Me likey
This isn't my bike, it's just a Google image, but I forgot to take a 'before' photo
With an HID low beam and the OEM filament sidelight bulb, you get a nice 6K colour on one side (depending on what colour HID you went for, obviously) but a old fashioned feeling yellow colour sidelight.
So for a very little money, I changed my sidelight bulb with a 6k superbright LED, and this is what you get (my bike tonight)
MUCH better
Then there's the dash illumination......again, not my bike in this one, but the tacho and speedo bulbs are that old yellow incandescent colour
So I've replaced the speedo bulbs with a pair of 6k leds, and on the tacho , one 6K led on the left side of the dial and a red on the right, which works well IMO, showing up the redline area nicely
My bike tonight:
I've yet to dig out my spare RID to open it up and find a replacement for the yellow light in that, but that's on the list
And yes, my clock is wrong
EDIT......the sidelight (pilot) bulb is a beeyatch to get to from under the instruments, so I went in via the screen and binnacle cover.
I tidied up the cover while it was off
This isn't my bike, it's just a Google image, but I forgot to take a 'before' photo
With an HID low beam and the OEM filament sidelight bulb, you get a nice 6K colour on one side (depending on what colour HID you went for, obviously) but a old fashioned feeling yellow colour sidelight.
So for a very little money, I changed my sidelight bulb with a 6k superbright LED, and this is what you get (my bike tonight)
MUCH better
Then there's the dash illumination......again, not my bike in this one, but the tacho and speedo bulbs are that old yellow incandescent colour
So I've replaced the speedo bulbs with a pair of 6k leds, and on the tacho , one 6K led on the left side of the dial and a red on the right, which works well IMO, showing up the redline area nicely
My bike tonight:
I've yet to dig out my spare RID to open it up and find a replacement for the yellow light in that, but that's on the list
And yes, my clock is wrong
EDIT......the sidelight (pilot) bulb is a beeyatch to get to from under the instruments, so I went in via the screen and binnacle cover.
I tidied up the cover while it was off