WTF a $500 headlight!!!

[john pavkovicMember]

While cleaning the old girl noticed that i had brocken the headlight (actually smashed it) so I got on the blower to the local bike shop and was quoted $495.00 for a replacement :laugh: . I heard that they are not cheap but 500 bucks. :angry: :angry: FARK THAT!!!!!

[Alan HeatherMember]

holeshot wrote:

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While cleaning the old girl noticed that i had brocken the headlight (actually smashed it) so I got on the blower to the local bike shop and was quoted $495.00 for a replacement :laugh: . I heard that they are not cheap but 500 bucks. :angry: :angry: FARK THAT!!!!!

Holeshot what kind of bike is the light on. bigger al.

[glennMember]

holeshot wrote:

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While cleaning the old girl noticed that i had brocken the headlight (actually smashed it) so I got on the blower to the local bike shop and was quoted $495.00 for a replacement :laugh: . I heard that they are not cheap but 500 bucks. :angry: :angry: FARK THAT!!!!!

that is exactly why my standard light is on the cupboard in the shed and I run cheap after market jobs, I dont ride to much of a night so the cheap ones work for me.

Boony

[GregMember]

Polisport MX headlight

I fitted one to the OBT project DR they are only 99 bucks unbreakable and provide a good light as well. I have had the same one on my XR (red of course :laugh: ) since 2006 seen a heap of roosting while racing and never smashed

ps don’t let Boony pick one he has had some ugly lights on his DR :laugh:

TB

[Adam RodgersMember]

Holeshot,

A lense on Thumpertalk is about $22 and the whole assembly is less than $90.

How can Suzuki justify $495 ????

No wonder people shop overseas

Adam.

[john pavkovicMember]

Yeh that sounds more like it, I’ll never look a DRZ in the headlight the same…
Where have all the smiley faces gone????
Thanks
HS

[john pavkovicMember]

For a 100 bucks i wouldnt care if it looked like Boony

[Alan HeatherMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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Polisport MX headlight

I fitted one to the OBT project DR they are only 99 bucks unbreakable and provide a good light as well. I have had the same one on my XR (red of course :laugh: ) since 2006 seen a heap of roosting while racing and never smashed

ps don’t let Boony pick one he has had some ugly lights on his DR :laugh:

TB

TB you got the same bulb in the polisport that it came with, because my high beam is ok but low beam sucks.

[GregMember]

bigger al wrote:

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Trailboss wrote:

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Polisport MX headlight

I fitted one to the OBT project DR they are only 99 bucks unbreakable and provide a good light as well. I have had the same one on my XR (red of course :laugh: ) since 2006 seen a heap of roosting while racing and never smashed

ps don’t let Boony pick one he has had some ugly lights on his DR :laugh:

TB

TB you got the same bulb in the polisport that it came with, because my high beam is ok but low beam sucks.

Yeah it only blew recently, I can’t comment on low beam I only leave it on high beam no bike light works well enough to warrant low beam :laugh: no one has ever flashed me for being on high beam

TB

[Gavin BrownMember]

I once riped the glass out of an Xr headlight and cut a clear lexan one, which was glued on with sillastic.
it worked fine.

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

Great idea. I broke my drz lens recently without even being on the bike, when the patrol spat a rock up on the way to Nundle and smashed the glass. The light works so ill try getting the glass out and fitting some lexan.

[Adrian SnowdenMember]

done one new headlight lens. mad e it out of 6pm Perspex it needed an additional 2 layers of 6pm just as edges about 5pm wide all the way around the edge to create a gap between the bulb and the new lens. All held in place with silicone. It will be interesting to see how it goes on Sundays ride. The cost bugger all , i gotthe perspex as an off cut for nothing plus some 5 min araldite silicone and two hours of my own time.

[JohnMember]

adam wrote:

Holeshot,

A lense on Thumpertalk is about $22 and the whole assembly is less than $90.

How can Suzuki justify $495 ????

No wonder people shop overseas

Adam.

Looked but could not find @TT. Do you have a link please?

[Scott SouthwellMember]

I’m another who has put the original DRZ light away as I heard how much they cost, that and the fact the whole assembly weighs about 2kg. I picked up an old RMX unit for mine.

If you think the light is expensive don’t smash the digital speedo assembly they cost the wrong side of a grand. I got a Trailtech Vapor on mine, again there is more weight to be saved here.

ps, I just noticed this thread has been dug up from the dark ages. :huh:

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

I was after a right hand side mirror for my DRZ, $145 from Suzuki. Told them not to worry about it and got some after market ones delivered for $32.

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