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Post by telemachus on Nov 6, 2022 22:02:45 GMT
You really need to make up your mind on exactly what you want to use and what the supply requirements are for those particular items This is true. The first most important thing would be to up the wattage of the headlamp bulb (at present 45W) which I hope would leave something spare. I have a notion of going further on a scooter than is normally done hence the desire for a phone charge capability, and that would need 5W or so. But scooting about has revisited the reality that you just don't get as much respect from other road users in the same way that a more aggressive-looking machine does, which led to myself considering a dash-cam type situation. Maybe just do what the bicyclists do. Several years ago, while out driving through some back streets, I happened on a chap lying in the road with his scooter (co-incidentally also a 90) fairly well smashed up. He had a broken ankle. Whomever had hit him didn't stick around. Despite his injuries, the middle-eastern looking chap refused an ambulance; in fact he begged me not to call. Can't think why. He had already called a friend though, who, when he arrived, assumed I was the party at fault...nice. Very true, you really have to have a different attitude when driving a small bike. THEY are out to get you! Very noticable when I used to ride to work either on an XL185 or the Exup (and later the Hayabusa). On the small bike, I think especially as it was a trail bike, you got no road respect whatsoever. And eventually I was taken out by a taxi turning right across my path on the XL. Whereas on the big bikes, the drivers moved away from you, gave you room. Obviously in part because you could drive the latter a bit more agressively, but I think it goes back to a primal fear of injury and whilst a car driver looks upon a small bike or bicycle as presenting no threat, a big black fuck-off bruiser bike creates a different mental image in the car driver's subconscious. |
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Post by jim on Nov 7, 2022 8:30:35 GMT
You really need to make up your mind on exactly what you want to use and what the supply requirements are for those particular items This is true. The first most important thing would be to up the wattage of the headlamp bulb (at present 45W) which I hope would leave something spare. I have a notion of going further on a scooter than is normally done hence the desire for a phone charge capability, and that would need 5W or so. But scooting about has revisited the reality that you just don't get as much respect from other road users in the same way that a more aggressive-looking machine does, which led to myself considering a dash-cam type situation. Maybe just do what the bicyclists do. Several years ago, while out driving through some back streets, I happened on a chap lying in the road with his scooter (co-incidentally also a 90) fairly well smashed up. He had a broken ankle. Whomever had hit him didn't stick around. Despite his injuries, the middle-eastern looking chap refused an ambulance; in fact he begged me not to call. Can't think why. He had already called a friend though, who, when he arrived, assumed I was the party at fault...nice. Is there an led replacement for the headlamp bulb? And the tail lights too? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2022 16:01:15 GMT
This is true. The first most important thing would be to up the wattage of the headlamp bulb (at present 45W) which I hope would leave something spare. I have a notion of going further on a scooter than is normally done hence the desire for a phone charge capability, and that would need 5W or so. But scooting about has revisited the reality that you just don't get as much respect from other road users in the same way that a more aggressive-looking machine does, which led to myself considering a dash-cam type situation. Maybe just do what the bicyclists do. Several years ago, while out driving through some back streets, I happened on a chap lying in the road with his scooter (co-incidentally also a 90) fairly well smashed up. He had a broken ankle. Whomever had hit him didn't stick around. Despite his injuries, the middle-eastern looking chap refused an ambulance; in fact he begged me not to call. Can't think why. He had already called a friend though, who, when he arrived, assumed I was the party at fault...nice. Is there an led replacement for the headlamp bulb? And the tail lights too? Apparently there are some technical difficulties which means it's not possible for head and tail, possibly to do with the fact that both are supplied directly by the generator. I don't pretend to understand it, although if that is the case then upgrading the gen to the 100W item, which is single phase, and thus (apparently) feeds all the power to the batt first, may alter that situation. Although it would at the least mean that the bulb holder would have to be switched out. |
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