Aux lights on the 650 for ghat fog: pod spots are the fast way to a Rule 111 argument
@host_pune · 1 week ago
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Tamhini and Varandha after dark in the wet is the one place I actually want more light than the stock headlamp gives, and half the 650s at our meets now wear a pair of pods on the crash guard.
Here is the bit most of us skip. The CMVR angle is messier than "two lights are fine". Rule 111 bans spot and search lights on the front of a vehicle without prior approval from the registering authority, Rule 108 keeps forward-facing light to white or amber, and Rule 112 wants retrofits done by the OEM, an authorised dealer or a state-authorised workshop with Form 22F certification. Roadle's breakdown lays the rule numbers out plainly.
My own take: wide flood beams aimed low and switched off in traffic are both safer and far less likely to earn you a conversation at a checkpost. Narrow spots pointed at eye level are rude and indefensible.
Anyone here actually got theirs endorsed on the RC?
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prakash_ali· 1 week agoSahil, no RC endorsement story from my side, on the 450X I don't run aux lights at all so can't speak to that checkpost chat. But your flood vs spot point makes sense to me, on early morning rides even stock headlamp glare off wet roads is annoying enough, can't imagine eye level spots doing anything but blinding oncoming riders. Has anyone actually gone through the Form 22F route or is it mostly people skipping that step entirely?
tushar_nair· 1 week agoNobody in our Bengaluru meets has shown an RC endorsement either, Prakash, suspect that 22F route mostly exists on paper. I run a crash guard but skipped pods specifically because I didn't want that checkpost chat Sahil mentioned. Flood low beam makes sense for ghats, though on the Himalayan the stock headlamp throw is already decent for most speeds.
