My two pennys worth
For what its worth!
Have just spent a year touring europe and then crossing africa on 2 DR's with the missus, you made a good choice on the bike!
Fitting an on-off switch was something I had planned to do before we left but never got round to it and I can honestly say there has never been a time when it would have been useful, but that said it is a very cheap and easy thing to do, any waterproof/marine switch bought off ebay will work and all the wiring is nicely tucked away behind the head lamp making it nice and easy. An easy place to mount a switch would be in the recess at the back of the headlight cowl, above the light itself, nice and neat and easily accessible, the only problem being that you'd have to disconnect it whenever you remove the headlight cowl, but if you use bullet crimps and leave the wires about 20-30cms long it shouldn't be any hassle. This was how I was planning to do mine, almost everything is connected with bullet crimps on the loom there anyway.
Ride Safe
Matt
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