LED daylight running lights on handguards

[gipsymagpie]

Hello mate,
below, just a few adjacent questions, inside the quoted text (in blue) :

The positaps are as described above. A very fine pin taps into the wires. The wires are 99% intact after using and removing posi taps with no ill affects. The wires look a little squashed which is where the 1% has gone. The light is the sidelight with an LED T10 bulb in. No problems with CANBUS. In fact every bulb on my bike is now either LED or HID except the spots. No CANBUS at all.

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[webgrecian]

As long as they are not mistaken for a turn indicator signal by a driver that only sees one side of the bike.

It doesn't matter, car/van drivers will drive into you whether they've seen you or not

 

[gipsymagpie]

Really?

Now why would car or van drivers go into you more than they might drive into a car? Because you're a motorbike.

So what? The motorbike is smaller and harder to see. Thus bung more lights on, make yourself bloody hard to ignore and therefore no collision just because "...I didn't see you mate" Funnily enough not had a scare since I HID'd up, and chucked on fogs and extra LED brake and side lights.

Still can't counter the true dumb white van man. So pleased I took one out last time I had a prang......

 

[gipsymagpie]

Update

OK, update after several months and hundreds of miles. they have been 100% reliable, still no canbus worries. The glue has held too which was a bit of a surprise. And no near misses but thats hardly conclusive! The painted outer orange LEDs have not washed off or degraded.

 

[wheelnut]

Now why would car or van drivers go into you more than they might drive into a car? Because you're a motorbike.

So what? The motorbike is smaller and harder to see. Thus bung more lights on, make yourself bloody hard to ignore and therefore no collision just because "...I didn't see you mate"

I suspect you don't really understand why you're more likely to have a car pull out on you. If a driver doesn't see you when you're in the danger zone, which is about two or three seconds away, there's a lot more going on than you can counter by riding round like a christmas tree.

But you obviously think it's safer that way so that's a good thing, right?

 

[gipsymagpie]

I suspect you don't really understand why you're more likely to have a car pull out on you. If a driver doesn't see you when you're in the danger zone, which is about two or three seconds away, there's a lot more going on than you can counter by riding round like a christmas tree.

But you obviously think it's safer that way so that's a good thing, right?

brings me back to my original point...he'll pull out on you if you were a huge truck by that logic. Anyway off topic...closed