Hi Guys
I was just upgrading the headlight bulb to LED one at the weekend.
when I noticed the lower two mounting bolt hole sections had cracked, also a crack was running up the side of one side.
have any of you seen anything like this before?
My mate is going to try welding them back on, and when he looked at it he said it looks like it has happened before and been repaired on the opposite to the main split.
Those cracks are annoying, but commonplace, I have had to weld mine up too.
Going a bit off topic, I am in the luddite camp and have a 6v headlight, it’s not blown a filament yet, I don’t use the headlight in daylight and I rarely ride at night and keep the speed down if I do, generally I am all for improving safety by buying good tyres, brake linings etc but ultimately these bikes cannot be made anywhere near as safe as modern bikes so each of us have to draw the line somewhere.
If I did fit an LED it would be an additional “driving light” and on all the time. The headlight LED are not legal in NZ anyway and they usually get picked up by the beam testing machine at WOF (aka MOT) time. I’m thinking a really bright parking light LED in the reflector might work, if a 6v one was available.
I have not looked much into it but there are some oddities in the NZ laws eg driving lights must be on all the time and not switchable on/off. No parking light is required (on bikes anyway). A while back I watched a modern honda owner go livid when the WOF inspector basically passed his bike, but then asked if he could demo the extra driving lights he had fitted could be turned off, he turned them off and promptly failed the WOF