The Evitek is 1/3 the price of the Vleads. Do you have the Evitek units installed Marty? If so, how do you like them?
First I don't drive at night much...but yes I do have them installed and I like them. ( <----
There that answered the question, below is the blah blah blah answer )
They are brighter than stock OEM, look the same as the HIDs I just took out, and have a defined cutoff. The only difference I noticed (and it's fairly unimportant and insignificant) from the HIDs and stock OEMs is: There is a downward projected line of light on either side of the bike that is seen on the ground and is very noticeable at night especially when following several C14s going down the road. The HIDs had the exact same pattern as the OEM bulbs only brighter and whiter, however the LEDs have split the single beam on each side into a more scattered pattern of two or three lines.
If you are not familiar with the pattern that I mention here, you almost need to lean left or right and look down to see the ones made by your own bike, like I said it's most noticeable when following other C14s at night. I assume that the new pattern is because both the HIDs and the OEM had one arc/filament (low beam on the OEMs) where as the the LEDs have an LED on either side for the low beam
(and two additional for the high beam) so the focus point is a little more spread out left and right instead of dead center.
I never liked the HID setup as it just had too many wires and I was always messing with them to keep them from rubbing other wires when I turned the front wheel. Most didn't have
this problem with their HIDS, but I have both Denali lights and Hyper Whites low on my front wheel so that was already lots of wires down in that area, the HID wires were too much
in the same dark area that I found to be a real pain to work in. The LEDs do not involve much more wiring than the stock wires, and if one were to go out, it would be very easy to replace it
with the OEM bulb from my tool bag, that wasn't the case with the HIDs.