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spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - JKay - 03-02-16
Bikes always seem to need better lights ,any pix of fazer thou with extra lights and how and where did you fit them ?
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 03-02-16
I fitted these, got them off ebay for £20, Chinese copies of the Cree ones. Wired them through a switch from a live feed.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - PaulSmith - 03-02-16
I fitted HIDs. Best safety improvement I have ever made to any bike.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - b1k3rdude - 03-02-16
Nice, got some shots of the munting brackets and the lights themselfs..?
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 03-02-16
(03-02-16, 02:58 PM)b1k3rdude link Wrote: Nice, got some shots of the munting brackets and the lights themselfs..?
I will take some photos of brackets and lights tomorrow.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - JKay - 03-02-16
Look great slappy and on the fast black un too :lol
Look forward to seeing how and where exactly you mounted them
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 04-02-16
(03-02-16, 10:27 PM)JKay link Wrote: Look great slappy and on the fast black un too
Its actualy red and black
I have taken some photos that show how I mounted them, hardest part is finding somewhere to mount them. Mine are mounted on the side of the radiator and feel pretty stable, I had to buy some longer stainless bolts and make spacers out of some scrap stainless pipe that I had lying around.
These are really just to make you more visible, if you want to get a better light for you to see better then HID might be the way to go.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - JKay - 04-02-16
Thanks slappy
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - Fazerider - 04-02-16
Can't be bothered to look up the Construction and Use regs to find out what the minimum allowable spacing is, but I think you might have those a bit too near the indicators to be legal.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 05-02-16
(04-02-16, 10:20 PM)Fazerider link Wrote: Can't be bothered to look up the Construction and Use regs to find out what the minimum allowable spacing is, but I think you might have those a bit too near the indicators to be legal.
Well I will find out tomorrow, taking it for the mot
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - Fazerider - 05-02-16
(05-02-16, 05:58 PM)slappy link Wrote: [quote author=Fazerider link=topic=19293.msg223440#msg223440 date=1454620840]
Can't be bothered to look up the Construction and Use regs to find out what the minimum allowable spacing is, but I think you might have those a bit too near the indicators to be legal.
Well I will find out tomorrow, taking it for the mot
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Found it today:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/made
For dipped lights, only 100mm separation (oddly, no spec for the direction so you could have the light right behind the indicator as seen from some angles).
Presumably your spots are wired to the high beam, so there shouldn't be a problem anyway.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 06-02-16
(05-02-16, 05:58 PM)slappy link Wrote: [quote author=Fazerider link=topic=19293.msg223440#msg223440 date=1454620840]
Can't be bothered to look up the Construction and Use regs to find out what the minimum allowable spacing is, but I think you might have those a bit too near the indicators to be legal.
Well I will find out tomorrow, taking it for the mot
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Well I didn't find out today, been pissing down all day and I don't do rain,so recheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Re: spotlights, driving lights who's fitted them - slappy - 10-02-16
Passed mot ok, tester never mentioned the lights.