THE difinative answer to which lights should i get....

Like most of us I have constantly played with different bulbs for the headlight, both on my bikes and cars. Due to having various options available to me and the time to do it, when I first got my new 800 earlier last year I decided to see/prove to myself which type of bulb really was the better. Here are my findings, I hope they prove as useful to you. Each option shows the light facing a fence at 7m and then down my road which is about 200m long.


Normal H4 Halogen bulb on bike





Xenon H4 Bulb on bike



Osram NightBreaker Gold H7 on car




and finally.....

HID H4 on bike




As you can clearly see HID replacements by FAR exceed all conventional bulbs, I liked them soo much that I have now installed them in my car. At about £85 each they may seem expensive but the osrams are about £20 each and on a bike with the bulbs on constantly they last maybe 6 months, depending on the amount of time the bike is used. The Hids come with a 2yr guarantee so in theory should be cost effective as well! I have had them in my VL800 for just over 6 months now and they still going strong, I will update when they eventually die.

They certainly light things up a lot better! 

Thanks SIM much appreciated coming from you.
Just in case anyone wants to know where I got them hids4u.co.uk, nothing to do with the company but I do tend to research the shit out of things!! and for the H4 bike its only £53. I also opted for the 5000k as I wanted better light rather than showy "blue" but they also do 6000k and 8000k. Dead easy to install just plug and play NO cutting at all and the ballast is really small.

What a great experiment, that'll be so much use to others, both now and in the future.

so you can get the bulb that really lights things up (bottom pic) for £53?

Bulb, ballast and all connectors, took me a mech moron 5 minutes to fit, just checked their website and they are out of stock until the end of the month....shows it keenly priced and popular!

Flippin eck what a great thread 

VERY INFORMATIVE THREAD - Great stuff Justin - I will bear this in mind for future reference.

  Yam

Thanks Justin I'll keep that in mind good bit of kit that lights things up really well will be great for unlit roads/country roads once I get all the other stuff done to me bike I'll cry that I've spent all my money then save and get one of these bulbs

Justin - can you help with this please?  Looking round at HID units for mine at the moment - when I had a HID on the Katana, the ballast unit was quite large (about the size of a couple of fag packets back to back) what size is this one & where have you located it?

Cheers

I got mine at hids4u.co.uk and they do a really small slim ballast for bikes about the size of an I phone at a guess it Easily fitted in the light bucket and all the connectors are plug and go so no feckin about cutting and splicing and IF you should ever have a problem it takes seconds to unplug and insert original bulb. They do a simple slim version for 45 or canbus version for 53, I got the canbus because I wasn't sure at the time if our bikes monitored the light the way my car does, if you don't need canbus save a 10.
justin

Cheers Justin - thanks for that

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Don't encourage him Dave! He'll be offering to watch his 'Limited Edition' copy of Broke Back Mountain with you next 

Aaaahhhh - my favorite film  -   :happy036:

 It's 2015 after all   Carry on 

simbo wrote:

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Don't encourage him Dave! He'll be offering to watch his 'Limited Edition' copy of Broke Back Mountain with you next 

Don't worry I do have a broad back! and thick skin......I am saving this all up for when we cross that big bridge in france! :shithhappens:Please feel free to bring HD :piss:Sim I will be able to kill 2 birds with 1 stone......tickets/parachute anyone

Justin don't encourage him for gods sake! 

MOI!! I have NO idea what you mean peter

:piss:Sim
:piss:Harley
:piss:Davidson
 :piss:Iron (hoof) 

hawktheslayer wrote:

MOI!! I have NO idea what you mean peter

:piss:Sim
:piss:Harley
:piss:Davidson
 :piss:Iron (hoof) 

You seem a little tense? so much so that you forgot to put a space between the emoticon and word 

Hold on!! That explains a lot!


 SIM
 Harley
 Davidson
  Iron

Is that better or was you just teasing me!!!!!  

You doing selfies again Sim

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