The problem with all of these super bright lights is that nobody can see where they are going at night.  Have you noticed that you can no longer see beyond the headlights of most oncoming cars until you pass them?  

But people want bright lights, the pay extra for it.  It sells.  Unforntualy you only benefit when you are the only person on the road with the bright lights. Bunch of idiots driving around like deer in the headlight.  Too much of a good thing...

MMRanch wrote on 06/26/19 at 16:38:51:

Thanks alot for posting that! Those look pretty impressive. I think I'll give them a try.

Funny how life likes to make you eat your words. Today while riding the Duck 90 mph down an exit lane on 495 a car doing no more than 50 in the not exit lane decided at the last second they wanted to get off. And over they came right in front of me. I had one of those thank God for ABS moments. As big and loud and bright as that bike is its no match for sheer utter stupidity.

Anyway yeah I'm convinced Thumpy could use brighter lights. Thanks for the info all.

You need to pick your spots to speed very carefully.......things can go very wrong, very quickly if you speed around other traffic.  It is so easy to go too fast on a bike with HP.....it is not so easy to get them under control when things to wrong.

One of the things I do to learn how to avoid being in an accident, is to watch the "Asian Scooter Crashes" or "Russian Driving" videos on YouTube.  The majority of the crashes occur when there is a noticeable speed difference between vehicles.  The vehicle moving significantly faster than the others usually gets in the crash because the other driver sees the normal traffic and makes a judgement based on those vehicles, and they don't anticipate the fast vehicle coming.  When they start their left of right turn or lane change......suddenly there is another vehicle that "came out of nowhere".  However - there are always folks just making stoopid moves without any good reason and the slower riders often have time to react - while the speeder does not have time and crashes.

Here is one example, get some popcorn and a cool one - and watch the carnage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgjsDl_iMo

I'm under the impression we have about "100 watt" alt.

55/60 watts headlight
24 watt running ... tail/front lights  (3 * 8 watts)

so how many watts does our alternator put out ?

Real men don't need no battery  

I ordered the LEDs.
And these
https://www.ebay.com/p/Kuryakyn-2467-Orbit-Prism-4-1-2in-LED-Passing-Lamps-wi...

And a pair of these to stuff the passing lamps into.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle-4-5-quot-Clear-Lens-Headlight-Bottom-Moun...

Then I'll have to fab up some mounting contraption like I did for my headlight.

The headlight I have projects light in a narrow box and even a bright LED won't fix that. I'll just have a brighter box but still can't see the side or other lanes of the road. So the passing lamps will help by putting out some light beyond the box. And I can sync the ghetto color rings to my Punk rock while riding.  

And if my battery starts dying I'll build the above PWM switch to alternate current between the headlight and passing lamps.  And by changing the duty cycle of the modulation I can fade between the lights too.

I'm not sure that mult. colored light would be legal in all 50 States ?    better check it out before any fines are payed than after any fines are payed !  

Installed the LED in the headlight tonight and yeah this thing is a hell of alot brighter. Big difference, like night and not night.

Like I suspected I still have that constrained box of light just brighter. The rest of the lighting gear will trickle in soon. I'm already working out a mount for it. Need to go talk to the sheet metal shop. Bounce ideas off them.