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boyscout you got nothing to applogise for your sound as a pound!

How you getting on with the TT anyway?

boyscout wrote:I didn't mean to start another ruck... 30 years on bikes... 15 of those across the channel... just trying to help... take it or leave it...

Not you at all Boyscout.

The lad only wanted to know if his lights worked properly on his YAMAHA. He'd had a diatribe about SUZUKI's design teams before you came along.

I was trying to keep out, but .... I hate bullshit, to week to resist such a big target.

AND THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST IN THIS THREAD. Promise.

It was meant to be a comparasion example about how "it works" over in the Jap bike design world...(according to someone else) may I add!!!

Anyway...blue always gotta have a pop...he's trying to make up for the inferior bike he rides

I'd be amazed if that was his last post either

im in work at the moment guys, and its very quite, and this thread is keeping me very entertained.

Think this one is dead in the water unless I've provoked a response out of blue LOL

Here's another theory as to why they switched from both lights on to only one.

At night a twin headlight bike could be mistaken for a car that is perceived as being much further away. Another vehicle waiting at a junction could pull out thinking the bike is a long way off when it isnt, resulting in brown trouser moments all round.
So they made all new bikes single light only on dipped beam. Don't know when this came in but was after 1999 as my SV had both lights on when dipped.

No idea how true this is, but I'm sure I read it somewhere.

The manufactures like to keep the number of models down and the number of parts as low as possible. So they try to have a bike legal in as many countries as possible. So to have only one loom everyone has to have only one Dip beam light, on the Fazer 600.

Mine has both lights on dip, but there is a different model for Germany and somewhere else that slips my mind, so they have obviously decided its worth having two dip lights on on the thou.

The extent that manufactures go to save a few pounds, or Yen , is incredible. I have spent months redesigning and changing to save pennies on each vehicle.

But its so tight for money now that if you go into a Ford design center they won't even give you a cup of coffee, and I mean that quite literally.

If that sounds like a furry post.


Please don't tell me. Rash will do that.


Just shoot me. Please. Please.

1blue wrote:If that sounds like a furry post.


Please don't tell me. Rash will do that.


Just shoot me. Please. Please.

Furry post

clunk wrote:So they made all new bikes single light only on dipped beam. Don't know when this came in but was after 1999 as my SV had both lights on when dipped.

My K2 SV has both lights on, so woulda been after this, but Daves GSXR6 not sure what year it is has single.