Brake lights. Tail lights. Rego plate illumination.
The original combo was hideous.
Big and bulbous and anything but subtle.
When I cut the seat down for the first time, it never improved my mood when I looked at it.
I tried a couple of relocations on for size, but that didn’t help either.
So it was eBay time again. I found a little brake/tail combo that came with a rego plate holder. Sweet. I mocked up a little cowl shape, but decided that would be a little bit too “café” for my current thinking (I was leaning more “brat style” by this time).
The wiring went into a cable tube, very neat, and I was relatively happy until I realised that the difference between the tail light and the brake light was about 2% brightness.
I had a couple of eBay LED lamps hanging around (I had thought to use them as headlights at one stage) so I added some red plastic to the lenses, and mounted them as brake lights. Much brighter, much safer feeling, and didn’t mess with the aesthetic.
A couple months later, I found a reflector at the hardware store, and chopped it up to make better lenses. The original tail/brake globe blew out, so I replaced it and rewired the tail light to be a tail light, decoupling it from the brakes.
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