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- Path: sparky!uunet!island!fester
- From: fester@etorofu.island.COM ()
- Subject: Product Review: running lights
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184524.4639@island.COM>
- Originator: fester@etorofu
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:45:24 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Note: not associated with the following company/product except for having
- bought the kit.
-
- I recently asked for opinions on installing running lights (front and rear)
- on a BMW K75. I got the kit from Scooterville of Raleigh, N.C. Here are
- my experiences to date.
-
- I got the kits, and the instructions on both kits were for the rear assembly.
- They had crossed out the word "rear" on one set of instructions, and wrote
- in the word "front". After about 3 phone calls, they sent me instructions
- for the front installation.
-
- Anyway, the lights are fairly easy to install. Should take a competent mechanic
- about 10 -15 minutes (took me about 20) each for front and back. I'd recommend
- slightly crimping the male portions of the kit for a snugger fit, though, as
- recommended by someone via email.
-
- I've noticed people seem to give me just a bit more room in the rear now.
- Apparantly, I appear bigger. From the front, I *seem* to be more visible as
- well, though that may be due in part to having inadvertantly adjusted my head-
- light to a higher position. Oops. I'll get around to fixing it someday. In
- short, the kits seem to do what I wanted: make me more visible front-and-rear
- in nighttime traffic. Cops haven't stopped me for having rear running lights,
- though several people suggested they might. No cop I've talked to has said
- they knew anything about the lights being illegal, though some have suggested
- that it is, for the rear.
-
- Any other experiences with running lights appreciated.
-
- Mike
- --
- Disclaimer - These opinions are not so much opinions, as pearls of wisdom. Any-
- one disagreeing is obviously either a) a snivelling, whining, mentally-
- deficient, weak-willed, inconsequential, namby-pamby tool of some vague but
- conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
-