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TrickyMicky:
Last week I ventured out in the evening, which meant returning home in the dark on unlit and unknown twisty country lanes. This was my first night-time outing for many years on the bike, and it brought home how bad the standard front candle is. I was therefore wondering if anybody had been clever/daft enough to fit a light unit similar to the attached(hopefully) photo.

Erny:
my 2 cents:
If you have stock bike, just install good H4 headlight insert with high quality bulb (for example Philips H4 X-tremeVision Moto).
One I used in my CB550K : https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000VU7C1Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm very happy with it

Note - did you check voltage on your headlamp terminals? Corroded wiring looms/contacts can cause big voltage drop, resulting into low intensity of light too!
My real experience - on my 550K I measure just above 10V while on battery I had >13V.

florence:
ride more slowly at night, it doesn't matter how good your lights are if deer are going to jump out of the hedge or a badger comes dashing accross the road  :D

bobv7:
Back in the day the next item that swiftly followed the original tyres into the cut was the headlamp unit to be replaced by a Cibie one. At least I could see it was a badger I was about to hit!

K2-K6:
There's only one way to find out!  ;D

On a more serious note,  I've got the price at about 34 quid which if you consider that an ok risk to find out it could be worth a look. 

Be worth doing a before and after picture of the beam pattern pointed at a white wall so we can all see how it works.

The attatched description on selling site is mostly pure bolleuxe (excuse my French  ;D) so you have to make what you will of the product.

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