Too many unlight country lanes here on the far side so I need some extra illumination up front
Saw this …
… on ebay is it what I want?
Can anybody translate the description? ebay link here
Any other recommendations to light up the road that’ll not break the bank welcome
Love the fact it makes your Bike more Fuel efficient at night!! lol
anti corruption? that’s the the best sort of light
this is what you need no escort from the 80s would be seen without them
Always wanted a set of smiley face spot lamps.
what Wise doesn’t know about escorts in the 80’s isn’t worth knowing 
ill have you know I never owned an Escort (RWD) in the 80’s
i did have a 1985 diesel estate FWD but we wont go there
HID coversion? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOTOR-BIKE-MOTORCYCLE-XENON-HID-KIT-35W-H1-H3-H7-HB3-HB4-H4-4300K-6000K-8000K-/261741975534?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item3cf10997ee
or http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35W-HID-Bi-xenon-Motor-Motorcycle-Bike-Conversion-Slim-Kit-H4-Hi-Lo-4300K-12000K-/291300697590?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&var=&hash=item43d2dfe5f6
Thanks Ricky
I’ve ordered the 4,300k H7 conversion kit off ebay, looks a little too cheap at <£10.00 :ermm:
Worth a punt
Most extra lights have pretty crap reflectors, so cast a weird and not particularly useful beam regardless of how powerful a bulb you put in. What bike is this for? Upgrading the built-in headlight may be your best bet; what’s wrong with the current light? Is it not reaching far enough, not wide enough a beam, not long enough a beam, just too dim?
A blue flashing beacon will see me riding in a hi-viz cloak of conformity but I’ll still not be able to see where I’m going :w00t:
Its a 2006 Honda CBF 1000
The main beam headlamp, a 55w H7 Halogen bulb with projector lens is fine. The separate dipped beam headlamp, same 55w h7 Halogen bulb but with a diffusing lens, is just too dim. Probably too diffused, and if its picked up a light coating of A12 road spray its virtually useless.
Riding home last night visibility was virtually zero with the dipped beam, even after wiping the road spray off it didn’t get too much better.
The Bonne’ with its single headlamp was never like this, I was expecting more from twin headlamps not less.
Disappointed on the far side, hopefully the cheap as chips HID conversion of the dipped beam headlamp will solve the issue.
what colour is your bike I got passed by one this morning & it went off onto the M25
Silver grey, just checked its still in the stables
that’s ok it was a white and red one
getting a fair lick on in the contraflow
It’s probably not too tricky to get H4s into that housing. As long as the reflectors aren’t too mental I’d try an H4 on the non-diffused side (as well as the H7) in dipped-beam mode and see if that helps at all.
The main beams fine, its the diffused dipped beam that’s poor.
Ordered the HID conversation now so I’ll see how that works out.
Let me know Art, I’ve got an 08 CBF1000 and would like to know how it goes. I fitted a HID City kit to my previous Ducati Multistrada, which interfered badly with the immobiliser. It was more likely to be the fault of the bike but I still had to bin it.
There are reviews of the CREE lights on www.webbikeworld.com
Same here, the XJ6 lights were excellent on dipped so maybe I was spoilt - watching with interest
The fitting was a proper pain because I had to remove the right & left front cowls, right & left inner panels, wing mirrors, windscreen, meter panel and the front centre cowl just to get at the existing H7 bulb and headlamp wiring harness :w00t:
The supplied HID wiring harness and the Honda headlamp wiring harness required a quick modification to connect the two, cutting off the supplied plug and crimping on some 6.4 mm male spade terminals got the two connected.
Siting the slim line ballast, starter and wiring loom took three attempts, the problem was positioning it just so that it wouldn’t foul the fork stanchions and that the headlamp centre cowl would swivel into place. Tricky but sorted, I’m just wondering if I could have mounted the ballast onto the lower brace for the front headlamp centre cowl or, does the ballast get hot enough to melt the plastic :ermm:
Refitting the cowls, panels etc was a proper pain because none of them lined up, wondering if they are in fact proper Honda parts :ermm:
Initial testing
On start up the standard H7 headlamp bulb dims when the starter motor runs (normal). The HID bulb does the same thing, it dims when the starter motor runs then brightens again. Subsequent testing revealed that if the static battery voltage dropped below about 12.4v the ballast would detect the dimming as a fault and shut down, requiring a 3-5 minutes rest to re-set itself. So a future mod will include a headlamp on/off switch or, an on/off/on switch and daytime running lights.
Can I now see where I’m going?
Proper road test this Sunday.
