Kisan Light Flashers

Kisan Light Flashers

Member Since 1999

To most of us who ride motorcycles everyday is a game, we play tag with the four wheel variety of motorist in a ballet of life and death on America's highways.

Some of us take it personally, some of us chalk it up to the experience of riding and the risk that goes with it. Kisan Technologies figured that enough was enough and as with anything inherently dangerous thought the time has come to level the playing field.

To wit, Kisan has developed the Pathblazer and the Tailblazer, headlight and taillight flashers for the rider who wants more safety with respect to lighting.

The idea is rather simple, take one headlight make it flash (it works for emergency vehicles right?) and increase your visibility. As with any product there is always a caveat, not every driver on the road will see you whether or not your headlight is flashing, some people are just born with an affliction most commonly known as "cranial rectal inversion" and no amount of warning is going to prepare you for them other than a clear head and to ride as proactively as possible.

Follow along as we install Kisan's headlight and taillight modulators.

The naked KLR, while all the body parts were out being shot by Line-X I figured this would be the perfect time to work on the bike.

Kisan's packaging is attractive and the instructions are quite easy to follow.

The Tailblazer is a deceleration warning device that plugs directly into your stock taillight receptacle. The Kisan bulb is one of the Halogen variety so it is considerably brighter out of the box. The rear bulb flashes it's warning that you are slowing down by pulsing the light.

It was more difficult opening the Kisan packaging than removing the 2 Phillips head screws than removing the lens.

It really doesn't get any easier than this, gently push in and twist the bulb to the left to remove it. I have heard from some other riders that they are not at that pleased with the dim color of silver paint inside the housing. Many of them either repaint the inside or glue aluminum foil in here (shiny side out) to brighten up the output. Now is a good time to do this.

This little Halogen bulb is roughly 4 times brighter than stock. Kisan also includes a replacement. The base is what all the drama is about, the bulb is replaceable.

Remember, dynamite comes in small packages too.

This is the important part of the install. unless you have been wearing gloves the entire time you have been handling this bulb you must wipe it clean of your fingerprints. Because the Halogen bulb is so much hotter than than stock the grease and oil from your fingers will actually cook on the glass causing the bulb to overheat and explode. Once you have installed the bulb, wipe it clean!

Now onto the Front!

The Trailblazer headlight modulator works when you turn on the high beams only. This allows you the option of where and when you want the lights to flash.

The Kisan headlight modulator has a pigtail with an "eye" on the end of it. This "eye" senses light and darkness thus allowing you to run your high beams at night without the headlight flashing.

With the front fairing removed (this is the laborious part of the job) you must remove these two 10mm bolts so you can gain access to the headlight.

The headlight plug comes off easily...

...and the Kisan modulator takes its place.

The Kisan modulator now plugs directly into the headlight plug.

Here is the eye I told you about, its hard to tell (depth wise) in this pic but the cord is fairly long and will allow for mounting virtually anywhere on the bike.

These two pieces come with the kit and will allow for mounting of the eye.

Hey, this looks like a good place.

I have noticed that people do tend to notice me more now from behind when I apply my brakes as the flashing red light really gets their attention.

The headlight flasher (Pathblazer) is definitely an attention getter too, when I come to an intersection it seems to me that I garner more than my share of looks. Good, bad or indifferent I don't care as long as they look.

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