Quote Originally Posted by Splash
Snowy,

So if I told you to pick either Fog or Aux what would you pick?

I have been looking at the Givi Trekker S310 Fogs, they seem to have good reviews and are halogen.

Or the Hawk fog light kit by Sw Motech :-?

Those Cree lights look pretty awesome too!

Shall I have them all? ;D ;D Then I could see 400 Miles... 8-)
If I had to choose then I would go for aux lights simply because I can use them to get home if my dipped beam failed. Built in redundancy if you like. But, I also have Hella FF50 spots on both bike's specifically to light up the road at night so I don't have the additional need for that purpose.

If you're looking at purely daytime use and specifically for being seen by others then there's little in it to be honest,. Again, if I had to choose I would stick with Aux lights as they don't glare at night as much as fogs do and pretty much serve the same purpose.

There's loads of options out there and I doubt anyone has experience of all of them. We all have our own opinion on what's best based on our own experience. From the GS forums one of the most popular "fogs" for daytime use and to give the "three point" light effect is the Hella Micro DE lamp. They're fairly cheap and easy to install. I have a set in the garage pre-wired to fit to either of my bikes in case of a failure.

I have heard good things about the Cree's from the point of view of daytime use i.e to make yourself visible to other road users. In my opinion they are still not up to the task for generating real useable light at night but then I do have 50 watt HID conversions on mine which have 4 x the power of conventional halogen bulbs. I have OCD when it comes to additional lighting as I hate having to slow down at night simply because of rubbish OEM lamps.

The other consideration is what can your alternator handle? If you're just adding bullet lights etc then there's no issue as there's minimal current draw but once you start going hardcore on your lighting then you need to know you won't end up with a drained battery miles from home.

Also, don't wire anything up yourself if you don't know what you're doing.

Edit: Forgot to add that if you add additional lighting such as fog lamps you must also fit a seperate ON/OFF switch so they can be turned off independantly - if you don't then its an MOT failure.