If you ride in the dark (ever), you’d be wise to add some additional lighting to help guide your path at night.
The KPM 200’s front headlight is fine for daytime riding, but leaves a lot to be desired at night. The high beam is bright, but doesn’t do a great job lighting up the road, particularly in very dark areas.
Amazon, and various other retailers, sell a tremendous variety of different aftermarket light options — basically anything to meet your budget, style and lighting needs.
How to Install
The easiest way to install new lights, and have them switch via the bike’s light switch, is to draw power from the main headlight. If you wire the new lights in parallel, they’ll get plenty of juice and not draw too much power to strain the existing wiring or lighting.
In my case, I created a wiring harness to plug in between the existing headlight’s harness. The lights I purchased have a ring of daytime LEDs, and much brighter main lights that come on when I turn on the high beams.
Parts Used
- “Angle Eye” lights from Amazon
- Fork Mounts (also Amazon)
- 2.8mm pitch connectors
- Wire (16 gauge)
Wiring Steps
- First, add the mounts to the fork tubes. These mounts from Amazon fit the front tubes perfectly and included rubber strips to protect the bike’s finish.
- Next, create a wiring harness for the 3 wires (low beam, high beam and ground) using some 16awg wire and some 2.8mm pitch connectors (which match the connector inside the light.)
- Wire the connectors (as shown at left) using 3 x 4″ (100mm) pieces of wire to maintain the existing headlight connections, and 3 x 16 inch (400mm) wires (or whatever is appropriate to your light location) connected to one connector that will be attached inside the headlight.
- Next, remove the stock headlight. There are two plastic push-pins and 3 screws to remove (two behind the light housing, one underneath) — you’ll need to move the handlebars all the way right, and all the way left, to remove them.
5. With the headlight removed, plug in your custom-made harness, and run the wires back out to the new lights. Alternatively, you can wire the new lights to your harness first, then sneak the new harness in through the back of the headlight box.
Now, run the wires to your new lights, and give them a test. If you connected your lights in the manner above, they will only light when the bike is running! Best so as not to unnecessarily drain your battery.
The end result looks pretty good. And with these lights in particular, they look a lot like they came with the bike!
4 Comments
Todd Dennis · November 6, 2023 at 11:05 am
I tried this mod but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. The harness I made gets.power to the original headlamp, but is only the halo and bright bulbs that are lit up. The electronic cluster verifies this having the heights icon showing. Since the normal bulbs are not working or getting power my new auxiliary lights are not receiving power. Not sure how I could have messed up the harness so bad. I looks like the correct wires are being wired up in the harness. Thoughts….thanks.
admin · November 7, 2023 at 7:38 am
I’d start by removing the wires from the auxiliary lights. Just ensure your main lights are working as expected. Then use a multimeter to verify you’re getting good ground and the right wires connected. Who knows with these bikes, they may have changed the wire colors.
Todd Dennis · November 10, 2023 at 7:06 pm
I finally got everything working… used a 2 lead harness from Amazon. Easy peasy and a dedicated switch… looks great. Crash bars going on tomorrow.
admin · November 10, 2023 at 7:12 pm
Nice!