I've been having some fun with my bike over the last few days. I have installed a Cyclops LED headlight, and for good measure I decided to switch all of the other lights to LED as well (just because I can). I purchased some replacement LED bulbs for the stop/tail from eBay, and also sourced some triangular flushmount front indicators from there as well. If you offer me "free international shipping" I'm all over it! I had to wire in a LED-specific flasher unit as well.

I took a first run with the new lights last night, and aside from spending a bit of time on the headlight aim I'm very impressed. The LED light is awesome, the cut-off on dip seems to be OK with on-coming traffic even though there looks to be a fair amount of spill above the cutoff. On high beam the light is not quite as focussed as I'd like (but lots brighter than stock in any case) so I will try out the spacers that came in the kit, which move the emitters closer to the reflector and should provide more focus.

I also replaced the stock rebound valves in the forks with Gold Valves; my suspicion is that the stock HMAS valve body is quite restrictive so I am expecting the GV's to give a more supple ride on big bumps; initial indications seem to support this (but it is hard to be sure at night...).

While I had the tools out, I also pulled the carbs out to gain access to the water hose at the back of the front head, which had become a little incontinent. A bit more tension on the clamp seems to have sorted it out. For good measure I then re-balanced the carbs, easy enough as I have extended vacuum pipes under the seat for this very purpose!