Steve Zodiak
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I'm getting things ready to cafe race my 650 Guzzi. I'd like to do a twin headlight set up but haven't seen any here: does anyone have photos or thoughts on twin lights? Things to watch out for or avoid?
Twin headlights
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Steve Zodiak said:
Cafe Guzzi! Sounds like a really nice project! 8) A friend of mine has an 850 LeMans Cafe Project on the go right now! 8)
As far as the dual headlight thing goes, I have a set of dual projector beam lights on my KZ Superbike. I'm kinda torn on wether they really look "right" on it! There are different styles and some are probably more "appropriate" on the older machines than others. The dual light look is associated most often with Streetfighters.
Having said that, anything can be done, and be made to look great! The most important thing is that YOU like it! ;D
Oh yeah, those projector beams are wickedly bright!!
;D ;D
Forgot to add the pics! Sorry!
be cool to set it up so that one is on all the time and the other will click on when you want to... I know that some guys with driving lights on their baggers will put a blue lense on one so that it will give them great vision in fog... that may be cool... doing something like the BMW rockster has woudl be INSANE
Steve Zodiak
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Hmmmm. nice stuff. I suppose I should look into the output wattage of my electrical system before selecting lights. Any comments on that?
Steve,
Here's something I did to to put twin headlights on my V-Rod. I bought a Buell XB fairing on eBay and then got the stock projector beams from a local dealer. The stock headlight bucket was replaced with a machined aluminum piece that looks like a pair of eye glasses. The fairing turns with the forks and is mounted to the triple tree pinch bolts and the drag bars. If you're interested I can send you a copy of the drawings to build the mounts.
Scott
Here's something I did to to put twin headlights on my V-Rod. I bought a Buell XB fairing on eBay and then got the stock projector beams from a local dealer. The stock headlight bucket was replaced with a machined aluminum piece that looks like a pair of eye glasses. The fairing turns with the forks and is mounted to the triple tree pinch bolts and the drag bars. If you're interested I can send you a copy of the drawings to build the mounts.
Scott
Steve Zodiak
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Those all look great.
Scott, your modification to the V-rod looks terrific. Can you post details of the mounts here?
Scott, your modification to the V-rod looks terrific. Can you post details of the mounts here?
Sorry, its taken me a while to get back to this topic. You asked how I did the headlights on the V-Rod, well here you go. Look at my previous post to see what it looks like installed.
If you look at the stock V-Rod, it has a single headlight that hangs from a mount on the top triple tree. I had to fab up a new mount for twin lights that used that stock mounting point, and allowed me to use the Buell headlights that fit the XB9 or XB12 faring (the farings are both the same).
Here's a picture of the hardware that my son and I made:
Follow along:
1. In the upper left is the mount that holds the top of the the fairing. It's a simple handlebar clamp with a stalk that bolts to the stock V-Rod windscreen mount that I used on the inside of the Buell fairing. We then had to make the outer mirror block off plates.
2. At the bottom is the mount for the bottom of the fairing that also serves to mount the turn signals. The large piece is a made of hex stock that takes the place of the upper triple tree pinch bolt. It's threaded on one end and tapped on the other end to allow the turn signal to screw in and hold the fairing. The smaller item is a short copy of the stock turn signal stalk to help keep the turn signals in roughly the stock location.
3. In the center are the "spectacles" that we made. They bolt into the stock headlamp location and completely support the twin headlamps. The lamps just poke through the fairing. Sorry I don't have any pictures that I could find of the mounts without the fairing attached.
If I had to do this for a cafe, I would still use the handlebar mounts and the triple tree bolts. For the spectacles I would fab up a plate mount and attach it to the fork ears. I think I still have the part files and if anyone is interested I can send a print.
An interesting story is how we put this all together.....my son Matt did this three years ago when he was a high school senior at a technical high school studying computer aided machining. I designed the parts in Autodesk Inventor, as I finished I would send the part files to him via e-mail at the school. He could print the blueprints and then took the part files into MasterCAM to toolpath the Haas VF2 CNC for the "spectacles" the round parts were hand turned on a lathe. E-mail in the morning, finished parts when he got home from school!!!!
If you look at the stock V-Rod, it has a single headlight that hangs from a mount on the top triple tree. I had to fab up a new mount for twin lights that used that stock mounting point, and allowed me to use the Buell headlights that fit the XB9 or XB12 faring (the farings are both the same).
Here's a picture of the hardware that my son and I made:
Follow along:
1. In the upper left is the mount that holds the top of the the fairing. It's a simple handlebar clamp with a stalk that bolts to the stock V-Rod windscreen mount that I used on the inside of the Buell fairing. We then had to make the outer mirror block off plates.
2. At the bottom is the mount for the bottom of the fairing that also serves to mount the turn signals. The large piece is a made of hex stock that takes the place of the upper triple tree pinch bolt. It's threaded on one end and tapped on the other end to allow the turn signal to screw in and hold the fairing. The smaller item is a short copy of the stock turn signal stalk to help keep the turn signals in roughly the stock location.
3. In the center are the "spectacles" that we made. They bolt into the stock headlamp location and completely support the twin headlamps. The lamps just poke through the fairing. Sorry I don't have any pictures that I could find of the mounts without the fairing attached.
If I had to do this for a cafe, I would still use the handlebar mounts and the triple tree bolts. For the spectacles I would fab up a plate mount and attach it to the fork ears. I think I still have the part files and if anyone is interested I can send a print.
An interesting story is how we put this all together.....my son Matt did this three years ago when he was a high school senior at a technical high school studying computer aided machining. I designed the parts in Autodesk Inventor, as I finished I would send the part files to him via e-mail at the school. He could print the blueprints and then took the part files into MasterCAM to toolpath the Haas VF2 CNC for the "spectacles" the round parts were hand turned on a lathe. E-mail in the morning, finished parts when he got home from school!!!!
Steve Zodiak
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Thanks for the info Scott - it helps a lot.