[nkbug]

Hi all

Can anyone help please...

I'm thinking of getting xenon bulbs for my bike....the K3, K4 and K5 have the H7 and H4 bulbs....but i have no idea and cant find which bulbs the K2 has...does anyone have any ideas?

Also...is it worth getting these bulbs? do they make much difference?

i had a brief chat with a mate and he suggested getting some HID kit or summit, but was sayin it costs quite a bit...

any thoughts would be apreciated...

Thanks

 

[rene]

what your looking at are just blue tinted bulbs not xenon for xenon you'll need the HID kit

 

[nkbug]

what your looking at are just blue tinted bulbs not xenon for xenon you'll need the HID kit

oh....so are these things any good?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XENON-BLUE-HEADLIGHT...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[rene]

"giving the appearence of an expensive HID system"

you'd be better off getting some better standard bulbs, think the HID kits are normaly about ?200 if your useing the bike alot at night id still consider doing it, gives awsome light like your driveing in daytime!

 

[K3Z]

I am sure the HiD kit is alot cheaper then ?200 i'm sure i seen it for around ?120 New. but was a long time ago.

 

[rene]

didnt do much of a search but came up with this

http://froogle.google.co.uk/froogle?hl=en&...sa=N&tab=wf

for the proper thing its about ?200 by the looks of it. Used to have HID on the x-type and the lights were amazing and i mean awsome. If i was rideing at night more id 100% buy them

 

[jonny56]

i thought you could just fit xenon bulbs straight in a bike

good job i havent bought any yet. What are good bright lights for a standard r6 headlight then?

 

[V_senna]

HID kits have gone silly cheap, 60 quid delivered on ebay, BTW I heard there going to ban aftermarket HID's as they blind oncoming traffic, really do give off too much glare.

Those blue bulbs are rubbish, they'll still be yellowish light, there bollocks.

 

[tommyb]

Im getting some of them new bulbs that are like a really weird orange colour, look well evil imo!

These beasties

 

[V_senna]

fuking bargin, ive just ordered a pair

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/H1-H4-H7-H11-9005-90...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[ukbilleh]

I got these for my bike - Would love HiD but its a bit too expensive for me atm.

They are 50% more on the box but 60% on the bulbs base.

Below is with the standard bulbs in: Quite a yellowish light

Below is with the Xenons in giving a more white light.

Difference dont look that much different in the day but at night its immense compared to the stock bulbs I was running.
The light also stretches out a lot futher: Id say things start to get a bit difficult to see 25m - 30m away over my old bulbs and the light is a lot whiter than stock.

 

[V_senna]

get the hid in my link only 66 quid delivered, you cant ask for much cheaper really, btw how many cats have you got???

 

[ukbilleh]

what colour temp did you go for? do you need to do a lot of f**king about to install them? where you going to slot all them boxes etc?

Damn u for showing me that link - i want i want i want

just seems a little weird they are so cheap when most kits are like ?300+

oh I have 5 cats btw

 

[V_senna]

no idea where Im going to put those boxes yet, sure i'll find somewhere, I got the 5000k, (4300k are brightest ones, and those are pure white), the higher the colour temp the more blue /purple it gets, but less brighter aswell.

you just plug and play, no wire cutting etc as it says, best thing is they last longer than normal bulbs and drain less battery!

 

[rene]

make sure you give us a write up once your done quite intrested in that!

 

[tommyb]

Its all well and good having them, they had a write up about them in one of the mags a few months back, but there was f*ckall room to stash the boxes as they need to be really close to the lights, Ie they have to be mounted behind the front fairing somewhere or under the tank....

 

[rene]

not seen how wide the front of my bike is lol be easy to locate them, harder to keep them dry tho

 

[tommyb]

Yeh it would be easy to do on mine or yours rene because the fronts are so wide and theyre is f*ckall behind the front fairings, but on summit like Vsenna's bike it would be hard, or UK billeh's because its got plastic covering everything and the lights etc are alot bigger.

 

[sameshoz]

Those HID things look immense.

Sorry for being stupid but how do they work? ie, whats the difference?

 

[tommyb]

They use gas instead of a filament and use really really high voltages.