LED Headlight Upgrade

[Ulljanrich_imp]

Hello and good evening,
my name is Thomas.
I am living in the Black Forest Mountains, and that is in South-West Germany.
In September I bought my CB 1100 RS with 0 km, completely new bike.
I did so although I was hesitating after having read an article in an german M/C magazine in MArch 2018. There they reported about the very poor headlight quality of the +2017 CB 1100 EX/RS.
In those days I had a BMW R9T Scrambler, a beautiful bike, that has way too much power for me and does not allow me to get that cruising feeling.
When I had the opportunity to test ride a 2017 CB 1100 RS, I became convinced immediately that this would be the ride feel I was looking for.

So, although I knew about the poor headlight quality, I traded my R9T for a new CB 1100 RS in beautiful mat grey colour.

First evening, I went for a ride, dry road, familiar road in my area here.
It was quite bad, poor light, big disappointment and 100% what I had heard before in tha magazine.

When I happened to drive on a wet road a few days later in the beginning evening, I felt as if I was driving blind. This time I became shocked and to my astonishement I lost quite all of my trust in this CB 1100.
Even the next days I felt insecure, although it was bright daytime. I could understand once more, how much of Motorcycle riding takes place in the mind only.

It became clear necessity to me then that I would have to change the headlight completely.

Now, that was a major project for me as I am not the best electrician.
I didnt want to cut any of the original wires. I decided to built my self an adapter for connecting between the 8pin Honda plug to the H4 3pin plug of the aftermarket premium LED headlight.
Also, I didnt want to change the original CB 1100 Design, keep it as it is without changes.

Yet, eventually I completed the task succesfully and in the attachment below I want to share with you guys of this very nice and helpful forum the beautiful nice new light output on my 2019 CB 1100 RS.
Compared to the stock light, it is simply superb.
The pictures have been taken on wet road in front of my house, aprox. 25 metres away from my neighbours garage.

Yes, the smartphone camera is somewhat too bright, but I can assure that the actual light output does feel quite the same way as depicted.
Please excuse my poor english grammar. I hope you good guys can understand my story

Hope you like it!

If technical info of the modification is wanted, I can provide that in detail of course.

Thomas

LO Light


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