Spot lights: what ones are good?

[NJD]

Bike: 99 Fazer 600 MK1.

Hi,

So its inevitable that I'm going to be doing more evening / night time / early morning riding for the foreseable, and since the headlights on the 1999 Fazer 600 MK1 (box-eye) are woeful in the dark I think its time I added some spotlights on the crash bars or alike to bring the outdated headlight unit design into the modern age. The problem I'm having, however, is deciding what set are worth saving up for?

1] The cream of the crop seem to be the Denali 2.0 range, but they are rather costly.

2] The givi S310 look similar, but reviews state their high draw on the battery and the beam pattern of the standard bulb / in general is woeful (although I'd probably wire anything I buy into a accessory fuze block rather than direct to battery).

3] Then there's the market flooded chinese copies on eBay, but I'd highly question the quality of the wiring and beam pattern etc with those.

So does anyone have any direct experience of using the Denali range, or have sensible cheap recommendations that aren't woefully inadequacy £10 crap jobbies?

My expectations of whatever I get are that they need to spread light straight in front of the bike and wide; and if possible for a short distance ahead. I'd like to see more of whats immediate in front of me down low.

Thanks in advance.
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I have the ~£30-40 ebay ones on crash bars on the divvy for I think over 5 years now. The wiring is pretty thin, but if you do a nice enough job it they will survive. I put a bit of silicone over the wire into the unit just to be sure. If you make them unpluggable too, not the end of the world to swap a new set in.

I put a bit of innertube in the mount too as they will eat a lot of vibration. I just keep them fully dipped at the road to avoid any dazzle and have them spliced into sidelight with a switch on the bars. Very useful to have in the winter etc tbh.
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