Tyga kit headlamp aim

[Jinx]

Has anyone had problems getting the tyga headlamp to aim high enough? I haven't been able to set mine very high, even though they are at the limit of their adjustment. It went through the MOT with raised eyebrows and a few tsks from the tester, but at least he passed it. I'm putting it down to my bike's 10mm longer rear shock and nc35 forks, which are 10mm shorter than stock, pitching the bike on its nose a bit more.

I'm curious about whether the kit is any different on an NC29 with stock suspension?

[Gavin jap4]

not heard of any problems on stock bikes

[tygapaul]

I've got a stock NC35 with CR250 front end for maximum kerb mounting, and a Harley hard tail rear end to get that, you know, low cool look. I can't understand but the headlight still seems to be disturbing roosting birds in trees along my street at night instead of shining up the road like it should, even with maximum adjustment. I just can't understand why! My MOT tester said I should take up night shooting pigeons and asked if he could come along if he passed the bike

[tygapaul]

Sorry, that wasn't very helpful... Try slotting the holes where the meter stay mounts on the frame so the meter stay moves up more. If you can raise the nose a little here, it should help get the beam a bit more in the right direction. You will need to adjust slightly the other fairing points because there is a only a little flex in the whole fairing and moving it at one point in one direction will affect the other areas.

[Jinx]

I've got a stock NC35 with CR250 front end for maximum kerb mounting, and a Harley hard tail rear end to get that, you know, low cool look. I can't understand but the headlight still seems to be disturbing roosting birds in trees along my street at night instead of shining up the road like it should, even with maximum adjustment. I just can't understand why! My MOT tester said I should take up night shooting pigeons and asked if he could come along if he passed the bike

Yes, you're right, that wasn't helpful, it was rude. Openly attempting to deflect scrutiny of your kit by taking the piss out of your customers doesn't seem like good business sense to me. But then it's your reputation you're damaging, not mine. So I couldn't care less.

If you'd bothered to read my post properly, you'll notice I wasn't complaining or asking for advice on how to solve my particular aim issue, which I'd already said was aggravated by the changes I've made to the geometry. But thanks anyway for the one constructive thing you said.

If someone who has fitted a Tyga kit to their NC29 fancied answering my original question, I'd still be interested to hear about their experiences with the headlight aim.

[tygapaul]

Apologies, I was just pulling your leg about suspension changes affecting light beam! I'm sorry if it didn't come across that way.

Let me know if you need any additional help and I will see what else I can think of. Things that spring to mind if you still haven't painted the kit is to file the lower portion of the return on the headlight hole so it can protrude more out of the fairing. You may need to lengthen the adjuster slots underneath a little too and reduce the height of the two headlight mounting points where the springs go on so that the light sits further forward. This will effectively bring the lower part of the headlight out and therefore change the angle of the beam a bit higher.

Again apologies if my fist reply caused offense.

[Jinx]

Thanks for the apology, no harm done. Good points on the other things to tweak. So I take it on a stock bike the tyga headlight should aim directly ahead on full beam just like OEM equipment? Because the changes to my bike dropped the beam by only a few degrees on the original NC29 equipment, but it seems to be out by further than that since I fitted the Tyga kit. Maybe it's more noticable due to the different type of reflectors in the tyga and oem kits.