[Darren69]

Originally Posted by alan s4

Looking forward to seeing the finished result on the bike Darren. It will give me a good kick up the bum to get mine fitted, I've had the adaptor ring for years now

Yea, me too, and it would have been already, had it not been for the fiasco of the lamp being cracked when I went to put it all together.

I think sometimes modifications need a longer time to be considered but I'm the worst for having an idea, buying the bits and then thinking um, not sure and forgetting about it. This particular mod has been in the pipeline for quite a few years now and I happened to notice the carbon bits sat unloved in a dust covered box. Originally the plan was to give the original lamp unit a facelift with a carbon shell. The guy at Carbonvani convinced me that I needed a rim too and it would be easier to make one that matched the housing he was making for me.

I originally thought the shell would look cool with the chrome rim and original light unit but considering that they are so old and rubbish it would be folly I thought to throw a light weight shell at it and burden it with a heavy and still rubbish light unit. I went down the HID route with the original unit and so the carbon bits have languished until now when I had considered the original idea but with an LED unit, then I thought well what am I going to do with the rim then anyway. Having seen some bikes with the Motodemic conversion I was swayed to go the whole hog and go full carbon with the LED unit. It's modern/retro look seemed to be a good idea, in my mind at least. And it is so light compared to the original I am convinced now that this is the way to go.