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deltarider:
To be sure, I'll reread forsaid test which was published in a motormagazine edited by the very trustworthy ANWB (our AA), but I'm pretty sure it said: LED? OK, but in a reflector designed for LED. H4 halogen? OK, but in a reflector designed for H4. EU legislation it explained.
There's a lot in the market right now. I tend to have confident in products by Osram and Philips, but I can wait. In traffic I favor uniformity and I will fit nothing that could be at the expense of fellow motorists.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
That's dreadful Dave now't worse that Hit & Run drivers - they don't seem to bother even if they hit a pedestrian.
Just a lack of integrity and values that seems so prevalent today.

The apparent  lack of everyday Roads Polcing is the start of something they will live to regret.
As a probationer you learnt to engage with the local population through stopping motor vehicles and talking to young drivers well meeting local criminals in the process.
My first arrest for a garage burglary was when I stopped a local lad in Clowne near chesterfield for driving through a short pedestrian tunnel.

I noticed that the wheels on his old Austin 1100 looked almost brand new, I was aware of a theft of wheels from a private garage. Duly arrested, invertigated, home searched and charged with Burglary - as my old Sergeant used to say most Burglars don't walk to a commit crime.

deltarider:
Here the answer from Germany.
Osram und Philips bieten zugelassene LED H7 aber auch H4 an. Du darfts sie aber nur nachrüsten wenn sie für das Fahrzeug auch geprüft und zugelassen sind.
Für die Hondas wird das wohl nicht der Fall sein.
So, you can only fit them, if they've been tested and admitted for your specific vehicle. That's also what the article said.

Laverda Dave:
In the UK it appears we can now use LED replacements for H4 lamps as per below:

The MOT rules have been clarified from 06.02.23 to allow the use of LED conversions that pass the beam pattern tests for headlights for Class 3, 4, 5 and 7 vehicles (car, private bus and light commercial vehicle) first used before 1 April 1986 and all class 1 and 2 motorcycles of any age.

That's good enough for me  :)

deltarider:
Ofcourse, but I, on the European continent, am not prepared to spend € 80,- on a bulb, unless I am absolutely sure it's an overall improvement. Until then I will remain satisfied with my 60/55W H4 in the H4 reflector, the bike came with. Saves me the job to create enough room for the ventilator well known brands have. Personally I don't need anything brighter as already now reflecting road signs irritate me.

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