{"id":1255,"date":"2026-04-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:00:00","slug":"leds-on-the-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/leds-on-the-hog\/","title":{"rendered":"LEDs on the Hog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3246.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3246.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3246-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LED passing and main lights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of the passing lamps on my motorcycle burned out. These lights are not required &#8211; just additional accessories. But still. I like to have maximum light flowing in front of me giving every other box driving fool the best chance of seeing me and not running me over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought to myself, <em>I should take this opportunity to replace them with some LED lights<\/em>. Brighter. Lasts longer (or so they say). Not too expensive. Amazon had nice pair for around $13. Installed them and they worked and looked great! Except for one thing. Like George Costanza coming out of a cold pool, those LED passing lamps made my halogen bulb feel inadequate. Look at that shit! Ain\u2019t no way I can ride around looking like that.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_2026-04-10-142824-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_2026-04-10-142824-1.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_2026-04-10-142824-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This won\u2019t do!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My next thought was, <em>guess I\u2019ll use this opportunity to upgrade my main headlamp to LED<\/em>. Gulp! $150? Once again I opened my wallet and placed that order. Arrived last night. Easy little pull and swap.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3245.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3245.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3245-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Much better!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Not only does it make me more visible, but what a difference it made when riding in the dark. Especially for my aging eyesight. It ain\u2019t what it used to be. Glad I did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swapping out my passing light Halogens with LEDs seemed light a great idea. Until they made my main headlamp look like shit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"LEDs on the Hog","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[673,669,672,671,670],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hog","tag-george-costanzas-small-dick","tag-hog","tag-led","tag-lights","tag-motorcycle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_3246.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}