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Old school off-road light
- Thread starter Williebeaman
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I have some chrome and black old school halogen KC units .
I wish there was a reasonably priced LED conversion for these types of lights.
I wish they made old school looking leds. The light bars look like A** to me. The old school hella lights always looked awesome to me.
My current set up, 2- 9 inch round led spots, 2 - 7 inch hellas, and a couple led pods kicked to the sides.
Hella Old Skool
On my second set due to weather/sun damage. I still like the look.
old vw mecahinic used to always tell me, "BUY GERMAN GLASS."
I’ve used them on chopper builds
ugh... i knew somebody was gonna say Cibie
I, uh -barf. -have a story... -barf.
i bought 2 badass 3 wheeler hondas about 12 years ago - both had been sitting, and neither were running...
#1) 1986 350X with now unobtanium larger plastic desert tank, extended swing arm, wider dura-blue axle... high compression piston, aftermarket "stage something" cam... and a custom light bar with 2 100 watt 7 inch rectangular dick Cepek off-road lights??? holy moly thats a lot of light bulb for a little honda!-the stator had been custom rewound to handle the electricity needed. And on top of the custom cage for those dick cepeks, was 3 round lights: red, blue, and amber. there were "dumont dune patrol" badge numbers on the sides of the tank. the seller's father had been an honorary patrolman in the dunes in the 1980s and 1990s - he used to run this mother of all 3 wheelers out in the dunes -chaising down the baddies and pulling them over for a ticket! that would be awesome, and hilarious! I had to have it! 500 bucks? sold.
then came the other bike... he started pulling the tarp off the back end...
#2) 1985 250x... or at least it USED to be!
-stretched rear swing axle
-wider rear axle
-stretched and taller frame... to accommodate the XL500 engine that was in it?????? !!! (and i thought the 350X would be a windowmaker!)
-the front fork tubes had been lengthened to pick the engine case up higher off the ground...
and the guy shows me a picture of his dad riding it... in the sand, front wheel off the ground, winning a drag race against a car/buggy with paddles and a blower on some kind of v8...
AAANND then the tarp came all the way off, and the franken500 had a similar custom light guard to the 350X, but with two pristine 7 inch Cibie Oscars in it...
by this time my head was swimming - too much bitchin old school awesomeness. keep beating heart! how much for the second bike? 800 for a package deal?
I had those things on the shitty little flatbed and headed home- immediately calling friends giving them the "you aren't gonna believe what i just found..."
1.5 hours home... all the way off the freeway... AAALL the way across town towards my house... and LITERALLY -SERIOUSLY - THE LAST LEFT HAND TURN INTO MY HOUSING TRACT
the LAST FREAKING TURN!
... i watched in the mirror, as the franken 500 rolled off the side of the flatbed, fell off... but still roped to the handlebars by one of the tie downs... wedged under the trailer tire like a doorstop... everything came to a grinding halt in the gutter. maybe 5 houses down the street from my driveway. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
i got out, looked at the bike all crunched under the tire, upside down... and that bitchin custom cage for the lights was flattened into the lights. amazingly the lenses had not broken, but the chrome housings were -barf... destroyed -gagg... lenses popping out -barf. Fu&% shart c*%% motherf^&%ER!
I saw what the Oscars were going for on eBay, and i just died... at the time people were bidding them up 400-500 bucks for a good used set? -literally dying inside at that point.
I called a retired friend in the high desert, told him about the bikes, told him I couldn't stand looking at the 500 after destroying the light assembly- "you want it? pay me the 300 i have into it, and i will freaking DELIVER it to you next weekend"
This still hurts to remember.
now, let us never mention the Cibie Name again!
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