[hpbcrillo]

I had a few motorcycles in Africa, and one came with a piece of yellow lexan velcro'd to the front of the headlight. I noticed as my friends would drive it, it was unmistakable from a long way around, and stood out from all the other vehicles on the road with regular white headlights. It is so different it really catches your attention.
When I got back to the states a couple years ago, I added yellow LED driving lights to the lower sections of the crash bar (so as to not obscure the front turn signals).
I carefully watch approaching drivers and especially those with their left turn signals on, and also drivers getting ready to pull out into my lane. It seems like they notice the yellow lights, and notice that I am a bike. Haven't had anyone turn in front of me, or pull out in front of me.
I think it is just one more tool to defensive riding on the bike. I make sure to adjust them down a little so they don't blind or irritate other drivers.
My new yellow led's are here and hope to install them on the Vulcan next week.
I feel they do a better job of getting other drivers attention without confusing them like a modulated headlight might do.
What are your thoughts on this? Thank you!

 

[Sabre-t]

I had a few motorcycles in Africa, and one came with a piece of yellow lexan velcro'd to the front of the headlight. I noticed as my friends would drive it, it was unmistakable from a long way around, and stood out from all the other vehicles on the road with regular white headlights. It is so different it really catches your attention.
When I got back to the states a couple years ago, I added yellow LED driving lights to the lower sections of the crash bar (so as to not obscure the front turn signals).
I carefully watch approaching drivers and especially those with their left turn signals on, and also drivers getting ready to pull out into my lane. It seems like they notice the yellow lights, and notice that I am a bike. Haven't had anyone turn in front of me, or pull out in front of me.
I think it is just one more tool to defensive riding on the bike. I make sure to adjust them down a little so they don't blind or irritate other drivers.
My new yellow led's are here and hope to install them on the Vulcan next week.
I feel they do a better job of getting other drivers attention without confusing them like a modulated headlight might do.
What are your thoughts on this? Thank you!

I am all in on modulated headlights. The number of pull outs and turns in from of me dropped from a couple per week to maybe a couple per year on the same commute after I added a modulator. Overall in the first 2 years of riding before I installed modulator, I had more pull outs and turns in front of me than the last 13 years combined.

Any (legal) lights that get attention, are great, though. Being low and wide like that makes them more noticeable and provides more visual clues to other on the road as to your distance and speed. Being something added beyond the required lights (as opposed to replacing a required light) allows you to place them like that and still be legal.