stupid question
 

Can someone please enlighten me as to why sports bikes with 2 headlights, only ever seem to have one on?

Its a european thing.

Supposedly 2 headlights close together is easy to mstake as a car, far away. Though it'd have to be a car with massive, bright headlights.

...that were angled up at 45 degrees at the edge, an irregular shape and that leaned over as the car went round bends. :)

But an SV has 2 headlights and last time I looked, both of them were on!

...as does my Daytona.

As said, its usaly because they are euro imports.

and my speedtriple.

Manufacturers tend to do this to bikes so they can have just the one wiring setup for both european and british markets, probably saves a few bob on wire as well.

Most modern bike have this, but if I've paid for both headlights I'm going to use them (melt their eyeballs) :twisted:.

My Ducati had one headlight for dipped and one for full beam. I had some helpful people point out that one of the lights wasn't on. I had to explain that it was for full beam.

The Speed Triple always has both on, which I prefer.

Yup... my '99 S also suffers from this same symptom... which annoys the hell out of me... except when signalling, then it looks like she's blinking an eye. :wink:

Anyway, and jumping on the opportunity, can you guys tell me if british SVS's also have assymetrical lenses? :?

PS: I'm curious about what they'll do with the Kwak ZX-14's 6 headlights on that matter :wink: