Throwing Some Light on HIDs.

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:35 pm

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech ... sions.html

StreetFlatTwin · Post by **StreetFlatTwin** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:16 am

Yeah yeah but a HID equipped car or bike makes it easier to see in the dark-and lights further.......or is that just me???

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:19 am

It seems to work well for my dip

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 12:28 am

Would'nt be without mine either, both head and dip. What he has to say about a pool of light in front of the bike giving the eyes a lot of contrast to deal with rings a bell tho. Some gr8 music on BBC 4 at the mo BTW.

cornishflat · Post by **cornishflat** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:45 am

Headlights on, then high viz clothing then move to hid bulbs. Its all right until everyone's using it then you,re back to square one, lost in a sea of people who don,t look or look and pull out anyway because my vehicles safer than yours. If they all drove glass cars they would have a different mind set.

timbox2 · Post by **timbox2** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:06 am

cornishflat wrote:Headlights on, then high viz clothing then move to hid bulbs. Its all right until everyone's using it then you,re back to square one, lost in a sea of people who don,t look or look and pull out anyway because my vehicles safer than yours. If they all drove glass cars they would have a different mind set.

And why MAG have been campaining to try and stop Cars having DRL(Daytime Running Lights), as you say when everything has lights on, we motorcyclists disappear.

The Interesting thing about aftermarket HID is that people everywhere tell you its illegal. I spoke to an MOT tester just a few weeks back who went through the manual for me, nothing in it yet specific to HID, but a vehicle will fail if the beam pattern is significantly out, so may depend on how accurate the testers equipment is.

Im not really a fan of the "Pretend Police bike Clan", but I have to say when I do wear my HI-Viz waistcoat a lot of Cars do seem to respond quite differently.

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:13 pm

timbox2 wrote: Im not really a fan of the "Pretend Police bike Clan", but I have to say when I do wear my HI-Viz waistcoat a lot of Cars do seem to respond quite differently.

Tim, I myself am considering buying a 'Hi-Viz' waiscoat and joining the "Pretend Police bike Clan" on account of it might prevent my involuntary membership of the "Actually quite seriously injured Clan".

Steve1200S · Post by **Steve1200S** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:45 pm

Try riding a big silver touring bike with a white helmet and hi-viz on!

Less speeding around me, and I do think it makers a big difference to how your noticed/respected on the road.

Think a proper hi-viz jacket and maybe some reflective checks on a white helmet is as far as I would go though..... no yellow and blue bikes.

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:10 pm

My german polizei jacket works a treat not many get close behind when i'm wearing it

timbox2 · Post by **timbox2** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:42 pm

Steve1200S wrote:Try riding a big silver touring bike with a white helmet and hi-viz on!

Less speeding around me, and I do think it makers a big difference to how your noticed/respected on the road.

Think a proper hi-viz jacket and maybe some reflective checks on a white helmet is as far as I would go though..... no yellow and blue bikes.

Same, there are a couple in my area who have obviously bought ex plod bikes and wear all the kit, Ive seen one guy actually sitting on roundabout exits "Pretending", whats that about?

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:43 pm

timbox2 wrote:
Steve1200S wrote:Try riding a big silver touring bike with a white helmet and hi-viz on!

Less speeding around me, and I do think it makers a big difference to how your noticed/respected on the road.

Think a proper hi-viz jacket and maybe some reflective checks on a white helmet is as far as I would go though..... no yellow and blue bikes.
Same, there are a couple in my area who have obviously bought ex plod bikes and wear all the kit, Ive seen one guy actually sitting on roundabout exits "Pretending", whats that about?

Can't say i have noticed them

Back on subject the black bitch went for it's mot today failed as the horn has decided it will no longer work
As i said back on subject the lighting test it passed with flying colours the cut off was right where it was ment to be even the spot of main beam [not HID] was in exactly the right position in relation to the dip this was all new to me i had never seen a rolling road brake test or a headlamp checking machine before for bike MOT's

Oh well back to the head scratching with the horn i thought i must have missed it when i did the pre mot last week but Ann came home and said it did work as she came out thinking i wanted something when she heard it
Got power to the relay so it must be a fault between the relay and the horn hopefully the snow will be gone tomorrow and i will get it back together and down for the retest

Twinspark · Post by **Twinspark** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:49 pm

Our dipped beam is the projector, isn't it? - which is fine for HID conversion, IMHO.

Also fine for conversion, generally, are headlights with clear lenses, where all the focusing is done by the reflector.

I generally wouldn't fit HIDs to anything that's a refractor, though.

I also wouldn't fit an HID to a separate main-beam, as they're useless for 'flashing'. If you have a combined dip / main, then a proper bi-xenon setup where the main / dip is controlled by a shutter, that's fine, though.