This is Duckling, my BMW F700GS, and yes, she's named Duckling because she's not the
most beautiful right now, but one day she will be. We're gonna try to make her look
better. I have this LED headlight. It should be just plug and play, pop it right in there.
Hopefully it'll update the looks a little bit and we'll have less of this face going on. Let's see.
So the first thing we're going to do is just take a T45 and just loosen that off.
And for the back there's just one thing to unplug.
Yeah, pinch and squeeze off. That's it. Maybe before we spend any more time on
this we should just plug it in and make sure that everything does in fact work correctly.
Ok, alright cool. As far as weight comparisons go, they
kind of feel about the same. This one just seems better balanced because it's way bigger. You'll
notice the little cooling grills on the back here. I did notice that there were special washers for
these. I'm going to run inside and go get them. It comes with these sticker things. The thing
is that the adhesive is basically garbage. That's not sticking at all. Ok so this is, uh,
pretty useless. This adhesive is terrible. So I'm probably going to put my own glue on the back and
just glue it in place. Good job, China. Ok so now they are lined up in place. Ok. Alright. Cool.
You may also want to put loctite. I'm just gonna see how that lines up first. Ok ready?
Not gonna lie, that looks pretty cool. I actually kinda... it's still ugly, don't get me wrong.
It's still living up to the name Duckling, but... this looks pretty bad ass. I kinda really like it.
Running light, I think looks really slick. Honestly I think it looks really cool.
I think I spent about, maybe $180 US, $220 Canadian on this, and actually I like it. I'm
going to test it on the street and let you know, but to me this is fantastic.
Ok so in the past when I've done a headlight video I've just did like a riding around,
and I don't think that the GoPro really captured a good comparison of before versus after,
so I'm going to do something different. I'm going to keep the camera on the tripod, keep the
camera settings in manual mode so it shouldn't be changing. I'm going to show you what the original
headlight looked like, and then I'm going to show you how the driveway with the LED headlight.
So for me this is a win, not only is it gonna draw a little bit less power theoretically
because it's LED, it is brighter although this did remind me that the original headlight is actually
not that bad but, the third thing is, visually, aesthetically, I know this is very subjective, but
I like the look of this a lot better than the look of the OEM headlight so for me the couple hundred
bucks that I spent to get a little bit better lighting but also to really appreciate the look
of my motorcycle more is worth it, but that is again, subjective, so let me know what you thought
in the comments section, if you think you like the original one better, if you like this better, if
it's worth the money if it's not worth the money. I'm very curious to hear what you guys have to
say. Thank you so much for watching. Hit subscribe for more F700GS / F800GS content and other just
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You guys want to know what my real favorite part of a video is?
Whenever I'm in the garage, she waits by the door for me. You're such a sweetheart. She's the best.