I took the plunge and bought the new adaptive headlight. Installation was a snap. The light is well worth the money if you ride in the dark semi-regularly or more. The low beam performs better than the stock headlight and have a very wide spread. The adaptive lights work really well. The high beam, though, is out of this world (possibly literally...have to check with the International Space Station). Best headlight I've had an any bike, and better than most cars/trucks I've had.
New light on top...old light on bottom...
Low beams under low exposure time...
High beams under low exposure time...
Low beams...
High beams...
If you zoom in on the High Beams image, you'll notice a couple things:
- You can clearly see the side of my neighbor's house which is about 1/8th mile away
- You can see the yellow sign at the end of my road (looks like its in the middle of the road) a little over 1/4 mile away. (Here's a clearer image of the sign)
Road signs are lighting up over 1/2 mile away easily. I may have to pull my sun visor down when running the high beams.
Last edited by HuntWhenever; 03-04-2020 at 09:13 PM.
Nice. Looks great. I love mine (J.W. Adaptive 2’s, but pretty much the same, just w/o the illuminated ring)
I hope you didn’t pay the original $850. Looks like they just want on sale for $594! If you did, you should be able to get the difference back.
The one that is on sale is not the modified version to fit the 2018+ Softails unfortunately. I got the newer version (has an "A" at the end of the model number).
If you look at my original post on this thread, the two model numbers was what I was trying to get more info on before purchasing.
The one that is on sale is not the modified version to fit the 2018+ Softails unfortunately. I got the newer version (has an "A" at the end of the model number).
If you look at my original post on this thread, the two model numbers was what I was trying to get more info on before purchasing.
I took the plunge and bought the new adaptive headlight. Installation was a snap. The light is well worth the money if you ride in the dark semi-regularly or more. The low beam performs better than the stock headlight and have a very wide spread. The adaptive lights work really well. The high beam, though, is out of this world (possibly literally...have to check with the International Space Station). Best headlight I've had an any bike, and better than most cars/trucks I've had.
New light on top...old light on bottom...
Low beams under low exposure time...
High beams under low exposure time...
Low beams...
High beams...
If you zoom in on the High Beams image, you'll notice a couple things:
- You can clearly see the side of my neighbor's house which is about 1/8th mile away
- You can see the yellow sign at the end of my road (looks like its in the middle of the road) a little over 1/4 mile away. (Here's a clearer image of the sign)
Road signs are lighting up over 1/2 mile away easily. I may have to pull my sun visor down when running the high beams.
Good to know. I was hoping to see the little adapting lights come on. Any idea if you could get a photo of that(Safely ofc)?
Good to know. I was hoping to see the little adapting lights come on. Any idea if you could get a photo of that(Safely ofc)?
No way to take a picture of the cornering lights. If I lean the bike while stationary, they are only on momentarily.
On my test ride, I took a few turns tight enough to touch down a floorboard. There was still plenty of light up the road. I also took a set of S curves pretty quick and late apex, purposely flicking the bike side to side hard. There is an ever so slightly delay in the light switching directions...maybe half a second at the most. I'm sure the controls have some debounce timers to prevent flickering. But ideally, its not a good idea to ride that hard at night anyway. I only did so for testing.
IMHO, the adaptive thingy is not very apparent. Compared to the "cornering/adaptive" lights from cars. On cars, can see the lights swivel. But on the adaptive headlight, few LEDs on the edge will light up, I can see it but not very convincing.... Cos it's already bright enough on the primary LEDs.
03-04-2020, 09:08 PM
