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


Time spent without rod in hand is time forever wasted.

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Time spent without rod in hand is time forever wasted.

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

I don't buy into the 'being more visible' argument. If oncoming traffic hasn't noticed your main lamp, they won't notice any auxiliary lighting. I agree that additional lighting to increase what the rider can see at night particularly on unlit roads is a good thing. The Motech brackets look very flimsy and only have two mounting fixtures, small ones (M6 cap screw into a brass plug in the fuel tank) so you're not going to be able to mount decent lamps there.
As noted that mounting is also going to interfere with crashing and filtering.
A loop from either side around in front would be a great idea though..

Whilst I do run a pair of Vision X Solstice LED spots, by far the best bang-for-buck modification to the headlights on the Z is to wire them up so dip beam stays on when main is selected. A mod well worth doing.

It can be done for the price of a Scotchlok. Simply locate the rubber boot on the right hand side that protects the headlamp loom connectors, just above the radiator, and bridge the blue/black wire and the green wire. It is possible to do with the tank in situ if you've got small hands and patience, but is far easier with it removed.



These two wires can also be soldered together in the switch as an alternative.

One cautionary note though: This mod is only recommended for a maximum of 55W bulbs in both main and dip. It is inadvisable to use 100W bulbs as the all the current is carried in the green wire for both lamps. The cross-sectional area of the the headlamp wiring is gives a rating of 16A (even though the fuse is 20A!), so the theoretical safe maximum is 192W combined (although it will be slightly more if the engine is running and at peak alternator output). However, bear in mind 192W is using up ALL the spare capacity of the alternator

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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.