Two complaints follow Honda's side-by-sides around. The stock halogen headlights are dim enough that you slow down at dusk whether you meant to or not, and if you want turn signals — because your county requires them, or because you share trails with traffic — you are bolting a second set of lights onto a machine that already has lights. The Kemimoto LED Headlight with Turn Signal for Pioneer 1000, 700 and Talon 1000 solves both in one housing, and it fits a remarkably wide slice of Honda's lineup.
Four jobs, one light
Kemimoto's pitch here is consolidation. Compared with the OEM headlight, this unit is designed with four usage modes:
- Daytime running light
- Turn signal light
- Low beam
- High beam
That matters more than it sounds. Doing turn signals with add-on pods means more brackets, more wire, more things to snap off on a tree, and a front end that looks like it was assembled from a parts bin. Getting the signal out of the same housing as the beam keeps the machine looking stock and keeps the wiring count down.
Why LED and a convex lens beat a halogen
The unit is built from high-quality LED chips behind convex lenses, and Kemimoto is specific about what that buys you over traditional halogen headlights: superior brightness, better energy efficiency, and better heat dissipation. The first one is what you notice at dusk. The second one matters on a machine with a small charging system and a winch, a heater or a sound bar already drawing from it. The third one is why the light is still working in year three.
The lens is the underrated part. A convex lens shapes the beam instead of just throwing light everywhere, which is the difference between seeing the trail and lighting up the dust in front of you.
The housing is the part that lasts
The rear housing is precision die-cast aluminum. On an LED light, the housing is the heat sink — the LED itself does not fail from being on, it fails from being hot. Die-cast aluminum pulls heat out of the emitter and dumps it into the air, and Kemimoto rates the LED headlight lifespan at up to 50,000 hours. Put that in perspective: if you ran it four hours every single night, that is over thirty years of headlight.
It is also the reason a cheap plastic-bodied LED light looks identical on the shelf and dies in two seasons. You cannot see the difference in the product photo. You can see it in the spec.
Fitment — a genuinely wide list
Kemimoto lists this headlight for:
- Pioneer 700 and 700-4, 2014-2026
- Pioneer 1000, 1000-5 and 1000-6, 2016-2026
- Pioneer 520, 2021-2026
- Pioneer 500, 2015-2026
- Talon 1000, 2019-2025
- Rancher 420, Foreman 500 and Rubicon, 2014-2019
That covers most of the Honda utility and sport lineup from the last decade, ATVs included. Confirm your year, make and model against that list before ordering — the range is wide, but it is not universal.
Who should buy one
- Anyone who rides a Pioneer or Talon after dark and has quietly decided to just go slower
- Owners who need turn signals for road-legal or shared-trail use and don't want bolt-on pods
- Anyone tired of replacing halogen bulbs, or whose charging system is already stretched
- Owners running more than one Honda in the fleet — the same light fits a Pioneer 700 and a Rancher 420
Order it at SxS Outpost
The Kemimoto LED Headlight with Turn Signal is $199.99. It ships direct from Kemimoto's US warehouse with their standard warranty, and it is designed for a hassle-free installation with instructions included. See the rest of what fits your machine in the Honda Pioneer and Honda Talon collections, or browse the full Lighting lineup for light bars, cube lights and whips.