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Actually going to use an HID kit with a good dip and a crap main beam and parallel them up with mainbeam. I'll focus one on the road about 100m ahead towards the verge and another on the road about 150m ahead at drivers eye level... **** 'em. I seem to remember you mounted yours on the fairing, I'm thinking crashbars; comments?
Goretex is a membrane that lets water out as sweat but not in, it shouldn't come into contact with the road, that's what Cordura's for. Cordura is the bit that isn't that waterproof but I think it's treated. In fairly torrential downpours last week I stayed dry. Me too. Bottom half I'd not wear trousers underneath though; betty swallocks and all that. Well, if it works for you, good. In any case I only wear leather on sports bikes these days (excluding trousers which I reserve leather for the summer, cordura for other times). Heh... as if!
Well the higher the better from a road terrain POV but I've had some mounted on Boxer crashbars and they were still good. So the variable focus HID were a bit questionable then? The 2 x Cibies on the B12 are now good enough that I could never complain. In reply to Loz, I think they get used on Mini's with a headlight style conversion. I'll take a pic and post it up for you.
It depends on what you want. If you want a fantastic dip and a fantastic main beam from a visibility point of view they were great. If you wanted to have lights when you switched from full to dip reliably and not end up with nothing apart from the pilot light one time in three they weren't so good. The only way around it was to switch the ignition off for a second or two...
A dodgy control unit then? or the mechanical focus/high-low mechanism? TBH these twin Cibies make HID fairly redundant. It would have to be cheap and easy to make me upgrade again for the small gains. I see these kits on eBay. Any observations? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Xenon-HID-Con...235QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item200038219278
Control unit I think. Well, the H4 bulbs either have a Halogen main beam (which is shit) or don't have a main beam...
Umm I'm looking at www.xenonvalot.com/newh4bixenon.html for explanation of all this. Pretty heath robinson!
http://www.hids4u.co.uk/product_details.asp?id=44 I'm thinking of putting these on the new Fester. Get very good reviews and seem to be good quality. Obviously bit of a price difference to the stuff you're looking at.
I was reading that last night. Expensive yes but a proper system. The deeper bulbs won't suit all bikes. One could have one side dip (always on) and the other full beam as per current new bikes. One could also keep the system when the bike is moved on. Fazer headlights are particularly shite so I could see the point.
My post wasn't that clear, I'm not putting them on a bike, I'm putting them on the new cage... http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/fiesta/fie_0508_models/fie_0508_body_st/-/-/-/867819 The lights aren't exactly pants, but they could be better. Given I'm going to be a confirmed summer biker for the foreseeable future I'll not be too interested in upgrading bike lights.
