correcting headlight for use in South and North America
 

HI,

What if any alterations shoudl I be doing to use my bike headlights (UK) in South and North america?

Nik

Nik
To my knoledge non.....
Your light should burn all the time.Is that what you mean?
KH

I think, as a Scotsman, he is thinking of having his low beam point to the right rather than left. Depends on the bike, if it's a sealed beam, it's easy to change. Not sure how hard it is to find opposite hand reflectors if it's not.

Unless you plan on ridng at night a lot I wouldn't bother changing it. Half the idiots on the road can't be bothered to dim their brights anyway.

Oh, and look here....

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb...ML/000285.html

Thanks for that, will take a look.

Nik

Hey,
we did not have a problem with headlight during night. However, at least in Brasil the light has to be on the whole time, also during day.
Anyway, I really recommend you not to ride during night. That might be really dangerous because of bad road conditions. It might be that the road is in a good condition for 50km, but suddenly there are everywhere holes. And I do not mean little holes, like in Europe!
So be careful riding during night. It might also have big rocks on the road in the andes. So better let that be.

Enjoy your trip
Burnout1

Hi!

No one will care about your lights but they should work, because sometimes they will control that! In Brasil they must be on and to drive in night is really not recomanded because the holes in Brasil are really big and beetween Sao Luis and Belem you can dump cars in there without seeing them anymore!

Have fun, Appie!

Ridden UK bikes over in North and South America for ten years. Never changed the headlight. Whether you should or not??? We've never had a problem.