My lights aren't E-marked, but that's merely a matter of getting an appropriate lens to suitably diffuse and cast the light in a horizontal low beam rather than the central spotlighting they're doing at the moment.
I'm only going to be using these when riding on the forrest roads around where I live! I certainly wouldn't want or need to use them in a town, on a motorway, or anywhere else either externally lit or well travelled at night with no off-side hazards!
Should also point out that I'm aiming the lights out and down (to illuminate the sides of the road ahead of me, below car windscreen level). The point of these lights is to avoid the overwhelming deer hazard. Honestly, you've no idea how many deer there are in the forrests around these roads, and how many accidents they cause ever year.
Hell, just last month a local biker (older bloke) smashed into a full-grown deer at 60mph, sending him and his bike flying into a farmer's drainage ditch (about 30ft deep). Thankfully he survived and will walk again, same cannot be said for his bike or the deer for that matter.
I consider the lights I've got currently as "temporary" (thus the efforts I've put in to make them easily removable from both the chassis and the cabling).
Once I get some suitable E-marked lights (they're really pricey for low-amp, high brightness LED E-marked fog lights) I'll recycle the current lights either into service lights in my garage, or emergency lights kept under the saddle when not in use.
My electrical mods thus far:
- GPS (fused, direct to battery... no need to hook this up to the ignition)
- Marine-Grade Lighter Socket (fused, direct to battery... I want/need to be able to use this with the bike switched off)
- Foglights (fused, direct to battery... temporarily, anyway)
I'm also considering fitting an amber rotary hazard light... just to see if traffic gives way to a motorbike with amber flashers ;)
