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2006/06/09:
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It's tough getting a license plate and rear lights
on a bike with such a wide tire and short fender.
There's lots of the same kit with a license plate
combo taillight hanging way off the side of the bike,
which I guess matches the unnecessarily-wide open
primary also hanging way off the side of the typical
harley chopper. But for me the tire is wide enough, so low profile on the signals was important. I liked the symmetrical approach as well, so I went with LED mini bullets on either side. Yellow signals, red dual-function for the running/brake light. The fender is mounted pretty simply with a pair of bolts that screw directly up into the frame. Still to come is license plate lighting, probably courtesy of some standalone white LEDs if I can find some. |
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Turns out the LED brake lights have very little difference between the bright (brake) function and dim (running) function. Almost indescernable. (no wonder they're not DOT approved). So I grabbed a couple resistors to dim the regular function. There's very little current running through the LEDs, so it took a 300ohm resistor on each one (hidden inside the bullet) to dim it. |
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