1260 Cornering Lights

They are awesome, but blind cars on right hand bends. Been riding all my life some 50 yrs. Never known lights like on the Multi LED.

 

Mine blind drivers even when I'm not cornering

 

totally AGREE. Need eyes everywhere. Try to tell friends when driving a car light a cig. talk a bit play with stereo, make a phone call. Riding a bike 100% all the time.

 

They are good but cars fitted with cornering lights blind me as a rider. When they are in the second & third position in the convoy at night behind me (on a windy lane).

 

Yep, mine is the same! Get flashed at sometimes during the day. Have it on full downward adjustment and still too high. But I am sure I can pack it down with some washer placement...

 

Maybe your rear preload is too light too? My 15DVT had same issue - light fully down - but swapping to sport from touring resolved the flashing... i did not like the harsness of Sport - so just up the pre load on rear a little to find the balance.

 

A quick way of upping the pre-load on the 1260 to lower the lights is changing from rider only to Rider + luggage + pillion settings, this can be done on the fly and then changed back for the daytime.

 

But why the feck should you have to do that on a £17,000 bike

Given up apologising to oncoming cars in my head now, coz they can't see me waving anyway after I've blinded the poor bastards.

 

Solution is to wheelie more, then light pass over the cars.

 

I find the cornering lights are good just as I'm turning into my lane way, they actually do shine a bit of light there. However at any speed over 15 kph they become irrelevant as they don't light anything I need to see.
The led low beams are good but the high beams seem pretty useless. My old VFR1200 H4 halogen put these to shame for night highway riding

 

You have S or base?

My S was way better than the VFR1200

 

What model year do you have. I have 2017 1200s & the main beam is blistering. Never known anything like it.

 

I used to have a VFR VTEC and the lights on that were brilliant, quad H7s on high beam. I think the lights on my 1260S are set a little high but they're not anywhere near as good as the Honda. I find that LED headlights on this and the my previous bike (MV Turismo Veloce) give something of an indistinct milky light that hasn't got the punch of halogen. The 1260 is better than the MV by quite a significant margin though. My car, MkII VW Tiguan, has LED lights and they are pretty good so it is possible to get it right with LED.

Cornering lights seem too high as well, maybe I need to tinker with the headlight aim...?

 

That might be why then. My 2006 vfr 800 vtech lights wern,t bad but the multi ones are superb. Adjusted them the day I bought it by quite a bit as they were way too high.

 

OK, thanks. Will get the handbook out and have a look at adjusting them.

 

Yep?

 

Its a bolt under the front bottom yoke acessed by removing the black plastic cover, 3-6mm bolts. Or maybe 5mm. ??

 

It's a 13mm bolt. And when you feel it get tight, do not keep turning it as the rubber boot around the bolt can get twisted out of its seat.

 

Do you mean a 13mm spanner . Ie a 8mm bolt.