Probably dumb question about lights on CBR

I picked up a new (to me) CBR600 on Saturday and drove it home. I've ridden
into work today and a thought has occurred to me - I don't know how the
lights work for my journey home later.

The lights are always on - but only one of them. There is only one switch
on the handlebars that seems to be for dipped and full beam. How do I put
dipped lights on but both the front lights?

And yes, take the piss out of me all you want please - I probably deserve
it.

Tim

 

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You don't. That's the way they work.

Erm... OK, you smell and your mum dresses you funny.

How's that?

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If it's anything like Triumph, you fit a relay into a vacant socket.
You can thank the EU law makers for only giving you one light as
standard.


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Seems a bit daft to me that.

Tim

 

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The "logic" is that two headlights close together can (apparently)
appear to be a car much further away, IYSWIM. On a dark road in the
sticks I can see how that could happen, TBH.

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Or if it's a Ducati then the reg/rec can't handle
the juice to have both lights on at once.

 

Permantly on dipped beam, check.
High beam when you press the high beam button to on, check.
High beam off when you press the high beam button to off, check.

Everything looks okay from the riders side.

I've never actually bothered checking if high beam comes on both side,
but I've had loads of people say one of my front lights wasn't working
when on dipped. I laughed in their faces.

 

Either a bulb is gone or you can't. There were some models that were
"one eyed".

Get yourself an original name.

 

Well, yeah, certainly in the case of these bikes with widely-spaced
projector lights. I also recall once seeing a quad at night and
getting confused as to what it was and how far away it was.

IWHT that specifying, say, that the reflectors mustn't be more than
one radius apart would've sufficed, but that would perhaps be too
complex for their tiny minds to legislate. I like twin headlights,
both aesthetically and for the comfort of knowing there's a backup.