Originally Posted by ItsJustMe
Not at all the case for HID lights though. You can put together a perfectly good and not even ugly system for $200. Heck, $150 if you're willing to use a SLA battery, but what's the cheapest commercial HID system? $350?
It doesn't even take that much time. I don't think I put more than about 3 hours into it. I spend more time than that mowing the lawn every week in the summer.
The cheapest mainstream-brand HID is probably the
NiteRider Enduro. It's a helmet-mounted model that includes a 3.5-hour smartcharger. Right now it would be $240 with the 20%-off code.
On the downside, it's a 10W one, not 13W, and you'd need to get a NR bar mount to put it on the bike (unless you have one lying around, like Some People I Could Mention
).