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Has anyone seen u-tube videos of export FW's. The 7 inch headlight has a chrome covering the lense and instead it has wide, flared arms supporting high- low beam spots. Must have something to do with width of the lights versus a single light on something of the FW's width. But they look kind of neat, but I bet they would be more useful than the old RK style spots if you could still use the center 7 incher as normal. Bet they would sell here as several have asked what brand they were.
This light configuration has to do with the fact, that a trike is a multitrack vehicle and this has to be shown in the frontlight configuration.
This means, that it is illegal to install a light in the middle, also illegal to install a not functional light only for the better optic (every installed light must be functional, what brakes the first law). I plan to replace the chrome disk with a airbrush fake head lamp ;-)
Anyone know the part numbers for the export light configuration?
Garry i can't help on your question , But i can welcome you to Trike-Talk..:wave4:
[COLOR=#333333]Having checked the Ministry of Transport (MOT) regulations for the UK (which pre-Brexit would be identical to EU (European Union) regulations), any trike over 1300 cm (one metre thirty centimetres) has to have two separate headlamps capable of dip and full beam. As the Freewheeler is 1400 cm wide, it has to have two headlamps. The regulations explain the maximum and minimum distance between them, as well as height above the road.
However, the regulations say that only "mandatory" (compulsory) lights should be examined for functionality, so an inoperative central headlamp would not be checked, so I feel that they would not be illegal. It is unclear if a functioning central headlamp working with the twin headlamps would be legal or not. Perhaps someone can answer that question for European Union model Freewheelers (or any other twin lamp trikes)?
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This may or may not be related. When I was stationed in Germany in the late 90s, a buddy got pulled over on his Road King for having 3 lights on the front. (The headlight and the 2 driving lights). They told him that the only vehicle that was allowed to have 3 headlights was a train. :Shrug: