I’m currently off the bike and am using this time to pimp it a little.
My ideas at the moment are fairly simple - a tail tidy, removing the passenger pegs etc, but one mod I will need help/ advice with.
Instead of having indicators coming from the sides of my tail tidy, I thought it would be cool to have a strip of amber LEDs on the undertray (at the sides).
I’d like to attach the LEDs to the indicator circuit so that they function correctly as indys.
Does anyone know any ready-made LED strips that would suit this purpose? Or have any ideas/ suggestions?
Cheers.
I have included photoshopped versions of what I mean. The amber dots are the LEDs.
Or if you’re brave enough drill out the plastic and use individuals, I would recommend using the ultra bright ones - saying that they only have a small viewing angle think its 40 degrees. So if your not in the line of them you might not see them all that well.
Might be worth having a search for a pre-made flush mount unit? Also you may have to change your indicator relay to regulate the flashing.
Terry - I’m afraid I’m not brave enough to drill holes and use individual LEDs although that would be a decent, economical solution.
Lewis - They do look good, but I’m not sure about their worth and besides, the tail tidy I should be getting doesn’t come with the right kind of rear light; cheers though.
Well, I’m not the best electrician and I don’t want to alter the undertray forever - knowing me, I’ll want to sell the bike at some point
AFAIK, they come with end caps. Of course, I’ll have to drill one hole to accomodate the wire for them, but it should be fairly discrete.
This is the tailtidy I’m hopefully getting:
I’ll take off the indys and use them for the front, then add the strips - well, that’s the idea.
It’d be a lot easier drilling holes for the individual LEDs rather than the strips, the strips can be a proper ball ache if your gonna mount them on the inside of the unit so just the lights are poking through?
definetely worth the effort for the look rather than sticking them on, the bandit ones where hard because of the limited space within the light unit, but I think you could make it look really good on your tail unit with either individual LEDs (creating a bit more electrical work for yourself) or with the strips (needs a bit more time and effort when drilling)
Well, what I mentioned to Adam was that I didn’t want to do anything completely irreversible to the bike - I’m not sure about it as it kind of reduces the resale value.
I’m lazy/ not a proper tinkerer and want to get away with the best look for the price, so if I can get something that does the job (with more than a 40º angle) and that looks okay, then I’ll go for it.
I’d probably only fk it up if I started drilling and I don’t actually have the tools here in Spain - I don’t have a proper garage where you can do stuff either, just a parking garage.
If I went for a strip, I’d still have to drill a hole, but maybe only one per side,so I think I could get away with it
