OK. Last night I was riding home on the M62 from seeing my daughter in Leeds. I'd caught my hazard flasher when switching on my "high" beam. I moved over onto the hard shoulder to switch them off but managed to do it as I was slowing (doing ~40). Just about to accelerate and re-join the carriageway when I saw something in the road which looked at first like a cloth (it was dark). Thinking nothing of it I ran over it. The cloth was in fact a brick which I only saw at the very last second, too late to avoid. And yes I know you shouldn't run over something if you don't know what it is.
Had I still been able to legally have my HIDs I would have noticed this a lot sooner and taken avoiding action. I've tried to supplement the poor lighting on my 9'er with so called "spot lights" but nothing offering more than about 10-15 foot of light in front.
Sorry rant over.
I've had yet another look and the nearest thing I can find is about £60 each plus bulbs plus mounting kit, either that or the flood light type of thing (sold as "spot" I already have fitted) or the crappy things with tiny halogen bulbs. Now I know you can't put a price on safety (although whoever dreamt up banning HIDs on bikes clearly did) but has anyone come across anything that does give a good forward view in the dark that I can fit and that isn't illegal for a bike to use.
I've looked online at ebay (pages and pages of the usual Chinese/indian/etc tat), Amazon (mostly same as ebay) Halfords, demontweeks, and it's either ring (which i was warned off ages ago or the huge expensive car stuff (Cibie, IPF, hella, etc.). I saw some some "maybe" on biker mart, bikebytz, motea but I've no experience of them and I'm fed up of paying for stuff that ends up in a drawer. As well, a lot of chinese/indian/etc. stuff is re-badged in the UK and priced at 3- 4 times as much. I read reports of the cyclops lights but they were very varied for >£200 sounds too risky. for another flop.
Has anyone any positive experience of anything? What have you got?
My dip and hi beam are Osram night breakers - which I think are are streets ahead of standard H7s.
Thanks
OK, scratch this for now. I've bought a pair of Hella oblong lights. The bike's gonna look like a christmas tree with all the lights in it.
Edited by TKH, 21 February 2019 - 09:09 pm.