Has anyone put auxiliary lights on their 1150RT, and if so, where did you mount them? Apart from bikes with Police crash bars, I can't think where lights could be mounted.
Where would you put auxiliary lights on an 1150RT?
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Why do you need auxiliary lights. The 1150RT has extra lights each side of the headlight ..
I thought the 'side lights' were Fog Lights Neil?
I have the 3 lights (main & 2 aux) on my other 2 bikes. It's a safety issue and makes me feel better when riding. I feel 4 wheelers can see you with the triangle of lights rather than a single one. Something to do with depth perception.
on the mirror pods.
As someone whose ridden most of his riding career with just standard headlights I never even thought of aux lights on my 1150rt... And my experience of meeting them is they are much the same as fog lights as its a diffuse light source ... Just shows how fashions have changed...
Thanks Fink. Nice.
I don't suppose you have a close-up image and/or where you sourced the lights from?
My only concern with aux lights is mounting them too close to indicators, but my preference would be to have them rather than not.
Fair point, but my decisions have never been influenced by fashion, just simply safety or self-preservation
Fair point too... The whole DLR thing is different from crap headlights at night I suppose... I bought an XTZ12 that was like starship enterprise and I thought they were added as the headlights were so shite but it was probably the adventure bike DLR thing instead... It's night lighting was still shite however...Fair point, but my decisions have never been influenced by fashion, just simply safety or self-preservation
I have aux lights on my GS as I commute and there’s dozy twats, so a bit of extra light won’t hurt.
But back in my university days I had a Honda CB250 G5 with a Rickman fairing, and a pair of driving lights mounted above the headlight - the triangle you mention.
Horrid weather, pissing down, less than half a mile from my destination, I’m doing fifty-sixty on the main road in a national, and a guy in a Transit stops at the white line. With the high beam and the two lights Im so close that I can see him look at me, and he just pulled out anyway. Fortunately there was nothing coming the other way and I swerved around him. I still don’t know how I got away with that.
But back in my university days I had a Honda CB250 G5 with a Rickman fairing, and a pair of driving lights mounted above the headlight - the triangle you mention.
Horrid weather, pissing down, less than half a mile from my destination, I’m doing fifty-sixty on the main road in a national, and a guy in a Transit stops at the white line. With the high beam and the two lights Im so close that I can see him look at me, and he just pulled out anyway. Fortunately there was nothing coming the other way and I swerved around him. I still don’t know how I got away with that.
