Hi Jenny
Just fitted a pair to the Ten(bought on the ebay link) and they look good (alongwith the free blue xenon aux bulbs).
Super bright white blue light-not tried in them riding in the dark other than in the garden just now.

Any problems with heat to the plastic lamp lens?

cheers

I had no problems with the 100w bulbs, other than one eventually blew after about 10,000 miles...

Just had a look at that ebay link again, for �5.95 I'm going to buy some more!

xxx

Thats more millage from your bulb than the Nightbreaker osram 55w bulbs I bought. They cost me�25 and both have blown in about 10-15k miles, certainly brighter and more distinctive however.

I've had to put some originals in for now but have ordered these and will try and post some pics to demonstrate the difference. Much cheaper than HID as well and leave an easy option to remove them.

At least 100w bulbs are legal on motorcycles (unlike cars)

Got the 100w bulbs fitted and they certainly seem to make a difference. Really nice white light and certainly brighter. Using my flasher now gives me a nice which lit-up foreground before finally turning a dirty yellow where the main beam is (I'd not changed that). I've since changed the main beam bulb as well as it made such a difference on dipped. Glare on dipped seems not much different than before as well so this seems like an excellent cost effective way to beef up your lighting. Just makes the sidelights seem distinctly yellow by comparison now!

I was going to do some comparison pics on a test ride but by the time I'd stopped to change the bulb it was sufficiently hot that I could not change it! Got the first set of pics and will post them when I got some comparison pics to show them against

Glad you like the new bulbs-with mine I got free the two blue zenon side lights Did you? These look the part and match pretty much the two main lights now.

No I did not get those so the sidelights now look distinctly yellow (which I'm not that unhappy about as it's quite distinctive/noticable which can only be good for being seen.

As winter approches I'm considering pimping my ride with a few LED's. Should make me all that more noticable on the m/way when I'm filtering and better side visibility at junctions etc.

Was thinking of starting with these http://www.m-99.co.uk/Car_Neon_LED_L...ap_covers.html

Ok managed to get some pics tonight which were quite enlightening!

Pics are comparing a standard yamaha shop bought 55W H7 bulb with 100W 8000K bulbs bought from ebay. The 100W bulbs have quite a strong blue tint on them so quite a bit of the light produced will be bring lost there.

All pics were taken at F4 1.6 secs on a 18mm lens. Camera was handheld so apologies for any camera shake.

This is the Dip beam Standard 55W bulb on the left and the 100W 8000K on the right


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The next two are on full beam. I probaly ought to have chosen a better road to demonstrate this really, or not left the bike on the side-stand!

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The standard bulb seems to provide a much more conecntrated beam with the 8000K one spreading the light around a fair bit more. That seems to work well with the dip beam but does not throw the light as far on main beam (or at least its too weak to be noticable there). Main beam on the 8000K bulb does illluminate the more immeadiate details in front of and to the side of the bike than the std bulb however.

The 8000K bulb is certainly easier on the eye being more like daylight so provides much better contrast than the standard bulb but ultimatly I think the colour cast is too strong at 8000K and too much light is being lost, I'll be looking at some 6000K or warmer bulbs which should yield more light (also our eyes are most sensitive to light in the 5500-6000K range at night - lower in the daytime)

Overall I do theink they are an improvement from my riding tests but not as much as I was hoping with the strong colour cast. For ultimate nighttime visibility I'd be looking at bulbs with less strong of a colour cast (5800K is where our eyes are most sensitive at night). For being seen however they should do the trick nicely unless I later decide to go for sodium yellow bulbs instead!

hid lights
 

Have emailed hid50 but no reply as yet, going round the black sea next year, away for we guess about a month, recently bought a well fitted out xtz, touratech panniers, all the protection etc, but thought the lights were diabolical, friends x are very good, H4 I think, also a little concerned about the rectifier problems, any other known problems I should be aware of as we will be covering about 10,000 miles. Martin

Ive had HID for quite a while of the GS I had and liked it but bear in mind if the ballast goes then you have no lights at all. As a safety measure I ran Hella DE fogs as well just in case. Unlike a normal bulb you cant flick it to dip once the ballast goes.

I had no problems with mine but safety wise its worth thinking about.

Thanks for pics mate!