After a not so nice trip in the dark (and before a big trip) on the Super Ten I decided that she needed some more watts pointing up road. Previously I had a set of expensive Denali D4's on the Super Ten but I've moved them over to the T7 as I was supposed to be selling the S10...(The selling bit hasn't happened yet and the bike performed as flawlessly as ever on a very quick 3,000 odd kms down South last week).
Anyway, back to the lights. I'd been browsing on Supercheaps website (as ya do) and noticed a set that looked like they might work on the bike and for $89 I thought, let's give it a go...
They are Ridge Ryder branded lights with each unit holding 6 x 5 watt leds. They even came with a flash harry harness which I didn't need as I already had one on the bike with some junk chinese leds. In about ten minutes the junk ones were gone and the new ones installed.
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| The Allen bolts allow adjustment of lights |
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| Well, they work in the shed... |
Once fitted, I had to wait a while for it to get dark so I could do a little road test. one of the things I liked about the Denalis is that each housing had two spots and two floods giving both a long range peek while also lighting up quite a wide swathe immediately in front of the bike. The Ridge Ryder units were all spots.
I needn't have worried...
Not bad at all and about 1/7th of the cost of the Denalis...and I just got a credit as they put the lights on sale this weekend...
I can also confirm that they were perfect for running the Buller Gorge at 5:30am last week...
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| Now sporting a nice bug collection... |
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