I decided to brighten up my ride and add some off road lights to my bike for significantly less than the other HID lights I've seen online. I found this LED flood light system and thought it would be helpful for casting a broad and very bright light in the near to mid range space. I was looking to help see objects in the road and spot potential hazards with enough time to respond when traffic conditions allowed me to use brighter lights.
On install I found them to be too bright as running lights. They weren't lying when they said "off road use only". I thought about wiring them to come on with my bright lights (very possible) or using a resistor to run them at a lower power as running lights to dim them a bit (didn't work at 6v). In the end I decided I wanted maximum flexibility and that meant a switch that would turn them on when I wanted them on as long as the ignition was on. I didn't have easy access to a switch on my bars so I mounted a switch from Auto Zone.
I mounted the light directly to my crash bar without an additional light bar. I drilled holes through the bar and simply slid the mounting screws through with a little Loctite. I then ran wired in a luminated switch with a longer arm to make it easy to hit when riding in the dark. I finished the install by running the wiring though my fuse panel where all my accessory wiring now connects.
Total install time is about 1-2 hours. Total cost about $75 with shipping from Amazon.
Video at night: http://youtu.be/-eZAyfZFX8E
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HUH0EO/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
On install I found them to be too bright as running lights. They weren't lying when they said "off road use only". I thought about wiring them to come on with my bright lights (very possible) or using a resistor to run them at a lower power as running lights to dim them a bit (didn't work at 6v). In the end I decided I wanted maximum flexibility and that meant a switch that would turn them on when I wanted them on as long as the ignition was on. I didn't have easy access to a switch on my bars so I mounted a switch from Auto Zone.
I mounted the light directly to my crash bar without an additional light bar. I drilled holes through the bar and simply slid the mounting screws through with a little Loctite. I then ran wired in a luminated switch with a longer arm to make it easy to hit when riding in the dark. I finished the install by running the wiring though my fuse panel where all my accessory wiring now connects.
Total install time is about 1-2 hours. Total cost about $75 with shipping from Amazon.
Video at night: http://youtu.be/-eZAyfZFX8E
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HUH0EO/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
