Headlight bulbs full beam

[noobie]

I currently have hid's 6000k on both the dipped and main beams. The dipped works brilliant, so much so that I rarely have to use main in my every day riding.

Looking back, the only time I can recollect using main beam has almost always been to quick flash someone, which of course hid's are pretty useless at. So I am now going to take the hid kit off the main beam and replace it with a normal bulb.

I've seen led's being mentioned but for the use it has, I feel the standard type bulb is more than good enough. However, has anyone changed a headlight bulb for another standard type but chose one of these "brighter" bulbs ?

I believe the standards are 55w but have some aftermarket ones are 100w's. Anyone any ideas?

 

[Jaws]

Folk have found that if you precharge ( by turning it on for a few seconds until it gets up to full brightness ) the HID ballast when you first start up, that will allow 'the quick flash' for ages afterwards !

 

[noobie]

Good to know John, I'll give it a bash.

 

[Oldbull]

A fair few of us have now gone the LED route in the main beam on and around the same brightness as the HID but with instant on/off ideal for the main.

Ramo and Cyclops on here did the ground work for them and we ended up with these

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/72W-6500K...988974?hash=item25ada3e3ae:g:nDsAAOSwQTVV95f-

they have the removable fan to aid installation on the Bird as its a little tight for space with the fixed type and you cant get them in ...

Tried and tested all last year I have them on my Bird and my Yam TDM,
The ballast is smaller than HID as well. I will be be putting them in the low beams as well when the HID dies...

Dont go back to a bulb youll think youve gone blind