Has anyone made a custom switch or device to turn off the front head light? I am riding in some questionable areas and do not want to attract attention to myself.

 

My old Husky has an inline push-pull switch on the headlight/number plate cowl. Should be easy enough to wire-in. Find your wires and put a toggle inline.

 

There are some good older threads on this you may want to search for. I simply cut the headlight ground wire and installed simple SPST toggle switch.

 

"Questionable areas"?...are you tending that marijuana crop in the dark again?

Yeah, I put a headlight switch on my KLX just to cut down on voltage draw when riding off road since our bikes don't come with a kick starter. I used the ground wire method like IDRIDR. Someone here mentioned that there would still be some current draw with this method, but I hooked up my multimeter in a couple of tests and didn't detect any draw whatsoever with the main headlight ground wire in a switch. I did the same thing with my last KLR650. Make sure you run a switch worthy of the current draw in that circuit when the switch is on. I was going to run the taillight in this loop, but I left it in operation as it seems to keep me from being run over by KTMs and other race bikes when riding in a group...LOL!

 

The small current draw it seems is through the high beam indicator lamp when the new switch in ground line is open (off). I think this happens only when the dimmer is in high or low position (don't recall). TNC - you run a vapor computer, don't you? Did you include the dash with indicator lights? If not, you wouldn't notice the draw.

 

Ah, that must be it then. Yeah, I have the Vapor and no high beam indicator.

 

When I was riding yesterday evening, I literally stopped deer in my head lights. Got me thinking, that I don't want Johnny Law or a Rancher with a new Browning to do the same thing.