Re: oilheads-digest V1 #175

["Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxx>]

Eckhard:

A couple things:

1. The Cycle Gadgets kit includes all the wiring and stuff that you 
need to do this without ripping up your bike.  I strongly suggest it if 
you're going to go that way.  These lights will be on your bike a long 
time and you don't want something that's going to cause reliability 
problems while you're out on the road.   I bought their kit and was 
very happy with the quality of all the components, including the 
lights.   

2. That said, I'd recommend mounting lights along side the front wheel 
rather than under the oil cooler.  The oil cooler mounting position 
looks great, but your front fender can hit the lights on hard braking 
or over a good sized bump.  This never hurt my lights, but put marks in 
my front fender on both sides.   There are a number of kits you can get 
that offer side mounted lights on the forks.  They offer the added 
advantage of aiming the beam into the corners at night.   This is a 
very nice advantage and you should consider it strongly.   The guys I 
know who have this system really like it.   No one has had negative 
effects from this mounting position.

I solved my lighting problem by getting myself an 1150RT last year.  
The integral fog lights really light up the road and I no longer see a 
need for auxilliary lighting.   You're 99, like mine, really needs 
something.  

Best,

- -TB

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:50:45 -0400
> From: "Eckhard Grohe" <egrohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: PIAA or not
> 
> Hello All,
> I am working on adding more lights to my 99 RT and would like to put 
them
> under the oil cooler just like Cycle gadgets. Has anybody tried other 
lights
> here or is it only PIAA 1100X??
> 
> Eckhard Grohe
> erohe@xxxxxxxxxx

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