Big Bike Parts Focus LED Light Kit on a Harley-Davidson.
With daylight hours growing shorter as winter closes in, you’re more likely to find yourself riding at dusk or after dark. The headlights on most new bikes are outstanding compared to those of only a decade or so ago, but no matter whether you’re in traffic on a busy highway in broad daylight or on a deserted two-laner in deer country at night, more light is better than less. Adding a pair of driving lights or highly visible spots can help you see and be seen better than even the best stock headlight.
There are three basic types of auxiliary lights, says Brandon Westphal, sales manager at Big Bike Parts, broadly defined by the job you want them to do. “What we call driving lights throw a narrow beam of light farther down the road than the headlight,” he says. Driving lights give you more time to react to obstacles in the road like potholes or debris that you wouldn’t see as soon if you relied only on your headlight.  Chrome LED driving light.
“Spotlights act like floodlights,” Westphal says, “throwing a broad spread of light ahead, illuminating more of the shoulder of the road than the more narrowly focused driving light.” And finally there are fog lights. “The idea here is to throw a low horizontal beam that’s wide and close to the road surface, making it easier to see roadside ditches without being aimed so high as to blind oncoming traffic that̵...