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If someone is tooling around and wants to be seen coming home from work, get ‘anything’ you want.

If someone might be out crossing Moab Utah off road at midnight, looking for a camp site I HIGHLY suggest
Baja Designes. I’ve used them for almost 20 years and only have good things to say. 5+ stars in my book. Absolutely amazing !
I’ve been off road out in the sticks in West Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, BDR’s, etc. I’ve been the one looking for a camp site late at night way off the beaten path. These lights have turned the pitch black desert into daylight.

For reference, I run two squadron pro’s up front. And a set of the S2 on my bars. I run them on separate relays and the lights are all stand alone. If I have a crash or damage any light, it won’t effect any of the others. This is for safety out in the desert. All very redundant and separated.

For the folks going out and riding places like I do, or out on any of the BDR's. Please buy the most light you can afford. It might save your life one day. Please take it from me.


This chart has some great info on it. It's a good comparison resource.View attachment 60917
What beam pattern are your S2's? I've seen them before in another thread and want to do the same thing, I'm thinking wide cornering to light the side of the trails since I have D4's mounted forward under the nose.
 

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What beam pattern are your S2's? I've seen them before in another thread and want to do the same thing, I'm thinking wide cornering to light the side of the trails since I have D4's mounted forward under the nose.
I believe my S2 and squadrons are flood & spot combo. Love them!!
 

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Not going to recommend anything because it sounds like you did a lot of homework and made a decision. Sounds like the shop, not the product at fault. Bet somebody else sells those.
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Awesome thank you, do you have a pic of the S2's at night? How much does the side light really improve your ride?
When I just read your comment above, I smiled and chuckled. These “little” lights put out a ton of light. That’s a very ambiguous definition, but it’s A LOT.
I typically have these aimed out in front of me and fill it a bit of side light, and just below the drop off of the squadrons. I like them on my bars because I have a ‘ton of light’ when I turn the bars.
I run the S2, all the time while I’m riding my bike, day & night. I run the squadrons out on the lonely high ways out in the middle of the country, off road, etc. I have them aimed ‘up’ for light while out in the desert so I don’t ride off a cliff and to see bob wire across the road. The way I have my squadrons set up they are way to bright for normal highway use in normal city traffic.
Anyone could set the lights up a little lower and run them in town anytime they want. There are 50+ ways to set them up.
I do t have any photos but I’m sure I can take a few pictures. Pictures won’t justify the brightness.
I’ve set up a few bikes where they might have two squadrons up front, one aimed a little higher and this one light is wired into the high beam switch. The other is aimed a bit lower on a stand alone toggle switch that could be used in town.
That’s another useful set up and works very well.

Here are a few photos of my light switch set up. Run on relays.

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When I just read your comment above, I smiled and chuckled. These “little” lights put out a ton of light. That’s a very ambiguous definition, but it’s A LOT.
I typically have these aimed out in front of me and fill it a bit of side light, and just bellow the drop off of the squadrons. I like them on my bars because I have a ‘ton of light’ when I turn the bars.
I run the S2, all the time while I’m riding my bike, day & night. I run the squadrons out on the lonely high ways out in the middle of the country, off road, etc. I have them aimed ‘up’ for light while out in the desert so I don’t ride off a cliff and to see bob wire across the road. The way I have my squadrons set up they are way to bright for normal highway use in normal city traffic.
Anyone could set the lights up a little lower and run them in town anytime they want. There are 50+ ways to set them up.
I do t have any photos but I’m sure I can take a few pictures. Pictures won’t justify the brightness.
I’ve set up a few bikes where they might have two squadrons up front, one aimed a little higher and this one light is wired into the high beam switch. The other is aimed a bit lower on a stand alone toggle switch that could be used in town.
That’s another useful set up and works very well.
LOL I can imagine just hoped for a visual, I run a pair of Denali D4 2.0's in front 50/100 with high and low beam those alone provide more than enough front light. Just wanted the S2's on the bars to light up the sides when I'm farting around national forest at 10pm looking for a camp area off the side, which happens alot more than I'd like to admit. I have the stock denali switch on my dash since I never turn them off and a 2nd denali switch on order to mount to the bars for the S2's which I'm about to order as soon as I figure out what beam pattern I want for my application. Spot/flood sounds good and so does wide cornering.
 

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LOL I can imagine just hoped for a visual, I run a pair of Denali D4 2.0's in front 50/100 with high and low beam those alone provide more than enough front light. Just wanted the S2's on the bars to light up the sides when I'm farting around national forest at 10pm looking for a camp area off the side, which happens alot more than I'd like to admit. I have the stock denali switch on my dash since I never turn them off and a 2nd denali switch on order to mount to the bars for the S2's which I'm about to order as soon as I figure out what beam pattern I want for my application. Spot/flood sounds good and so does wide cornering.


There was one time I was heading back from Colorado and we came across the north side of New Mexico at about 2am. It was was like in a cave dark, it was BLACK outside. We stopped and I just pulled my S2’s more out to the side. We had been seeing eye shine from deer and other animals. I virtually had 180* of forward light in front of me. In that circumstance they might have really saved me from whacking an animal at 2am. We were so far out in the boon docks that if we got hurt it might have been many hours before anyone might have come by and probably several hours to a hospital.
I can tell folks many stories like this. The lights have been invaluable to me the whole time of ownership.
Depending on your set up, you can run them forward, off to the side or any combo you want. You can move them while on your ride. In my case I only needed my 8mm wrench. No big deal !

I just posted a few switch pictures above.
 
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There was one time I was heading back from Colorado and we came across New Mexico at about 2am. It was was like in a cave dark, it was BLACK outside. We stopped and I just pulled my S2’s more out to the side. We had been seeing eye shine from deer and other animals. I virtually had 180* of forward light in front of me. In that circumstance they might have really saved me from whacking an animal at 2am. We were so far out in the boon docks that if we got hurt it might have been many hours before anyone might have come by and probably several hours to a hospital.
I can tell folks many stories like this. The lights have been invaluable to me the whole time of ownership.
Depending on your set up, you can run them forward, off to the side or any combo you want. You can move them while on your ride. In my case I only needed my 8mm wrench. No big deal !

I just posted a few switch pictures above.
Awesome yah that's the kind of situation I find myself in alot lol, that or riding through the woods and wondering if there's a massive drop off or just more woods. I have velcro on my helmet to stick a black diamond headlamp too just for that. Had more than a couple concerns on backroads late at night and some highway with eye shine from critters where a little more side light/awareness would have been appreciated. I plan on leaving mine at about a 45 degree angle or whatever feels good. I'm solid on forward light, the D4's on high look like an airplane coming in for landing.

Thanks for the switch pictures and all the detailed responses, that's pretty brilliant the switch on the mirror mount I'm guessing that's self fabricated. I agree with you on lighting being invaluable. I put the D4's off for a long time because they're so expensive finally bit the bullet and I'm convinced good lighting on an ADV bike is more important than 80% of the other crap we put on our bikes.
 

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Awesome yah that's the kind of situation I find myself in alot lol, that or riding through the woods and wondering if there's a massive drop off or just more woods. I have velcro on my helmet to stick a black diamond headlamp too just for that. Had more than a couple concerns on backroads late at night and some highway with eye shine from critters where a little more side light/awareness would have been appreciated. I plan on leaving mine at about a 45 degree angle or whatever feels good. I'm solid on forward light, the D4's on high look like an airplane coming in for landing.

Thanks for the switch pictures and all the detailed responses, that's pretty brilliant the switch on the mirror mount I'm guessing that's self fabricated. I agree with you on lighting being invaluable. I put the D4's off for a long time because they're so expensive finally bit the bullet and I'm convinced good lighting on an ADV bike is more important than 80% of the other crap we put on our bikes.

The last sentence you stated is SO true. I’ve seen people almost die, because they ‘didn’t see it’ in the dark.

Yes, I made the switch housing.

A friend and I had been riding the AZBDR in AZ . I think we were up in the Cononino National Forest, and once again it was super dark and riding dirt roads out in the middle of no where. All these lights defiantly helped see and not to drop off the side of the mountain. There are no signs, there are no guard rails, there is no safety anything. So once again, we had ‘ample’ light for the task at hand.

15,000 lumens tend to do the trick + HID Headlight`s. LOL

We always have a good time.
 
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The last sentence you stated is SO true. I’ve seen people almost die, because they ‘didn’t see it’ in the dark.

Yes, I made the switch housing.

A friend and I had been riding the AZBDR in AZ . I think we were up in the Cononino National Forest, and once again it was super dark and riding dirt roads out in the middle of no where. All these lights defiantly helped see and not to drop off the side of the mountain. There are no signs, there are no guard rails, there is no safety anything. So once again, we had ‘ample’ light for the task at hand.

15,000 lumens tend to do the trick + HID Headlight`s. LOL

We always have a good time.
Well I did it, I took your lead and added the Baja S2's in wide cornering to my bars.

Holy hell it's a whole new ballgame with these babies on there I don't know why more people don't do it. I now have almost 180 degrees of lighting, really gonna make night rides in the woods a whole lot better.

Not sold on the amber might switch to white but I'm for sure sold on the lights. Now I'll see those side shoots, drop offs, and campsites at 10pm.
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Looks great. If you run into money issues I will happily help out by buying all your worldcrosser bits off you :D;)
 

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I can’t make out how the outside ones are mounted? Are they Altrider bars?
no the outside ones are visionx and are monuted on a denali light bar they are £100 each and the denali light bar was about £45 the denali light bar mounts under the headlight that has a 3-4 inch piece that sticks out each side to mount any lights onto you want

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