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Lighting on most stock motorcycles runs anywhere from barely adequate to completely useless. Adding auxilliary lighting is one of the first upgrades that many owners do with their bikes.

Choosing a lamp

In order to properly choose which lamp will work best for you, it's important to consider the type of driving that you do. There are three primary reasons for wanting more light:

Increasing conspicuity - making it easier for other motorists to see you, any time of day or night

This is easy to address - pretty much ANY additional light you put on your bike will increase your conspicuity. Some lighting systems from other vendors are pretty much useful for this purpose and no other - but all of the PIAA lamps available here will also meet one of the following criteria.

Nighttime performance - making it easier for you to see the road at night

All of our light kits are available with at least one option for nighttime driving improvement. This is the most popular selection for motorcyclists, as most of us have more opportunity to ride at night than to ride in the fog. PIAA lamps are ideal for nighttime use, because most of them cast a perfectly round beam. Most other lamps are designed to give an oval or rectangular pattern, putting more light to the sides than up into the air. This is appropriate for a car, but remember that cars don't lean into corners! With a patterned lamp, when you lean into a corner all of your light is going straight into the ground and up into the sky - there is nothing to light your way into a curve. PIAA driving lamps, by offering a beam that puts light out equally in the vertical plane as in the horizontal, will light your way through the Twisties just as well as on a flat highway.

Foul weather - improving both your view and others' ability to see you in bad weather

What makes a fog lamp? Many drivers think that any lamp with a yellow bulb is a "Fog lamp". Actually, the color of the bulb has very little to do with a lamp's foul-weather performance. Fog lamps have a wide, flat beam that casts no light upward, where it would be reflected back into your eyes by water droplets in the air. Unfortunately, for the same reasons that many driving lights don't work well on motorcycles (as explained above), fog lights have a limited usefulness as well. They work fine when the bike is driving straight-and-level, but as soon as you bank into a curve the effectiveness drops dramatically. For this reason, we generally recommend that riders choose fog lamps only as their second set of auxilliary lighting, after they have added driving lamps. There may well be exceptions (Seatlle riders, perhaps), but as a rule of thumb stick with the driving lamps.
PIAA 004-series Driving Lamps
PIAA 004-Series Powersports Lamp Sets are compact lamps with 35W power draw per lamp, so you can run them at all times without danger of overloading your bike's electrical system. Also available in a stouter 55W Automotive version for mor light.  
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PIAA 005 Driving Lights
The PIAA 005 Powersports lamps not only perform well; the brilliant chrome finish also makes them a great looking accessory on your bike. The 30-deg driving pattern focuses the light onto the road ahead of you, and the H3 35W=70W Xtreme White bulbs give excellent nighttime performance.   		$324.99
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PIAA Powersports 1100X Driving Lamp Kit
Hands-down, the PIAA 1100X Driving Lamps are the best performing light on the market of their size. These lamps are barely 2-1/2" in diameter, and the egg-shaped housing allows the lens to be even smaller. This makes them ideal for hidden, under-fairing mounting locations. The 55W=85W Star White dichroic bulbs cast a 35-deg cone of light, bright enough to out-shine your high beams but still wide enough to see animals on the side of the road. This is the most popular motorcycle light we've ever had, and the new, improved powersports wiring harness makes it easier to install than ever before.   		$284.98
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PIAA Powersports 1400X Fog Lamp Kit
Generally speaking, we recommend that motorcyclists stay clear of true fog lights like this PIAA 1400X Fog Lamp Set. The fog pattern is very wide and flat, which only works well when your vehicle is level. You lose a lot of lighting effectiveness in the turns on a motorcycle due to the lean of the bike. There are exceptions of course, some parts of the country have enough bad weather that the choice is either fog lights, or no lights. The 1400X's small size (3-1/4" x 2-1/16", including mounting foot) make them a great choice.   		$234.99
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PIAA Powersports P1000-C Driving Light Kit
The PIAA Powersports P1000-C Driving Light Kit is designed with cruiser style motorcycles in mind. The smooth oval shape and brilliant chrome finish look great on a shiny bike, and the tight 18-deg driving pattern gives maximum performance from the 35W-70W Xtreme White bulbs, which are low enough draw that they won't cause problems with your charging system.   		$322.40
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PIAA 510-series Lamps
PIAA 510-Series Lamps are available in Automotive and Powersports versions. The main difference is current draw - the Automotive lamps have 55W bulbs, and the Powersports have 35W. This can be an important difference; many bikes don't have the charging system capacity to handle higher wattages. The ATP (All-Terrain Pattern) is a 40-degree, bottom weighted pattern that lights the area directly in front of your bike as well as off in the distance; perfect for off-road or dual-sport bikes where you need to be able to see debris, rocks, etc. close up but still get good light on the road at higher speeds. Approx. 4" diameter.  
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PIAA Powersports 540 Driving Light Kit
The PIAA Powersports 540 Driving Light Kit is for people who want a little bigger light than the 510's - the 540's are 5" diameter. 55W=110W Xtreme White bulbs give excellent performance.,   		$319.95
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PIAA Powersports 520 SMR Lamp Kit
For someone who wants a BIG light, the 6" diameter PIAA 520 SMR might be just the solution. The Super Multi-Reflector directs its powerful driving beam pattern without the need for lens fluting, thus enhancing the performance and appearance of the lamps. 55W white bulbs.   		$324.95
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PIAA Powersports 520 Lamp Kit
The PIAA Powersports 520 Lamp Kit has large, 6" diameter lamps and features a high-performance 85W Crystal Ion (yellow) bulb. You'll need a heavy-duty alternator, like the one that comes on BMW's R1100 and R1150 models, to use these lamps.   		$307.37
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PIAA Powersports 525 Dual Beam Lamp Kit
I've had a set of automotive PIAA 525's on my Jeep for a while now, and love them. Problem was, they couldn't be rotated to mount from above, so they weren't practical to use on a bike. Now, the PIAA Powersports 525 Dual Beam Lamp Kit solves that problem. Mounted from above or below, these lamps perform double duty - a 60-deg wide Crystal Ion (yellow) low beam, and a 30-deg Xtreme White high beam in one lamp. Includes dual-function switch.   		$546.95
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PIAA Powersports 910 Driving Lamp Kit
Back by popular demand, the PIAA Powersports 910 lamps - long a favorite of "Iron Butt" long-distance riders, have been refitted with lower draw 85W=130W bulbs to better match the lamps to a wide variety of motorcycles. The die-cast aluminum housing is rugged, and the clean black shape gives a solid look to a great performing lamp.   		$379.95
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PIAA 600 HID Driving Lamp Kit
For the ultimate in lighting brilliance, nothing beats HID (High Intensity Discharge). The PIAA HID 600 Lamp Kit is the type of lighting used on high-end luxury cars from BMW, Cadillac, and Lexus, and is now available for your bike. The system draws a paltry 35W per side but puts a tremendous amount of light on the road - far more effective than any incandescent, halogen, Xenon, etc. traditional bulb system.   		$1,199.98
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