| grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? | |
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+3GuzziSteve Deepdive Lazlokovacs 7 posters |
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Lazlokovacs Don Abbondio
Posts : 310 Join date : 2015-08-20
| Subject: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Fri May 19, 2023 2:30 pm | |
| Here's a rant.
Parking at night, need to chain the front wheel up to something. It's really dark, I need two hands to get the chain through the spoked wheel and lock it etc. Unfortunately, I can't turn my headlight on because some EU d---head decided that motorcyclists are not intelligent enough to turn their own lights on and off at the appropriate times.
So I do it in the dark, time after time, swearing like a sailor. It does get old.
Or visiting my girlfriend who lives in an apartment block. As I ride down the back of the building I have more than enough momentum to cut the engine and coast to my parking spot, I do this on other bikes, kind of considerate to the neighbours at 2 in the morning. Of course, if I do it on the GRiSO, no more headlight! annoying........
progress isn't all progress.
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Deepdive Grignapoco
Posts : 104 Join date : 2020-02-29 Age : 59
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Fri May 19, 2023 2:37 pm | |
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GuzziSteve Fra Cristoforo
Posts : 825 Join date : 2016-04-14
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Fri May 19, 2023 2:43 pm | |
| You can wire in a switch hotwire to a LED park lite in headlight bucket. That would be enough to see front wheel. Can't remember if there is one in your bucket. | |
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Pawel Spoon Grignapoco
Posts : 170 Join date : 2021-08-06
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Sat May 27, 2023 11:50 am | |
| On an ktm it shines as soon as you turn on ignition. I hate that. and battery isnt too big neither. A great combination.
i doubt that its due to some regulation, as it s exactly the opposite way on the ktm as on the guzzi. some italian designer thought its convenient | |
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bioman GRiSO Capo
Posts : 833 Join date : 2014-05-06
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Sat May 27, 2023 1:50 pm | |
| - Pawel Spoon wrote:
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i doubt that its due to some regulation, as it s exactly the opposite way on the ktm as on the guzzi.
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The headlight goes on when I turn on my ignition on my GRiSO (in Canada)... | |
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beetle GRiSO Capo
Posts : 10189 Join date : 2013-09-30
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Sat May 27, 2023 5:36 pm | |
| The "park" light comes on when the key switch is on. The low beam comes on when the engine starts.
Is your park light not working?
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Clancy Nibbio
Posts : 761 Join date : 2016-02-09
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Sun May 28, 2023 5:00 pm | |
| If it's just for locking the bike up when parked, turning the key fully anti clockwise past the 'lock' position will turn on the park light. | |
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Lazlokovacs Don Abbondio
Posts : 310 Join date : 2015-08-20
| Subject: Re: grrrrrrrrr why can't I have my headlight on when the engine isnt running? Tue May 30, 2023 1:23 pm | |
| yeah park light comes on, but only once the handlebars are hard left so not great illumination for the task at hand. I could modify it obviously but...
She makes up for it in plenty of other ways though.
If I could swap out that stupid reversed LH switchgear for something with an off/p/on headlight switch and the indicators and horn the right way round I would do it in a heartbeat. But you need that little button to work the dash, so I've never quite found the answer. Maybe some aprillia model?? | |
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