Evening all. Just a quick question about aux lights, it's getting to that time of the year when I want to be seen. I have a set of rigid industries duallys on my xtz750 and am thinking about transferring to the 660, but where to mount, it doesn't have crash bars, and I think with the mount from adventure spec they won't fit as the rigid industry's are bigger than the lights that the mount was designed for. Would be grateful for any input or pics of other installs you guys have done.

Cheers

These brackets might work for you.

http://shop.sw-motech.com/en/4052572011171.htm


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Think you will struggle with duallies due to the size....maybe relocate the indicators into the park light holders and mount the duallies where the indicators were.
I managed to squeeze an Aurora 6 led under the headlight...awesome.
Matt.

I bit the bullet and paid �30 for this bracket from Adventure Spec.

Whilst it doesn't look like �30's worth of materials it certainly saved a load of hassle and time. Nicely made, very easy to fit and has survived a 6000 mile trip round Turkey, Georgia, Russia and back.

This is it on the bike - with my eBay LED lights (not that bad).

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Simon

Brighton, UK

Great thanks for all your help, I like the look of those motech mounts, all I need then is to pop an additional harness on, and can transfer lights as and when!

Hello,

Like Simon (Sweller) I went with the Adventure Spec bracket and bought a set of lights of eBay which look identical to his. I just updated the thread I made on this with my latest lighting mod- http://www.xt660.com/showthread.php?t=21956

Question is do you want to see or be seen? I think you need different solutions for each:
- Additional running lights to be seen, but not dazzle.
- Spots to see what's happening, but these are in conjunction with main beam in my opinion.

I'm not a big fan of the SW Motech solutions, simply because the lights look too exposed if you're doing any off roading. Having said that, prior to finding the AS rackets I nearly bought them. They also give you more options in terms of what you can fit.

Let us know what you come up with!

Cheers,
Penfold

OK this is great, lots of useful input, in response to tripletom I understand your comment about oncoming traffic, but not for filtering, regularly i filter on motorway and bypasses through 3-4 miles of crawling traffic, lots of people will not see you in their mirrors whilst they doze off on their way home, so lights like duallys angled down can give you a lot of road presence before someone decides to switch lanes. Well I think it helps anyway.

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Same as you bigone, I filter for at least 4 miles each way on my 50 mile round commute. Sometimes more if M4 is being ****.
Have never felt the need to run on main beam at any point. The theory says that if high beam is on then it becomes harder for other vehicles to judge your proximity. Irrespective of that I think it just marks the rider out as inconsiderate.
I've had one incident on that commute when a car changed lanes from the middle lane to the outside lane into me as I was alongside at 50mph. Not much you can do when they don't look.

Make one like mine?

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Yeh like that bracket john, you must be just up the road from me! nice little side line you could do there ; )
Interesting points here still, although I would be using them for night riding, back lanes through the country, as well as commute.