Good thing no one ask for your recommendation...
And your recommendation is based merely on hearsay from a website...we all know anything on the web is accurate.
Indeed, it's partly from hearsay, be it experts in the field. Instead of drooling over advertisements, I choose to follow what they put on paper, institutions like, in the Netherlands, the ANWB and VVN. And then it is what I've seen myself or, let me put it better: what I have
not seen. The results with
aftermarket Led products are questionable. That does not imply that carmakers like Audi, BMW, M-B or Volvo are not capable to design a
new good LED headlamp.
Then there's this childish projection that a DRL must be as bright and white as possible to be seen. Research however has proved otherwise. In Europe the consensus among experts is that for motorcyclists a yellow or yellowish DRL headlight actually is best to be noticed as a motorcyclist. Some riders have accepted this and have changed, even on their newly bought bikes, the white for a yellow headlamp (see pic of a modern Suzuki), others use foil (see pic of what it looks like on a CB500) or they just stick to what the bike came with. That yellow(ish) light does not have to be powerful at all. A yellow dot (see pic of my ideal DRL) is enough. You can compare it to the yellow headlamps locomotives in Europe had for decades. They were not very bright, but they
were noticed and they certainly stood out. It's all about contrast to the environment. But... try to communicate this in a world where advertisements boast about thousands of Ks, etc, a world where consumers, eager to spend money, greedily suck in what ever the advertisements 'promise'. Some seem to think that the more you will irritate with a bright headlight, the more you will be respected. Not so. In the US as well as in Europe there are documented cases where drivers steered close to a blinding oncomer to teach him a lesson, in some cases a bit too close with fatal result. I myself have used the high beam - be it due to a lame PA switch - as a DRL for months, but I gave up when I encountered nothing but irritation. The Trucklite lamp in the Louis adverisement costs about € 300,-. That's a lot of money. So far I have not seen independent test results where those
aftermarket LED lights came out better than let's say a 55/60 H4 that happens to have the filament in exactly the right spot. Why not await such independent tests by known institutions? That LED light in the advertisement requires a lot of tinkering to get it in position and working. For what? Better light? Where is it?
I have not seen it. A reduction in Watts? But isn't that a myth in this forum, that there's a problem with the charging system? Yes in the US maybe there is, not in Europe. In my archives I have quite some socalled 'riders reports', articles in motor magazines where hundreds of riders riders were invited to share their experiences with specific models. Also the complaints were listed like: failing sparkplugcaps, oil leakages at the head, etc, but complaints about the charging sytem...? NONE.
