Re: RS Lights & side panels

["Neil Lindsey" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Miner" <axeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> If you look at the lens on the US models they say DOT/ and SAE and
> some other stuff . Maybe someone ( US and Europe , Etc)  who has
> their bike ( mines sitting in the dealers getting sender #4 )  can
> post what is imprinted in the lens, then we can all know what's, what!
>
> Erik
>
>
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Stephenson"
> >
> > > >  > > Mine was the original cyclops! Parted with the necessary
> > > > £11, fitted the
> > > >  > > relays outside the dealers and then asked them to check
> > > > the Main & Dip
> > > >  > > light
> > > >  > > aim. No difference and no adjustments required.
> > > >  >
> > > >  > It's interesting that both lenses are different from mine.
> > > >  >
> > > >  > I stand on my original suggestion, which was that there
> > > > must be a difference
> > > >  > in how the headlights will operate when, after the
> > > > additional relays are
> > > >  > installed, they are now both on for low and both on for
> > > > high.  But I'm
> > > >
> > > > why do you say that?  i can't explain the difference in part
numbers,
> > > > but i'm not sure why triumph would go to the expense of designing
> > > > separate lenses for a single market, when the existing dual-use
lenses
> > > > would work just fine.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but wouldn't the different
part
> > > numbers just be because of the differences required for driving on the
> > > different side of the road? The part numbers for my Australian 2000 ST
are
> > > the same as the UK model, which fits since both UK and Australia drive
on
> > > the same side, opposite to Nth America.
> > >
> >you may be absolutely right -- do your lights work together or
> >one-at-a-time?
> >


That's the info I've been trying to get, but so far only a few have
responded

Seems to me that the rules about 'one headlight at a time' changed only
recently (if anyone know for sure please let us know).  I thought Great
Britain was one such case.

If it turns out that in Great Britain '99 STs operate standard with both
lights on and that this changed in '00, then we should be able to tell
what's what by getting the lens info off samples of both years.

If the part numbers are the same in a given country even though the
functionality changed, then I think it would be safe to assume that the
difference in part number in Great Briyain vs the North America would be
attributable to the fact that in Great Britain you ride on the left.

If, however, we find out that the lens part numbers are different for '99 vs
'00 STs in Great Britain, then I don't think it proves anything
categorically (part numbers could have changed for an entirely different
reason), but it would tend to suggest that the lenses on the '00 are
different due to the different roles of each headlight.




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