Ah, Thanks Phantom that did the trick. For the benefit of anyone else without an English manual, mine is slightly different to yours:
- 'select mode' screen on the dashboard display
- press and hold LH stalk button
- press LH stalk button to scroll down, RH stalk button to scroll up
- press and hold to select 'illumination', do the same to select 'manual'
- there is now an extra dashboard screen - Illumination - where the level can be adjusted
Thanks for that, much appreciated.

We ordered an English manual three weeks ago, they told us it would be here within a week.
And yep, I'm loving the V-Cross too, so pleased I chose it. But with my mother in law up north of Khon Khan and our place near Buriram I'm putting a few KM on it. Might even get close enough to 10,000km on this trip to get the first service out of the way.

Then again, maybe I can talk SWMBO into an MuX in a few years for the smoother highway ride.

Cheers