Over the last two years, I have seen remarkable interest in the 2-wheeler lighting business. At DVN events, major-name suppliers have presented 2-wheeler lamps – such as Valeo at Detroit in 2025, and Mind at Munich in 2024. We have more and more DVN members from the 2-wheeler world: TVS, Hero, Harley-Davidson, Honda, BMW, Ducati, KTM, Bajaj, Suzuki, and Ola have been attending DVN events, and major 2-wheeler lamp makers are DVN members – Fiem, Uno Minda, Lumax, Varroc, Neolite, and other global suppliers.
In India, the 2-wheeler lighting market is on a valuation path similar to that of passenger car lighting; DVN’s estimate is USD $1bn in 2030. That really shows the importance of the 2-wheel lighting business there, and India isn’t the only country so situated.
With intent to better understand this sector of the mobility lighting business world, DVN went to the EICMA motorshow last November – the biggest in Europe, with over 730 exhibitors and around 2,000 brands from 50 countries.
As in lamps for vehicles with four (and more) wheels, 2-wheeler lamps have totally switched to LEDs, with increasingly advanced technology and technique: front and rear signature lighting, AFS, even ADB, sequential animation, projections on the ground – all familiar in the car-truck-van lighting realm, and now very much a part of the 2-wheeler world as well. Lighting on motorcycles can become a display, too, as on the LetBe Mecha or Royal Enfield Flying Flea electric.
For headlamps, we’re seeing reflector and module solutions with lamps fully integrated into the body. Clearly, headlamps are no longer off-the-shelf components attached to the bike, though that kind of evolution is still lagging in motorcycle rear lights.
Headlamp price range is between €15 and €120, while rear lamp price is between €5 and €25. As in the car industry, volume is an important factor; some lamp business can be super important, with 100,000 or 200,000 lamps per year for a single motorbike design.
Feel free to read our full EICMA 2-wheeler lamp report. Meanwhile, in this week’s DVNewsletter you’ll get to read about my visit to Fiem, one of the world’s leading 2-wheeler lighting companies. I had a most interesting discussion with Fiem Italy’s Head of Design and Development Giuseppe Coppola.
Now, the DVN team are focusing 100 per cent on our event next week in Munich. See you there!
