As promised last night about people curious about the bixenon headlights. Last year I came into contact with Ogre and his unique headlight retrofit for our Busas. There is plenty of information from him on other threads. I just want to say that there is not a more powerful light out there that is street legal. He designed and built my system. Since I am in critter country and ride rural roads at night time it was critical for me to be able to see down the road a fair distance to avoid collision with deer, pigs, racoons, possums, skunks..and domestic animals.
This light is a bixenon dual 55 watt uber-commercial grade light. As far as I know I am the only person on the planet with this much photon power. Guys...I thought the HID upgrade that I was running was a godsend after the ridiculous candlepower of the OEM. How a manufacturer can get away with their orginal lighting is near criminal mischief. Your HID's are shizzle compared to this lighting. I can tell you from running my HID high beam and running the bixenon 110 watt military grade laser cutters that it is the same difference between OEM vs HID as it is between the HID vs Bixenon...they are completely from different planets in light. Moths are vaporized at 20 yards...okay...that was the other voice in my head..sorry!
As Matthew (Ogre) denoted in several posts..the light scattering in an HID with orginal OEM housing causes serious light scatter and blinds oncoming traffic...not exactly in your best interest in multiple ways like them flashing their hi-beams at inappropriate times or you blind them and they come across the line after you...with the bixenon dual 55 watts you get focused power, clean and crisp, and several hundred yards down the road...and it has the flat horizontal top line that doesn't interfere with oncoming driver's night vision. I never get flashed from oncoming anymore.
Here are a bunch of pictures what Ogre's setup looks like. The hardware is all industrial grade. You can see how I installed it by attaching the large ballasts to the sides of the intake tubes. Because they are heavy enough to be of some concern I velcroed and tied them. They have been on the bike for over 12 months now and 9K miles later and not a single issue. I ride fairly aggressively and lots of mountain roads with bumpies...no problems.
One of these days I will try and get some night photos but I can do 80mph and I am not outrunning my lights. I have seen animals in plenty of time down the road..I would say max distance where I can pick up movement is 200 yards...at 150 yards it is very clear their is something to slow or evade...plenty of time to slow her down and prepare for next step.
Per promise here are the pictures.
This light is a bixenon dual 55 watt uber-commercial grade light. As far as I know I am the only person on the planet with this much photon power. Guys...I thought the HID upgrade that I was running was a godsend after the ridiculous candlepower of the OEM. How a manufacturer can get away with their orginal lighting is near criminal mischief. Your HID's are shizzle compared to this lighting. I can tell you from running my HID high beam and running the bixenon 110 watt military grade laser cutters that it is the same difference between OEM vs HID as it is between the HID vs Bixenon...they are completely from different planets in light. Moths are vaporized at 20 yards...okay...that was the other voice in my head..sorry!
As Matthew (Ogre) denoted in several posts..the light scattering in an HID with orginal OEM housing causes serious light scatter and blinds oncoming traffic...not exactly in your best interest in multiple ways like them flashing their hi-beams at inappropriate times or you blind them and they come across the line after you...with the bixenon dual 55 watts you get focused power, clean and crisp, and several hundred yards down the road...and it has the flat horizontal top line that doesn't interfere with oncoming driver's night vision. I never get flashed from oncoming anymore.
Here are a bunch of pictures what Ogre's setup looks like. The hardware is all industrial grade. You can see how I installed it by attaching the large ballasts to the sides of the intake tubes. Because they are heavy enough to be of some concern I velcroed and tied them. They have been on the bike for over 12 months now and 9K miles later and not a single issue. I ride fairly aggressively and lots of mountain roads with bumpies...no problems.
One of these days I will try and get some night photos but I can do 80mph and I am not outrunning my lights. I have seen animals in plenty of time down the road..I would say max distance where I can pick up movement is 200 yards...at 150 yards it is very clear their is something to slow or evade...plenty of time to slow her down and prepare for next step.
Per promise here are the pictures.
