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Originally Posted by
techno-hog
Hi, are these lights road legal?
70% of my riding is done in pretty much single track country lanes to and from villages and to be honest im not very impressed with the main beam on the bike. can you quickly switch the lights on and off like main beam??
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Legal? Well, erm yes if use in conjunction with main beam at night and not when there is oncoming traffic, but no if you use them in the day or with dip at night. Generally it is not the lights that are legal/illegal, but more when/how they are used.
Switching: I have them wired into a separate switch on the left bar, so can be flicked on easily, but then they could just as easily be triggered from the main beam switch alone (see pic).
Like you, I drive on country lanes where there is little or no traffic so use main beam a lot, so additional low wattage lights are really very handy.
I did consider wiring the dip bulb to stay on with the main, but that's 110W/9A. Quite often I complete a whole journey just on main at night, with heated grips etc this would have been marginal on the alternator output. If I lived in town I would go for this option though and save the dosh spent on the spots, as you'd use main beam for much briefer periods.