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Home / Vehicles / LED Headlight for the Hawk 250 Enduro Motorcycle

LED Headlight for the Hawk 250 Enduro Motorcycle

John P.

May 21, 2016 By John P.

In the continuing saga of the Hawk 250 motorcycle mods I’ve been experimenting with, I just swapped out the stock headlight bulb for a MUCH brighter LED. Here’s the entire step by step process. And although I’ve got a lot of photos and things, the whole swap took about 10 minutes. And that’s with stopping to take photos. So this is a pretty easy process. (Also see the LED Tail / Brake light conversion.)

The headlight I went with was the OPT7 Motorcycle LED Headlight Kit w/ Arc-Beam™ Clear 6K Cool White – 40w 3,500Lm CREE (H4, 9003). It cost $60, and was basically a direct replacement. If you want to look for another bulb, you need to find a standard H4 style. These are the same bulbs used in car headlights.

Instructions

Ok, step one is to remove the existing headlight. To do that, you need to look on either side of the headlight assembly and you’ll find one screw. Remove them, and the whole assembly will pull forward nice and easy.

Hawk 250 Headlight Removed

Next, there is a big boot covering the back of the bulb that you need to just kind of pull back to reveal the goodies.

Hawk 250 Headlight Bulb Boot

Once pulled back, you can unplug the existing bulb by pulling the square black plastic plug right off the three posts on the bulb.

Hawk 250 Headlight Unplugged

Next, you need to remove the white plastic retainer ring that is holding the headlight in place. Just twist it and it should come right off.

Hawk 250 Headlight Retainer

At this point you can lift the old bulb out, and set it aside somewhere for nostalgia purposes. You’re stepping into the 21st century baby!

Hawk 250 Headlight Removing Stock Bulb

Ok, grab your LED box…

Hawk 250 Headlight LED Replacement

And inside you’ll find a couple of parts.

Hawk 250 Headlight New LED

You need to plug the LED light into the adapter cable.

Hawk 250 Headlight LED with Plug Adapter

Then you need to carefully twist the metal mounting plate off of the LED.

Hawk 250 Headlight Removing LED Ring

You’ll drop that metal mounting plate into the spot you removed the old bulb from.

Hawk 250 Headlight Inserting LED Ring

Then install the white plastic retaining ring back over it. Keep in mind that it has some words on it, and you’ll want those facing outwards, and the word TOP should be towards the TOP of the light fixture, as if you were looking at it from the front while mounted on the bike.

Hawk 250 Headlight LED Ring Mounted

And then insert the LED bulb into the center of all of that and twist it to lock it back in place. Keep in mind that there are two tabs on the sides. One is slightly larger than the other, so you’ll need to line them up with the appropriate slots as you insert the LED into the mounting base.

Hawk 250 Headlight Inserting LED

After you’ve threaded it into the hole and twisted it, you can look at it from the front through the clear plastic and make sure it appears seated properly.

Hawk 250 Headlight LED Locked From Front

At this point, plug your light into the stock harness, turn on the power to the bike and activate the headlights to make sure everything is working. Then, shove all the wires out of the way so you can screw the headlight back in place and you’re done!

This install will easily double the output of the existing lights. And the High and Low beams can be activated simultaneously. So it makes it nice and bright! Well, at least as much as could be expected given that this cheap Chinese bike’s light housing leaves a lot to be desired in terms of its ability to reflect and focus the light.

Hawk 250 Headlight LED

I was pleased with the outcome for $60, though I decided that I’m also going to add some additional driving lights somewhere on this bike so that I can really light things up. If I’m ever riding at night, I really want to be able to see everything around me as far, and clearly, as possible!

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Comments

  1. MotorBeam says

    May 21, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    You are spending so much, might as well bought a new and better bike

    • John P. says

      May 21, 2016 at 3:44 pm

      hehe Well, it might seem like it but everything I’m doing is sooo cheap! In total I will spend less than $2,000 on this thing, and the closest Honda would be way more than double the price!

      • Ben M. says

        November 29, 2016 at 11:39 pm

        I bought my Hawk 2 weeks ago and have really appreciated you’re guides on modifications. This bike really is great with a few minor upgrades!

    • charlie says

      February 10, 2017 at 4:51 am

      There is that special cult thing going on with us,Hawk owners.

    • Dan S. says

      April 29, 2017 at 1:34 am

      Even if he did spend $2000 like he states, the cheapest equivalent USED bike will still generally cost more, and be beat to heck and neglected. If the market around him is anything like it is around me, a 200-250cc enduro/super moto is at least 2500-3000 used for even 15 year old bikes that were put up wet – which then means spending hundreds more making them decent again. Plus, a lot of these upgrades are the same ones done by owners of ALL bikes, even the “better” ones.

      John, thank you for taking the time to publish this information for those of us who actually know, OWN, and appreciate these bikes. It is invaluable.

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