light reflecting back in 749/999 is this right? - Ducati.ms

**rustysrustyduc** · Aug 24th, 2006, 3:11 pm

Hi All,

I got my 749 Dark running.. finally.. I've been working on it for 5 months and I finally got it registered and running. Great!

Now on my first night ride, I got a little surprise. You see, when I replaced my headlight housing, I decided to change things around, and I put my low beam on the bottom, and my high beam on the top. Why Not? The euro models are that way, right?

Well, the first time I hit my high-beams I practically blinded myself because so much light reflects back in the fairing.

Does it do that with the low-beams too? I know the low-beams have a cutoff pattern that would take out a lot of light on the upper part of the light, so *perhaps* it may not reflect that much light. But I don't want to pull apart the whole headlight assembly to find out and be wrong. I suspect it would still have a lot of light there.

Any ideas? Thoughts?

Thanks.

Bella749 · Aug 24th, 2006, 3:39 pm

The stock setup does the same thing, ableit more annoying than blinding

mad · Aug 24th, 2006, 3:40 pm

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Originally Posted by rustysrustyduc

Does it do that with the low-beams too?

Yes. Just been too lazy to seal it up a little.

**Chuckracer** · Aug 24th, 2006, 5:44 pm

My '04 dosen't.

BHakaLaw · Aug 24th, 2006, 5:48 pm

My 2004 749 is not that bad with light reflecting back to the rider. When I got my 2005 999 S, I was surprised at the amount of light that comes back into the cockpit. No, its not out of the ordinary. Now I really don't even notice it though, and I suspect that you won't either the longer you ride your bike.

If I were you, I would not go tearing things apart, because I don't think it will make that big of a difference, unless you are doing some custom fab to block off all light coming back towards you. Best of luck!

**Chuckracer** · Aug 24th, 2006, 6:01 pm

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Originally Posted by BHakaLaw

...unless you are doing some custom fab to block off all light coming back towards you. Best of luck!

...which would simply be a matter of some self-adhesive foam weather stripping around the headlight cut-outs in the fairing.

I had this issue when I put the RC31 fairing kit on my Hawk. A little weather stripping solved it.

kaos · Aug 24th, 2006, 7:15 pm

i find the aftermarket screens make the light worse as they higher around the guage cluster

04749s · Aug 24th, 2006, 8:26 pm

I did the same thing( swapped hi and low beam ) on my 04 when i installed the mag bucket and stays ..
but i haven't noticed any more light .

level7 · Aug 25th, 2006, 3:28 am

That wouldn't be such a bad thing as people can see you better all lit up at night. Just as long as your forward vision isn't impaired...which it sounds like it is.

**rustysrustyduc** · Aug 28th, 2006, 8:13 pm

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Originally Posted by 04749s

I did the same thing( swapped hi and low beam ) on my 04 when i installed the mag bucket and stays ..
but i haven't noticed any more light .

Oh.. OK, this is what I wanted to hear. I guess the next time I'm in there I'll think about putting some weatherstripping in there. But I'll have to see how hot the housing gets.

Thanks guys!