Got the HyperLites rear running / flashing brake lites. Just now got them installed, they actually work (!)
At my age with the poor eyesight and sweat running down my glasses, and my trembling fingers, that's not
always a slam dunk!
I just got the 8 LED modules, maybe shoulda got the 16 LED modules. They're bright, OK, but they're small.
Course, was looking at them in the daylight, but still - Wonder how it would work to super glue just a flat piece
of colored plastic over them, to make kind of like a lens, just to make the "bright spot" larger?
But I've got them now, AIN'T gonna take that mess apart again!!
For the front, got some LED driving lights coming, one of the headlite relay kits and a Hella H4 xenon bulb.
That's besides the amber HyperLites running lights.
And a couple of handlebar mount rocker switches, one to independently control the driving lights, the other to
interrupt the power to the headlight relay (all inside the headlite shell) so I can turn off the headlight while cranking
the motor. Same place the headlite relay came from, black plastic with red rocker switch, 3/4" wide, have to mount
them a little farther in than I'd like, probly after the first bend in from the handgrips, but it isn't like I'll be having to
go to them all that often, esp the one for shutting off the headlight while starting.
For the crowning touch, I've got 32-LED bulbs for the turn signals, front and rear. Leaving the amber lenses
on, got clear bulbs. Figured the "bright spot" would be larger with the entire amber lens lit up rather than having
a clear lens and mostly just the bulb the real bright spot. Less costly that way, anyway, no lenses to buy. Of course,
then also had to get those resistors to make the low-power-consumption bulbs work with the bike's electrical system.
They say to not mount them to anything plastic - easier said than done! Finally found a spot where I can hang a
small sheet metal panel from the frame behind the left trim cover - plenty of room between the trim and the frame at
that point, and nothing within several inches of that spot that should suffer from some heat.
Good thing I enjoy working with tiny wires in tight places!
Gonna wait till my relay kit and headlight bulb comes before I take everything apart, then do the front end
and the resistors for both front & rear signals all at once.
Even trying to do a good job but be a little careful with the spending, it STILL adds up! Not that far south of
$300 all told. And that's using the stock lenses - the clear ones are kind of spendy of course.
But I'll feel at least a little safer when I have to drive in traffic.
Hmmm, I suppose I should get a nice loud horn (and another relay kit for it, I suppose!) too.
Tell me the truth, does it ever end?
