The small sidelights use 5W each for a total of 10W so it's a small but still useful gain in power if you changed them to LED. Seems the led ones being suggested are bout 0.75W (12volts at 65 mA) each, so you would save about 8W.
Also as they run at 8000K the colour of them would stand out more which is good for being seen.

Crusty your suggestion of using 2x35W bulbs in the fog lights seems like it might be viable (with the 55W main bulb and no heated grips). I can't be 100% certain however as we don't know the exact power draw of the Tenere so are still running on estimates. The only way to really know would be to try it then ride the bike for 4 hours or so to see if you can make the battery go flat :)
Bear in mind that if you run very near the power capacity of the bike you are not leaving much power to recharge the battery after starting it. Should be ok with 30-40 min rides but frequent short trips to the shops would almost certainly cause problems!

On the positive side it should be adequate for lighting up the road immeadiatly in front of you, as well as aiding visibility, keeping the looks and not requiring any extra effort to fit.

From what's been suggested so far I'd go for the 35W fog bulbs and replace the side/auxiliary lights with led versions. That or have the 100W main/dip bulb with extra LED sidelights to make you more visible, you should also be albe to run the heated grips with this option.

Gulgo, if the standard Tenere sidelights only use 5W, compared to 55W with an assumed 1000LM output then you'd only expect about 100LM from them. The brighter of the replacement LEDs' mentioned gives out 40Lm at 1W so is punching at about twice it's power rating compared to a normal bulb. LED's are quite intense however so would not provide much spread of light to see with if they were made into a headlight though I suspect

Right my LEDs have arrive this morning so I am going to fit them, and come back with some photos and a report so stand by your beds :walk:

Looking forward to your findings on the "sat array" LED bulbs Rick. My bike bullets thingy`s came this morning ( great service as only ordered them Thurday evening.....).
Does anyone have a link to the LED side lights in the headlight housing?
Mark:thumbsup:

Try this thread http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=11978

read the thread to the end and then print off the info and carry with you on the bike :041:

Unfortunately it is the same place you got the bullet thingy's :icon_tongue:

http://www.bikevis.com/motorcycle-t1...sidelight.html

The right one has been changed to a LED H3 you can see that it is a different sort of light, in the second photo they have both been change and the right one seems brighter I think it is because of the angel of the bike



http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1663 http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1664




I will try them out tonight and see if I can get some more pictures, it is hard to get a good one in day time because different angels show up differently, I would say that they are on par with a 35 watt bulbs but they are only using 8 watts if that total for both

http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1665




http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1667



http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1668





http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1669


http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1665



I will give an update after I have tried them in the dark tonight :glasses2:

Hi Rick,
what dip bulb are you running? 55W or 100W?
Mark

55watts

Leds Spots at night
 

The photos of them at night well 6.30pm. They look OK, but if I was to sum them up I would say that they are very good for been seen but crap for seeing. They do not light the road up at all, but they can be seen by other road uses.


http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1671




The small ones at the bottom are Bullet lights from Bikviz



http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1670



The last one is with my dipped beam on, and I am stood a lot closer, so maybe the further away you are the more effective they are


http://www.xt660.com/gallery/display...p?imageid=1672



So in short if you want to seen and not have to worry about flatting your battery them they are great.

If you want to light the road up, they crap



This is copied from the web site ....................

They are designed for direct replacement of your spot lights or day time running lights. There is no need to modify anything just take your old bulb out and place this in it's place.

It will convert your yellow looking bulb in to a nice HID white colour. A good match if you already have HID bulbs in your car.

Specs:
13 High power SMT leds per bulb
Direct fit for standard H3 bulb
12v
2W

Note: Led bulbs are not to be used as the primary source of light, these are designed to replace auxiliary spot lights or fog lights only.
They give off about the same amount of light as a 10W halogen bulb so you will still be seen on the road but you can not used them to see where you are going. Most H3 bulbs are 55W in comparison.


So in total 4 watts usage

Hand guard lights
 

Hi guys,i just fitted a Acerbis hand guard on my tenere,also installed led lights,so have some extra visibilty.