Choice of aux lights for GS?

[tbdomenz]

My recently acquired '97 GS is illuminationally challenged.
There's certainly enough choices for driving light additions but what's the consensus of the cognicenti? I want better lighting for 2 lane secondary roads and I want to be seen.
What's your choice?Opinion?Reasons?
TIA for all the info I'm about to receive.

[knary]

There is no consensus. :)

PIAA's: which one? I dunno. They're expensive.

Hella: There are more than a few choices from them. The FF100's are not well liked (they tend to fall apart), but the smaller FF50's are a good bye and I've liked them on my GS. I posted a thread a while back about them and the micatech light bar on my 1150GS. They work reasonably well and can be had for under $75/pair (I've seen them as low as $40).
Hella FF50 and Micatech lightbar on my GS (http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1100)
http://www.conary.org/bike/post/lights/IMG_1907.JPG

Lightforce:
These are very neat. You can change the focus of the light to suit your riding needs. You can find them and a bunch of other lights at the micatech site...
http://www.micatech.net/

If you're really interested in going all the way, you might want to take the Fish route...
http://baldy.smugmug.com/photos/5640-M-1.jpg

You might want to go digging into the threads on lights over on the ADVrider site (http://www.advrider.com/). LOTS of information there - and proof that there is no consensus.

[Emoto]

What's the consensus on where/how to mount aux lights so that they don't break the first time you tip over on the trail?

[knary]

Not on the outside of the crashbars. And I'm not joking. :)

Someone sells a mount(micatech?) that would allow you to use a massive light on the crash bars. Some folks have done it. The only problem, the lights are so big, that they'll be amongst the first things to hit.

Lights as I have mine mounted are really no more vulnerable than the tank itself. - the turn signals, tank, and cylinders will all hit before the lights.
http://www.conary.org/bike/post/lights/IMG_1913.JPG

[Emoto]

Nice looking installation, Scott. Is that a commercial mount, or something you made from bar stock?

[richc]

Scott and I traded some mail when I was looking for lights - he was using a Micatech (http://www.micatech.net/products.html) titanium lightbar. I went with exactly the same setup he has, it's nice.

[Jim Shaw]

Look before you leap, Jim Shaw.

I wrote a short treatise on my lighting plans for my GS on the R1100 thread before I realized this thread was here.

It says: Micatech titanium light bar, PIAA 1100s on Micatech mounts, and a future Touratech-Hella HID high beam kit. Pictures at 11.

Get thee behind me, Bambi.

Jim