Is this normal for the lights?

[twowheeladdict]

Those spots are noticable to those around you as well.  Provides more conspicuity for you.  My riding buddies were following me and the sun set before we got to our stop.  When we stopped they were commenting on how my bike lit up the road below me. 

The first time I rode the '12 after dark I realized that the lights were set way too low.  I couldn't even do 70 MPH without overriding the lights.  I now have them set a little on the high side but have not had anyone flash their high beams at me.

[Boomer]

An R1150GS riding friend of mine calls them my "Photon Stabilisers".
I never notice them any more until someone else mentions them.

[B.D.F.]

Modern reflectors are called 'free form' and each facet is controlled to direct light exactly where the designer wants it to go. The facets that show light on the ground could not be there by accident and it would have been easier to have ignored that feature so it has to be a design feature. Same thing with the plastic light plates on both sides of the headlights- they are there to illuminate the bike from the side for visibility and it is another design on purpose.

Brian

I had always wondered if it was intentional- now I am convinced it is.

[AZ-ZG]

Photon Stabilisers is a good one. 



All I could come up with was "Light Darts."      

[lonekazoo]

I was riding along at night with a couple buddies on the way to Overland Expo in Flagstaff, and started to do some in-lane chicanes to get the blood flowing.  The rider behind me said over the intercom that the little dots of light weaving near and far to the bike made it look like I was levitating.

My wife hates the light spill when riding as pillion at night, she says it's very distracting.

[B.D.F.]

Get some black electrical tape and do one of two things with it: put some on the area of the headlight lens that the light goes through to get to the ground or put some tape on your wife's visor in the area where the light from the ground goes through. If you want to be sure you have alleviated the problem, do both.

 

Brian

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My wife hates the light spill when riding as pillion at night, she says it's very distracting.

[VirginiaJim]