Baja Designs XL Pro Light Installation And Review | The Light Is Awesome But Mounting It Is Awful

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Today I'm installing arguably one of the best lighting systems that you can buy for your dirt bike. Baja Designs of course makes a ton of different lights for all makes and models of off road vehicles including my 2010 KTM 300 xcw. You might say that this is a very expensive vanity project since I had the old TrailTech Cyclops headlight on my bike but lets be honest, that thing is about as ugly as a headlight can get. So today I am installing the Baja Designs XL Pro headlight which is a four bulb, 3500 lumen headligh. This is a plug an play solution that utilizes the stock headlight shroud to mount the light. This is really nice becuse it allow you to route the brake cable where it was origionally intended, unlike the TrailTech where the cable got all bunched up. Installation is prety straight forward since there are only two wires that plug into the stock harness. Where it all started to unravel for me was getting the headlight shourd lined up so that you could point the light down the trail rather than 45 degrees up in the air. Despite having made a great headlight, Baja Designs completely dropped the ball with the mounting system. They included a couple of brackets which are a complete joke and don't actually hold the headlight shroud in place for any more than a few bumps on the road. This is completely dissapointing and as far as I can tell there are no aftermarket solutions for bikes that are a little older like mine. I ended up making a solution with a 3D printer that lets me tip the light further forward in the shroud. This still isn't very sturdy since the mounting tabs on the inside of the shroud are likely to brake if you crash but at least my light is pointed in the right direction now.

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