What are you folks doing, if anything, for auxiliary lighting? I just installed a more powerful bulb in my stock headlight, but I would really like to add some driving lights.

 

I've got a Phillips Nightbreaker bulb and its pretty nice. Much more powerful than the stock bulb. However, there are some new LED H4's out which supposedly are almost as powerful as Xenon lights. I think I will try them at some point, they are fairly cheap too.

As for even more lights, I am interested too. I've been considering a LED lightbar or something like that.

 

I put in a silverstar ultra, but haven't had it out on the road yet. I run them in my car and I like them. I had not seen LED h4s. As far as adding lights, LED seems like the way to go. I know good setups are hundreds of dollars (Baja Designs, etc), but that's not in my bike budget this year. I've seen some cheaper stuff on eBay, but it's so hard to know what you will get, which is why I brought up the topic. Stock lighting on our bike is way too weak for night riding inmy opinion.

 

My "homemade" led driving lights on the KLX




I see this guy is selling led headlight bulbs now: LED Headlight "Bulb" replacement Modules - ADVrider



On the Husky I went with these LR4: LEDRider - New Quad Cree XM-L LR4 Floods - ADVrider They draw 44watts but you'd be ok on a KLX if you weren't running heated gear. They are unbelievably bright.




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Nice looking setup! Do you know the specs on those leds on your klx? Do you have any problems with power output with the stock stator?

 

I just ordered these lights.


Hope to mount them very similar to DYNOBOBs set up.

 

Arickrock, those are pretty much what I've been considering after shopping around eBay and amazon.

 

Yea the might not be as bright as what DYNOBOB shows above but I think its a good place to start. Cant justify $150 plus in lights just yet. They should be in next week and I will be sure to post up some pictures of the finished product.

DYNOBOB - what thickness was the metal you used for your bracket?

 

The KLX has 9w led MR16 bulbs that I fit into some old lights I had around. No problem running them. You have ~85watts of extra power available on a KLX (while moving - less at idle).


The Amazon lights you're looking at are great lights for the money. They're not a long range light but are perfect for trail riding and will make you a lot more visible to approaching traffic.


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Custom made some brackets similar but opposite to Dynobobs. I would say there is easily 3 times as much light as before. They are bright for one LED bulbs. I would highly recommend extra lighting to anyone that hasnt done it yet.





Stock light only


With new aux lighting


Stock head light(with some light provided by my exterior house lights)


With new lights