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Posted by greenbarn
- April 06, 2015, 20:36:47 PMCould be wrong, but I don't think you would need a load equalizers, since you're keeping your original turn signals.
If you want more options, start doing some "vintage tail light" searches on Ebay and the like. There are a tons of repop vintage lights available - some of them pretty good quality.
Posted by DC
- April 05, 2015, 20:04:30 PMDo you think I would need a load equalizer with these?
After looking at these lights some more, I found some other differences. I didn't realize it, but after comparing these, the one with the two horizontal bars is actually larger.
Single Horizontal bar - 5-19/32" long and 2-7/8" wide (P/N 6063)
Double Horizontal Bar - 7-7/16" long and 3-7/16" wide (P/N 6059)
So I decided to make some rough paper mock-ups to see what they might look like. You can see from the pics, the 6059 (left) is way too long for the bags and hangs off the bottom into space. The 6063 just barely fits. It should be okay, once I glue in the cutting board stiffener.
Posted by DC
- April 04, 2015, 17:11:54 PMQuote from: Troll on April 03, 2015, 12:46:32 PMVery cool! That's definitely the vibe I'm going for.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- April 03, 2015, 13:52:45 PMNow Troll those look really nice and would look good on a set of bags.....
Posted by Troll
- April 03, 2015, 12:46:32 PMPosted by gdrudd13
- April 03, 2015, 10:59:40 AMYou should put some of the flexible LED lights on the back. they're thin, led so low power consumption, and they can be mounted pretty much anywhere and come in all sorts of lengths. Not an actual assembly, but probably easier to mount and gives you more mounting options. While not the cheapest, Custom dynamics has some very good ones that work well and are made to take the elements and vibrations that will be experienced on a motorcycle. I'm sure there are cheaper ones, but I don't know how they work or how well they hold up. I just know these do.
http://www.customdynamics.com/magicflex_led_accent_lights.htm
Posted by CDNRatMan
- April 02, 2015, 23:27:40 PMI put a LED plug and play into the tail light socket on my 800, and it is really bright. The small side marker type of lights would look good......
I might be able to get you a Radio Shack helmet and it has a light,......
Posted by DC
- April 02, 2015, 22:12:48 PMI started out to work on one project and it's snowballing into another.
I wanted to stiffen up my bags, since they are droopy. This happens with age. 
So I bought a couple of small cutting boards to glue in to the rear part of my bags. Then I got thinking. . . . I always wanted to have more visibility at night, so why don't I add some lights to the back of the bags and have them tie in with the mounting of the stiffeners?
That said, I've been looking and looking for some lights that are appropriate, not too gaudy, blend well with the rest of the bike, and are easy to install. I mainly want them as running lights, but if possible I could go with full run/turn/stop lights too.
So I've seen all kinds of light assemblies, but nothing is really grabbing me. Here's a sample.
I'm looking for something very bright and noticeable, not subtle accent lighting.
Any ideas?