headlight bulb blown

Replaced the headlight bulb on the K100 maybe two months ago. It's
blown again. This seems to be somewhat quick for a bulb to go.
Opinions?

Oh, and riding through the Bourgogne countryside on 'D' roads in pitch
blackness with just sidelights _is_ an experience not to be missed...

 

Why didn't you use main beam, ffs!

 

Something to do with blinding oncoming drivers, perchance?

 

**** them, I'd want to see where I was going.

 

I don't like to upset people.

 

*splutter*

 

the cont known as SteveH says...

He's Irish, what do you expect?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

Fit a driving lamp or two. Backup, see?

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Better than being blinded by an oncoming tree.

 

Sounds like a Supertramp song with vocals by Marc Bolan.

 

*Snigger*

 

But they're french, **** 'em.

 

fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Inside the fairing of your K is a three position headlight beam flip
lever thingy, it allows for quick beam adjustment

position:

1: you
2: you and a passenger
3: you, a passenger and luggage

If you flip it to position 3 when you're solo it'll lower the full beam
enough to emulate (ish) dip beam as a get you home without blinding
others.

--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

So... it's been established you don't know how to use the brakes on a bike.

It appears you're not too good with the headlight either.

How are you on working the indicators, or maybe the horn?

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

Essex Countryside on an MZ with all the electrics working perfectly.
Invigorating.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dr Ivan D. Reid

Or a blub fitted by a numpty who touched the glass envelope during the
fitting process.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

'wouldn't know. It wasn't me.

 

**** me. ..where is this magical thing??

 

Fitted the new one this morning. Christ, do BMW engineers have tiny
hands?? I spent an hour trying to get the fucker in and then the
'locking ring', or whatever you call it. Anyway, it's done.