You know...I need to go the opposite way.
I don't ride at night if I can help it. So I don't need dazzling headlights...city streets here are well lit; in the surrounding countryside, I'm likely to hit a deer after dark. Or a bear.
But traffic is gawd-awful. It's a town grown twice the size that would be comfortable; the main arteries are plugged from noon to six every day.
Traffic lights are unreal. It's not unusual to be stopped eight minutes at any of four major intersections.
I have to shut the engine off, lest it overheat.
I don't LIKE to turn the key off; it makes turn signals go dead; headlight out. But I don't like having a 50-watt headlight burning off that little battery with no charging. And I don't know how robust is the stator and how much of this I can get away with.
What I did was, get an un-DOT-approved LED insert bulb and pop it in the headlight assembly. Four watts.
As a running light, it's fine. Maybe too bright...oddly, the hi/low beam doesn't work. Same rows on both. That's trying it on two different applications, a car and a bike.
At night...it's miserable as a headlight. And it does blind oncoming traffic. But...I'm not out at night. And I can change the bulb if I think I might be.
But I can kill the engine at these long lights; leave the key on, have my turn signals...and no worries about the battery.
WIN.
