My very good friend, and riding buddy for the past 33 years, rides a '97 GL-1500, and he is a very good rider. He is 81 years old, and I slowly watch him fade away over all these years.
On a recent ride back in June, when he and I did the Pre-Ride for the Three Flags Classic rally, to check out the proposed route in advance of the event...I noticed that his headlights were not very bright at night. He told me that he had just installed the new LED lights on his bike. Yes, they were bright during the day, for others to look at...but they do not cast a bright beam down the road at night. In comparison, I run the HID low beams that I bought from SoCalMotoGear, and I love them. I also run the PIAA Super White high beams...love those too.
Okay, so my friends' LED lights are not as bright as my HIDs. Then, we just did the actual ride of the Three Flags Classic...starting in Tucson, AZ. and ending in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. It was during this ride that my friend of many years fractured his hip, and I had to ride his (USS Titanic) back to his home in Reno, from southern Utah. I was made acutely aware of how BAD these LED low beams were...as I felt like I had no headlights at all....seriously. I ran the high beams as much as I could, to do the midnight-oil ride of 553 miles to make it to his house.
YOU...try riding across the Lonliest Highway in America.....Highway 50...across Utah and Nevada...at night, with bad lighting.
I had already...previously..advised that he take those LED low beams lights out of there....and install either PIAA Super Whites, or...HIDs.
Now...tonight...I hear from him that the guy that sold him these lights, also installed the same ones in his own bike, and...after coming to the same conclusion that they do NOT cast out enough light to wake up a mouse crossing the road.....they both discovered that Big Bike sells these LED lights as.....Daytime Use Only lights !!!!! WHAT ????
Who in the world sells a low beam headlight for a Goldwing that is intended to be used for Daytime Use Only ???????
They are both removing these LED bulbs....and installing lights that will make me not want to have them following me.
It was a darn good thing that 99 % of our riding together always has me in the front, with all my powerful lighting, and him following me...with his dim-bulbed LED lights not blinding my mirrors.

Has anyone else tried LED low beams, and found there to be very little light cast down the road at night?
On a recent ride back in June, when he and I did the Pre-Ride for the Three Flags Classic rally, to check out the proposed route in advance of the event...I noticed that his headlights were not very bright at night. He told me that he had just installed the new LED lights on his bike. Yes, they were bright during the day, for others to look at...but they do not cast a bright beam down the road at night. In comparison, I run the HID low beams that I bought from SoCalMotoGear, and I love them. I also run the PIAA Super White high beams...love those too.
Okay, so my friends' LED lights are not as bright as my HIDs. Then, we just did the actual ride of the Three Flags Classic...starting in Tucson, AZ. and ending in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. It was during this ride that my friend of many years fractured his hip, and I had to ride his (USS Titanic) back to his home in Reno, from southern Utah. I was made acutely aware of how BAD these LED low beams were...as I felt like I had no headlights at all....seriously. I ran the high beams as much as I could, to do the midnight-oil ride of 553 miles to make it to his house.
YOU...try riding across the Lonliest Highway in America.....Highway 50...across Utah and Nevada...at night, with bad lighting.
I had already...previously..advised that he take those LED low beams lights out of there....and install either PIAA Super Whites, or...HIDs.
Now...tonight...I hear from him that the guy that sold him these lights, also installed the same ones in his own bike, and...after coming to the same conclusion that they do NOT cast out enough light to wake up a mouse crossing the road.....they both discovered that Big Bike sells these LED lights as.....Daytime Use Only lights !!!!! WHAT ????
Who in the world sells a low beam headlight for a Goldwing that is intended to be used for Daytime Use Only ???????
They are both removing these LED bulbs....and installing lights that will make me not want to have them following me.

It was a darn good thing that 99 % of our riding together always has me in the front, with all my powerful lighting, and him following me...with his dim-bulbed LED lights not blinding my mirrors.

Has anyone else tried LED low beams, and found there to be very little light cast down the road at night?
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