I wound up buying a used small enclosed trailer. The registration rules here in Tennessee are lenient and you never have to renew if you restrict your travels to in-state. I pay the $18.50 a year so I can go wherever. I wound up using the trailer much more than I ever thought I would for lots of stuff. The bike is covered during travel and I have a safe place to lock it up when I’m at a hotel. Lots of room for tools and cleaning supplies, too. My wife loves the extra room for suitcases/food/coolers etc..
The factory headlight will get ur ass killed. I love the Eagle headlights mentioned earlier in this post. The lifetime warranty by itself sells me on’em. They have an oval light that is plug and play for ur bike but doesn’t include a halo. For this reason I chose to go with the cheaper LED you see sold on Ebay, Amazon, and through Estek Customs ( I purchased through Estek and had no issues ). This light has the H4 connection already so you don’t need a conversion harness, is oval so you don’t need an adapter to mount it and has the halo you want. On top of that the halo is wired separately so you can choose if you want it to come on with the hi or low lights. That being said it is a Chinese piece so that itself is enough to turn off a lot of the guys on this forum. It comes with a 1 yr. warranty. I’ve had it for pushing 2 yrs. with no issues. It is MUCH brighter than factory and specs out at slightly lower than the Gen 3 Eagles. The beam is well focused and allows me to ride at night without taking a Xanax first. Much safer. If u decide to go with this light know this...it comes with instructions from Estek that tell you to reverse the wires going to the hi beam connection or you will blow fuses. Don’t do this. After blowing 2 fuses I figured out the instructions are outdated and an apparent attempt to correct a flaw from the factory where they hard wired the light wrong in earlier units. They corrected this at the factory later and didn’t change the instructions. Scared you off yet? I really don’t regret buying it and if it goes out tomorrow I can’t complain. Halo is cool and I get a lot of compliments on it. It does have exposed cooling fins on the back and that bothered me at 1st, till I saw the factory LED headlight on the new Breakout which looks bout the same. If it DOES go out I’ll be looking at the Eagle units and have a decision to make. This is probably clear as mud but I hope it helped.
