail varnish to harden 🙄
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I personally find 'overlighting' of vehicles (for want of a better word) is annoying to the eye.
I can see you, and actually I'd like to see beyond you to the next hazard.
However, on a positive note they might be useful additions on a dark night.
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I wouldn't use them at night unless they were linked to the main beam, but i would make use of them during the day as DRL.
edit: There are some good light and switch deals on http://www.banggood.com
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I personally find 'overlighting' of vehicles (for want of a better word) is annoying to the eye.
I can see you, and actually I'd like to see beyond you to the next hazard.
However, on a positive note they might be useful additions on a dark night.
I agree and I think that the lights used by some cyclists are extremely dangerous. Way too bright with no beam cut off and blinding all the poor sods going the opposite way. The flashing types are especially distracting. Try travelling into town on many of the main routes with all the cyclists heading home.
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They look great, as for the price who can make a comment any comment.......
Make sure that you remove the humidity elastic safety now that bike is hibernating, it's the small strange looking bit behind main beam.
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Thank you Costas
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The trouble with lighting products is that they still use wattage (voltage supplied multiplied by current drawn; W = V x I) as a means of 'rating' the bulb. Accordingly, all vehicles are limited to bulb output being 55W for headlamps. This is a nonesense, since 55W is the electrical INPUT to the bulb, not a measure of light output.
Those of us who are aged enough to remember the days before Tungsten filament bulbs or Halogen gas atmospheres, when even sealed beam units and alternators were not commonplace, well remember trying to see as far as the next cat's eye with the extremely low light output available. Moonlit nights were a godsend! But the rating of the bulbs was still 55W, they were just VERY inefficient bulbs.
These days, with modern HID and particularly LED products, if you burned 55W you would be lighting the dark side of the moon.
An old Mini was coming toward me the other day, obviously on dipped beams in the overcast murk and as he approached, I could see behind him the glare from the swathe of daytime running lights adorning whatever was behind the glare.
These were totally dazzling and it wasn't even dark, buy hey, I bet the manufacturere can prove it wasn't using any more power than whatever the 'rating' is for DRL's.
My ten year old 'facelifted' car has what was an innovation in its day, HID main and dip in the original main beam housing and a sidelight bulb as DRL's in its original dip beam housing. No one ever accused me of dazzling them
These days DRL's are more an art form and have spawned an entirely new power race among manufacturers.
It is about time that all vehicle lighting products used on the road, including those for bikes and helmet mounted LED 'headlamps' to boot, were forced to have an effective cut off and be rated in Lumens (lm) which is the true rating for total light output, or candlepower, which is the effective, focussed light seen, for example, by an oncoming motorist.
Unless I'm very much mistaken.....
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The last time you were mistaken Brian, Lloyd George was just a boy ???
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There was, however, that one time when I was wrong; I thought I had made a mistake but I hadn't 😎