The headlight leveling device - 0

Hey! I have been bitten by DIY bug lately. Although I plan to do a lot but this one really entices me.

I hope you know I got a ride few months ago. I am having a great time with this one and it is a pretty nice riding bike as well.

I used this to ride to office along with a pillion, usually my sister. Towards the time we are home, it would be dark and I would have to turn the headlights on. Now, I had to tune their tilt for an optimal position for when I am riding with headlights on with or without the pillion. It is somewhat inconvenient when riding in the condition that the lights are not adjusted to. For example if they are tuned for pillion rider then without the pillion's weight, beam will focus too high. In some cases I feel that I need to focus more on the road to see the potholes. I think that is too much to demand from that bike but what stops us from demanding.

Adjusting headlight require to loosen a screw on the underside of headlight assembly, then slide the headlight to appropriate position and tighten the screw again. Needs few minutes, you have to get a tool and need to be off the road.

I thought, what if I can adjust them in a few seconds using some electronics while I am still riding it? Sounds cool doesn't it? Just like the one's we have standard on all cars.

So I have decided to give it some thought and find it pretty feasible with the skills and resources I have. I will discuss more on this soon.

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Monday arrives sononer than Friday!

"Monday arrives sooner than Friday!"

Sounds like a couch potato's punchline. But there is definitely a fact in that one. We are so busy in living the weekends that sometimes we just do not happen to notice when the weekend was over. Work refreshes me so living the week is also not much of an issue for me at the moment. :-)

The title should not lead you to believe that I have been partying overnights or hiking at 12000 ft or been into similar sort of stuff during the past two days. All I have been into is one, picking up the lost sleep which, it now seems have been overdone a bit :-) and second, attend to a heap of errands that has been piling up during the week.

One funny thing is that I wanted to clean the closet from so long and this time I had finally cleaned the closet. Fun part is that it is still clean, to mean literally, with nothing in it and a pile of what should be in there, sharing bed with me! he he...I have to fix this very soon! Glad that I at least attempted.

No. That was just for sake of humor. I am a pretty organized guy otherwise and also when I am playing unorganized guy :-).


Tomorrow I am headed to attempt an important pending task 'again'. This one has become a real pain in the 'neck' now (children might be reading this ;-) ). Well I am pretty cool and as long as this pending task does not seriously affect me, I am okay at trying again and again. What is this enigma I am talking about? That is a whole story and I will get back to it some other time if I get this one right. People close to me, make your best guess and you got it!

So! Wish me luck and wishing you all good night. Enjoy the week ahead.