'98 tourer headlamp projection?

[Jersey mike]

Hello everyone,

last night we had a nice evening so about 8:30 I warmed up the bike for a quickie and went out for about 20min.

it seemed to me like I wasn't getting enough light and when I switched to high beam it seemed like they were real "high".  The bulb is OEM and is new"ish"

I'm wondering what is recommended projection and what is the best way to gauge the projection aside from driving and trying to adjust as needed.

thanks,

mike

someone remove this please, I thought I chose the tech board. I tried to remove but I got the msg I cannot remove my own topic.

I made a new post in 1500 tech...sorry.

[John Schmidt]

One way to adjust it is measure from the floor to the center of the headlight when the bike is upright. Make a mark on a white wall (I use our garage door) at that same height above the pavement. Back up 17' with the bike and adjust the low beam to ride just on top of the mark. Again, the bike should be upright and with your weight on it for all measurements and adjustments.

[Sorcerer]

My 98 standard headlight sucked from new (2000). First evening ride I went out on I discovered that at 50 mph that I was so badly over driving the head light I wouldn't have seen a deer until it was 20' from the bike. 45mph for 40 miles to get home and I was still over driving the head light. Adjusted the low beam so that I could see where I was going, put the high beam so high that it left a big dark spot from 0-35' directly in front of the bike. I could how ever see the Raccoon 45' up in a tree. I lived with that for 13 years and 107,000 miles.

[john]

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