Adventures in lighting

[david3921]

I haven't been happy with my lighting on my Qlink 200 since I started riding it to work. It's dark when I leave, and this being deer country, I need all the light I can get so I don't T-bone one. I was really looking for some more bightness but more importantly, adjustability. I know a few here have upgraded their bulb to 45w but the strap style attachments don't allow any way to aim the headlight properly. I bought a set of dominator style headlights and installed them using home made brackets and clamps I got at Harbor Freight. I had to fab up a box to hold all of the wiring that was behind the stock headlight as it would have looked very messy. I used a metal outlet box with some brackets to house the wires and painted it flat black. I also bought the windshield that is designed for it to help protect the back of the instrument cluster. The shield sat in the box for awhile and when I pulled it out I found that it had a few cracks in it. I might paint it so that was no big deal.