It looks good, but doesn't it hinder the cooling of the regulator?Finished.
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The front of the light is rounded. Since air flows around round objects, I'd say no.It looks good, but doesn't it hinder the cooling of the regulator?
I couldn't find the exact weight. I'm guessing about 1.5 lbs each.how much do they weigh
I'm not an engineer, and not trying to discourage you, but IMHO you are going to be chasing down these mounting bracket issues for a while. That is a lot of weight to be hanging off the headlight nacelle/gauge cluster/windshield mount bracket that attaches to the steering stem. Add the fact that it is sticking out there a good way acting as a force multiplier (or whatever the engineers call it). A few folks on here have had trouble with that steering stem-attached bracket cracking. Tri-angulating to the crash bars is a good idea, but I would use some sort of rubber bushing there, because there is going to be some movement between the headlight mounting bracket and the crash bars that will have to be accounted for. A rigid connection is just going to create stress somewhere else.I'm going to need to fab up a bracket that ties into the crash bars... and fix the damaged mount point.
Back to the drawing board...
I'd have to pull off the factory lights, and make another bracket. I don't have a garage to fab anything, anymore. So, I went with the brackets I already had.Why didn't you remove the headlight? If they no longer work, maybe you could have placed the two adaptive lights in the place of the oem headlight. They may not fit perfectly, but they could be closer to the front of the bike
I just hope the bike isn't strongly attracted to bug zippers now