This is a discussion on HIDs and LEDs within the Pictures forums, part of the Multimedia category; All my friends I ride with say it is to hard to see me when we ride together at night. I want to be seen!!! ...
All my friends I ride with say it is to hard to see me when we ride together at night. I want to be seen!!! To be safer and look good. I need help with my color choices. The bike is Vivid yellow and balck. the LEDs will be under the bike and maybe inside the body
should I get 3,000k HIDs with yellow LEDs,
or 30,000k HIDS with purple LEDs,
or 5,000k HIDs with white LEDs?
maybe red LEDs with some kind of HIDs
30,000 K? Do HIDs come that high? That must be a typo. Really I wouldn't go much beyond 5K HIDs (more like 4.5K) if I were to go with HIDs. And, though, UV LEDs would probably look cool, they won't appear very bright at all. The human eye is not very sensitive to UV. I would stick with either green or blue LEDs.
Instead of HID I got a pair of PIAA Extreme Whites for my bike. Still halogen but much better than the stock H7's. Not only that HIDs really need additional optics to get the beam pattern correct. They will be bright but they'll focus like shit otherwise because of different geometry of the tubes.
I have the 10,000k HIDs in both headlights on my 05 636 and people say they are blinding when i ride behind them. i can see for what seems like forever with them on.
i got 10K in my car and 8K on the rocket. 10K its very hard to see. When it start's raining you pretty much can not see. 8K are the best. I would go with them to be honest