The best light setup for an 07 Ec300???
 

Hey Guys,
The bike is gradually being personalised to me by me but I was wondering what the best light setup is for these?
The standard headlight is meant to be good and as my bike is noy rego'd as yet I have not been out at night to check.
Is there a cheap way to get the lights good enough to be competitive in night racing or do I just get helmet lights or additional lights.
Any help would be great as I will be doing a 24 hr race in June.
Cheers Mark:)

I guess the first place to start is to determine what ignition you have. I ssume it's the 2k3?

You can look at Trail Tech's website for ideas because the KTM's 2T's also use that ignition. http://trailtech.net/

If you have a 2K-3 I'd do a DC conversion and run the Trailtech integrated HIDs. These are nice, in fact I'm thinking of mounting a pair on my Ducati as driving lights.

There is a guy on here "fullthrottle" from Austrailia you might want to have a chat with. He got his stator (2K3) rewound to 200 watts by a place called betta bikes in AU. for night riding/racing. This is his setup

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20...e/100_0207.jpg

Cheers guys I wil check the Dc conversion thing.The ignition is a 2k3( i am pretty sure anyway...how do you tell again?).
If nothing else I will get what full throttle has as he got it where my bike was originally sold on the other side of town.
Thanks again guys.

If the wires come out of the ignition cover at 2:00 it is the 2k-3 ignition, just like in the photo above.

Thanks Eff I'll go have a look but I reckon it is .
Thanks Mark

I think it'd be hard to do a cheap but effective light setup for racing. It really effects your speed. I did a bit of night mountain biking and if it's a problem at MTB speeds it'll be even more so on an enduro bike.

http://www.trailtech.net/lights.html

You are right but previously I had an Rmx and just had an ebay diamond cut 6" light and the original light and got by alright , that is until a bloke that could see with hid's came up and passed me.
My light were ok until compared to the daylight of hid.
The thing is it is 6 races a year for three hours each and tha 24 hr road trial which is 12 hours of darkness. Therefore it is a lot of money to outlay for limited use. However I know you get what you pay for and was just interested in what others were using.
Cheers Mark,

HID's are very white and wash out the terrain,, if your colorblind at all I would stay away from these.. I have an issue with colorblindness and the HID's wash out too much of the little color I see till I have depth perception issues using them.. I tried them on a mtn bike and could not judge distance at all on obstacles,, went back to a halogen light,, no problem,,.. Try picking up a light mount like the big round one pictured above and then mount a hella crystal lens in it with a 105 osram bulb(sp?).. These do very well on rally cars.. and since you arent in the US you should have no issue picking them up..