Has anyone here had any experience with this company? The various light kits they offer look fantastic but the price 😮. Thinking of outfitting my RoadGlide and my Pan America for brighter night riding.
https://denalielectronics.com/

 

I have a set of their D3 fog lights on my Road Glide ST with their top of the line controller (dims and can control another set of Denali lights). The products are high quality and are just as good as the Clearwater Darla lights I had on my Street Glide Special. Here are some pictures...

 

Denali is well-known in Euro bike circles (BMW, KTM). Great products, from what I've heard, but I don't have any personal experience with them.

 

The best there is. You will be very happy.

 

I went a bit nuts over Black Friday and Christmas, and got a full rig: two D4s, two D3s, and a CanSmart controller.

I am deliriously happy with the lights. On 30% brightness the D4s light up around the bike like a car's headlights do, with a huge wide spread and great brightness. At 100%, the D3s and D4s together throw enough light to read a newspaper from 10 football fields away.

I have the D4s using the spot & flood lens, the top two lights are spotlights that project far down the road, the bottom two have a floodlight lens so they spread wide. It fills in everything from the ground below the bike to well off the sides of the street. Let me put it this way: on my prior bike I had a JW Speaker adaptive headlight, it cost me $600 or so, and as the bike leaned it would progressively light up more and more of the side of the road. Neat technology, and I really liked it. But now it seems stupid, when a pair of D4s are lighting up more than the adaptive headlight ever would, and they don't have to lean to do it, and they cost less. I don't miss the adaptive headlight one bit on this new bike, after installing the D4s. One pair of D4s is probably all anyone would ever need. I put some Lamin-X Yellow film over the floodlight section, so they work as conspicuity and foglights too. They're mounted low on my crash bar.




But I added a set of D3 spotlights also, up high (next to the headlight). These D3s are for distance, and they're great at that job. Denali's specs say a pair will light up 1 lux to 1910 feet away, and I would believe it. Depending on what you're lighting up, they'll do a lot more than that. I've noticed reflective street signs are visible well over 3/4 of a mile away. I ride a lot in out of the way places, long distance riding etc, and I've seen enough random stuff on the road (tires, tire husks, bricks, 2x4s, rocks, sofas, carcasses, you name it) and that stuff doesn't just magically disappear at night, it's all still there, and I want to know about it long before I hit it, so I really like having the D3 spotlights. I keep 'em at 10% brightness when on low beam, as they'll blind any oncoming traffic at any much more than that. But when there's no other traffic around, I put on the high beams and the D3s come on at 100%, and the darkness becomes my bitch.


The CanSmart controller has a great array of features, stuff like strobing the lights when you honk the horn, setting different brightness levels for low & high beam (I have the D4s at 20 to 30% brightness on low beam, and 100% on high beam), different brightness levels for day and night operation, turning off the light when your turn signal is active, and on and on. It can control lights, horns, and other accessories, provide switched power, delayed power shutoff, it can flash your brakelight, it can detect engine braking and light up your brakelight during engine braking, all sorts of stuff. It also includes full plug-and-play wiring harnesses for two sets of lights, a SoundBomb horn (or any accessory horn), and a brakelight. It is a brilliant bit of gear, but I'm having some issues with mine that I'm working through tech support with, so that's why I haven't posted a full review of the Denali system yet.

If I were to compare the Denalis to the stock Fat Bob LED headlight, I'd say the Denalis are like a fire hose, whereas the stock headlight is more like pissing into the wind.

The price is high, yes. But the quality is exquisite, the performance is outstanding, and the difference it makes is dramatic. "Once you've had Denali, all alternatives are folly", or something like that. If you ride a lot at night, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them. If you don't ride much at night, then it's an extravagant expense and you'll have to justify that. As for lowering that price, well, I bought the first set on Black Friday and the second during Cyber Week, and there were some 10% off sales at Revzilla and some other places; on top of that Revzilla added a $50 gift card for purchases over $300, so I got two of those, so 10% off and $100 cash back. It helped absorb the sting. I don't know if there are other sales throughout the year, but if there are, I wouldn't expect more than 10% off.