Back in the day I had a couple of Cibie Oscar rally lights on a few bikes (initially an early GoldWing and then moved them onto other stuff). They were absolutely fantastic and lit the road up like daylight but obviously a bit bulky for smaller bikes. A lot of the led spotlights on the market at the moment advertise lumen levels that would put the Oscars to shame but the ones I’ve tried (cheap ones!) are nothing like as good - they lack penetration. I initially thought it was something to do with the size of the reflector - the Oscars were 8” and the spotlights about 2.5- but the led headlights on our modern Mini are about spotlight size and they’re great.
If you do find good aftermarket ones I would mention one thing. I wired the Oscars to come on with the main beam and that enabled a decent cruising speed - until I had to dip. Then I dropped down from 3 lights to one and couldn’t see anything at a time when oncoming lights were blinding me. I’m still looking for decent led ‘driving’ lights but all of the sub £20 Chinese ones I’ve tried have not been good enough
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