I basically never drive at night, but a while ago I did and I noticed that my headlight was shinning too high up in my opinion. I never took the effort to check it out, although in day-time I could see light reflection on cars in front of me.
So last night I took the effort to check it out. First by putting the bike about 7meters (should be about 12m?) from a straight wall and seeing that the headlight is shinning higher as the beam-hight. Second test to have my friend on the midlle of the road and driving in his direction. He was totally blinded. And indeed not much light straight in front of me on the road.
So there are 2 options (or maybe both)
1. The headlight setup was wrong from the beginning
2. Lowering my bike (with the WR-lowering kit) did change the geometry of the bike a little bit as the front is not as much lowerd as the back. So in theory the headlight would indeed shine higher up.
So tonight I will adjust the headlight, altough I do not yet understand if I have to screw the adjustment screw to the right or left.
Chang Noi
So last night I took the effort to check it out. First by putting the bike about 7meters (should be about 12m?) from a straight wall and seeing that the headlight is shinning higher as the beam-hight. Second test to have my friend on the midlle of the road and driving in his direction. He was totally blinded. And indeed not much light straight in front of me on the road.
So there are 2 options (or maybe both)
1. The headlight setup was wrong from the beginning
2. Lowering my bike (with the WR-lowering kit) did change the geometry of the bike a little bit as the front is not as much lowerd as the back. So in theory the headlight would indeed shine higher up.
So tonight I will adjust the headlight, altough I do not yet understand if I have to screw the adjustment screw to the right or left.
Chang Noi