Driving Lights?

[bakalorz]

So it looks like I need to do a bit of experimentation, but a likely combo would be a 4000 degree 35 watt HID headlight (saves 20 watts) with perhaps a pair of 20 watt halogen driving lights (uses some of that 2 amps, or 24 watts we have to spare with the normal headlight).

I use a pair of 35 watt driving lights with my other bike, a '75 Gold wing, which works nicely, and have found that having one 35 watt light on is still acceptable. From that experience, I am thinking that a pair of 20 watt lights might work OK for the Suzuki. particularly if I also have a halogen headlight.

How does that sound? Or am I all wet?

Thanks

Thats not a bad idea, but realize that once you install the HID system, the 20 watt driving lights will probably not provide much additional light for you to see by.
The HIDs are about 3 times as bright as a 55 watt halogen, so equivalent to about a 150 watt headlight, which will swamp the driving lights.
If you need more light "way down the road", I suspect getting a single driving light and putting annother HID bulb in it would work the best
(since the beam pattern will be tighter than a headlight it will probably reach further) Otoh, that might be TOO blinding of other drivers if they get in the beam

Otoh, supposedly it helps other drivers to judge our distance and speed if we have more than 1 light (and if I remember right, the best is to have a "triangle" of lights)
So the 20 watt halogens would help in that sense.
I intend to replace my front turn signals with a pair of 4" round truck LED turn signals to use as running-lights/turn-signals for that purpose.

BTW, I have been shopping for the HIDs and one of the things I found out is that I may have been wrong about some of the terminology in my post above.
I was under the impression that Hi/Low was always the same as Bi-Xenon.
But some of the vendors are calling a bulb that has a HID low beam with a built in Halogen Highbeam (both built into the same bulb) a hi-lo bulb.
But Bi-Xenon always seems to mean a xenon bulb with a solenoid to move the bulb within the housing. (It may theoretically also include two xenon elements in one bulb housing, but I haven't seen any like that)
So be careful if you find a hi-low that doesn't say bi-xenon.