| Me too. Well, I've never changed a main beam bulb, but have used the "*x*% brighter" dip bulbs from Halfords and they don't seem too bad to me.
You have to take the nose-cone off (on my bike anyway, not sure it's necessary on earlier models), but it's no big deal once you done it once or twice.
Make sure you note how many turns on the headlight unit adjuster screw when you take it out. | 
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