FYI cycle gear has HID conversion kits on sale. 54.99. easy install bright light. 35 watts 6000k. normal price 109.00.

 

Just take the diffuser off your headlight first. If that doesn't make it bright enough, then get an HID. The diffuser is the piece that covers the headlight inside the headlight bucket and can be broken off.

Drew

 

I loved my HIDs on my previous bikes

 

Save your money and get the LED headlight!

 

54.99... Compared the 499.xx
Don't think so..
I love my HID's...
I go 12K..
Love the blueish white lights!!

 

Anything over 5-6K will bring unwanted attention. I run 6K and have it adjusted perfect but still get the occasional visit...

 

I know it's not as relevant to bikes (unless there are some crazy sumbitches out there) but the bluer the light, the harder it is to see. 6000K isn't bad and even then it's not noticable until you're driving in the snow. I think my Car has 6500K or something like that and last time I was out in a snow storm, it was hard as **** to see.

5600K is generally considered daylight, so 6000k isn't going to be that blue.

I'd like to eventually do an HID upgrade for my bike, but when I do I'm going with a cooler temp light and getting yellow.

Like how that's backwards? :-\ cooler temp is a warmer looking color and a hotter temp is a cooler looking color.

 

I've never been pulled over because of the lights in my car. Like I said in my other post, 5600k is daylight (at least by photographers, it can range from 5000K-5600K) so getting pulled over for having 5000K is rediculous and 6000K isn't much more of a blue color than pure white at 5600K.

 

Well sorry, I wasn't as lucky as you. The fact is in NJ anything over 65watts is illegal and anything over 6K is too.

 

These sell for ~$29 on eBay.

HID kits like these just replace the bulb and do not have a Hi and Lo beam option. HID conversion bulb kits like these, because they are florescent, take 30 seconds or so to reach full brightness, so don't work well in a high beam application although they work decently well as a low beam. There is also the issue of beam focus. Because the HID bulb produces light at a different point within the reflector housing ( it is a long, thin bulb) the beam focus is not always correct (more of an issue with high beams).

A better, but slightly more costly option is to install a bi-xexon HID projector inside your existing headlight housing. They are designed to easily retrofit inside the headlight housing with minor surgery.

Bi Xexon projecters contain an electromechanical device to change the focus on high beam application but use a single bulb so the warm up period is not an issue.

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