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I am very excited about a mod that involves using the dual headlights off of a speed triple [dont have them yet] and fitting them to my BA.Has anyone ever seen this done and would it be a bear to wire correctly?

People have done the dual headlights before, but I believe you're the first to try a pair off a Speed Triple. Thunderbike in Aussieland had a kit years ago.

Here are some threads to peruse:

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...true#Post398704

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...rt=all&vc=1

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...rt=all&vc=1

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...rt=all&vc=1

http://www.bonnevilleamerica.com/forums/...rt=all&vc=1

Thx John.I really did search before I asked!I mustnt have my search params set correctly.I found these. http://www.flyncycle.com/Dominator_Headlights_s/1456.htm the duals they have listed would look great ,thx for pointing me in the right direction.

The search engine isn't exactly user-friendly, but it's been around for over 5 years and some of us have actually been insane enough to delve into the arcane voodoo it takes to get results.

That's a long-winded way of saying, "No worries."

Back on topic: I've seen those dominator lights, or ones like them, mounted on cruisers before. I like 'em. Might do duals some day but I already bought a 5 3/4 spun aluminum headlight with recessed trim ring for mine.

I was just on that site browsing for quite some time.They also have the mounting brackets to attach them right to the forks.Now I just need to check and see if the plug in is the same and the power requirements match ,by looking at that site can you tell?It does show the plug and gives the power requirements.

You're going to probably have to do some rearranging of the wiring. Have you seen the inside of the stock headlight? It's a rat's nest of wires, one reason my custom headlight isn't on yet. All the hand control and turn signal wiring goes through the headlight and I don't think it will survive all stuffed in the smaller headlight (you don't even have that option with those tiny dual headlights). I'm going to probably move it all behind the steering head and run new wiring to everything in front of that. It'll be a major project. The good news is that after it's done I can change headlights like I change underwear, once every other month or so.

Yeah,I was all for it till I went down and looked at the stuff inside the stick light bucket.All that would be a major pain to hide discreetly.IDK what I want to do now.One of those ideas that sounded better in my head I guess.

Thunderbikes in KIWILAND have some if you have a million $$

www.thunderbike.co.nz/shopn/SP/940058466.1267/pv=TBIKE,pg=15215,sg=,co=ASM

For that kind of money I'd rather just buy a single HID light.

I would be just about willing to spend that if all I had to do was simply plug them in.Of all the things I really stink at,electrical work has to be at the top.

Actually the Thunderbike headlights are plug-and-play, as far as I know. Not sure what you do with all the wiring, though. Maybe you should ask.

I looked through the directions ,it has like 19 steps.It may be easy but Im a little dense at times.

From there site.
. On your original light, unscrew the 2 headlamp screws, remove headlamp and disconnect both main socket and park light plug. Unbolt main lamp shell using 12mm spanner (bolts horizontally) and feed wires out of the back through hole.


1B. Remove existing bolts from speedo and fit bracket supplied. 90 deg end uppermost (see photo below) bolt into position with nyloc nuts and 6mm bolts supplied.




2. Using a sharp knife carefully cut the main loom insulation back 1 inch to split the loom so that the white main plug is on the left and the black plug is on the right, re-tape with insulation supplied.





3. Crimp on blue 'Power take off' connector to larger green wire on white main plug (on left side)





4. On R/H lamp crimp another 'Power take off ' connector to the black wire (off the back of the main standard light socket)



5. On R/H lamp crimp the last 'Power take off ' connector to the blue with white tracer wire also at the back of the main standard light socket.

6. Separate connector plugs white and black, feed the large grommets down both wire looms (white and black connector plugs)

7. Loosely bolt on new headlight bracket so it will not move unless small amount of force is applied. (So it won’t flap about while mounting things)

8. Mount new Thunderbike headlight shells to brackets, loosely as above. Make sure that the holes at the rear are both inner most.

9. Feed white connector plugs and small Speedo light plug (black) through left light housing Feed from back into cavity. Note connector blocks are a tight fit through housing. But will go with out forcing if feed through a correct angles when plugs separated. Fit grommet into shell.

10. Feed black connector plugs into right housing as per left and fit grommet.

11. Feeding of the new Thunderbike “twin headlamp” loom. Feed the non relay end of the loom through the left shell from the front, and across to the back of the right lamp. Feed through into right shell. (You should now have the relay in the left shell)

12. staying with left shell, connect brown-green wire (short wire off relay) to connector that was fitted earlier. (Green wire on white connector plug) this is the power feed to relay.



13. Connect left light socket to lamp. Fit high beam indicator lamp to inside of shell, by blue lens. NOTE factory park lamp wires not used. Gently tuck wires and relay into shell and about reflector as inserting lamp. Fit surround and secure screw.

14. Right lamp, connect black wire to connector fitted earlier (on back of factory lamp socket) black to black.

15. Right lamp, connect blue wire to connector fitted earlier (on back of factory lamp socket) blue to blue-white.

16. Connect right light socket to lamp. Fit high beam indicator lamp to inside of shell, by blue lens. Gently tuck wires into shell and about reflector as inserting lamp. Fit surround and secure screw.

17. Test lights Hi and Low. Adjust lights by setting up in front of a wall, with tyre touching mark on wall position were the beam hits, back bike away at 90 deg. At 3 meters check alignment pattern again on wall. Should drop approx 50-mm (depending on country of residence) @ 3mtrs. And be centered. NOTE there is 3 ways of adjustment in the brackets.

18. Enjoy brighter, cool looking lights!

Wotcha,

I have Twin Headlights on my America and it was fairly simple, i basically :

Bought two 5 3/4 headlight shells online (cheap)
Bought two 5 3/4 Cibie headlights online (they're decent ones)
Bought two bulbs online
Had a bracket fabricated to fit them for about £25
and bought a twin headlight harness/relay thing from easternbeaver (attaches to the battery, runs up the body and is plug and play).

once i had the parts took all of 20 minutes to assemble (hardest bit is finding someone to fabricate the part).

looks great! (however sadly my bike hasn't been running properly for about 6 months now since i had some work done on the tank).

Ant

Where did you put all the wiring that was in the stock headlight?

(apologies for the delay in replying)

if memory serves (and i'll have to check my bike) i either replaced them with the easternbeaver cable (with one plugging into the 'switch' socket OR i just added his cable direct and cable tied up the excess into a bundle measuring about 3 inches by 6 inches.

I then wrapped that in plastic and inserted that into a tooled leather tube that sits just behind the bug eyes (about the only bit of hard work i did on that one was cutting then re-cutting leather to fit).

It looks pretty discreet and is importantly waterproof.

Ant

You knew this was coming...









...got any pics?