That would be interesting project.
When I got my 2021 GS I made sure it was still available with standard LED indicators and rear light so was fortunate to get it like that. So, got my bike in January 2021 with standard LED rear lights. Few months later I was coming quickly behind slow moving GSA. That GSA was behind other slow moving car and, by my understanding, had no intention to overtake. As I was still at speed and there was no oncoming traffic, I decided to keep pressing on and simply overtake those two vehicles. In that very moment GSA started to brake. I could clearly see its 3 brake lights as he had that new system with brake lights incorporated into indicators. I kept on overtaking and just when I was almost beside the GSA, he started to turn onto a side road to the left (almost invisible to me). Attention, in the country where I live we drive/ride at the right side of the road, oposite of the UK.
Well, if I knew it was a junction, I would brake and not even think about overtaking.
The vehicle at the front of the GSA kept on going forward.
Even today I don't know how we didn't colide. It was so close and so sudden that none of us couldn't even react. We both stopped and I came back to talk to GSA rider and try to understand what happened. He also wanted to know why I wanted to overtake while he was turning left. I said I had no idea that he was going to turn and he said he had his indicator on.
Well, neither I was able to see his indicator with the brake lights on nor he thought I would start to overtake while he was indicating to turn. He did see me coming in his mirrors.
At least all ended well in the moment when so many unfortunate elements have joined. At the end of the conversation, the GSA rider said he loved the rear indicators with riding and brake lights and front indicatrs with yellow riding lights, since the day he purchased the bike. But, he said, few months into the ownership, he started to get worried about the brake light and indicator on in the same time because he was aware that they were hard to be distinguished. At the moment of our "almost crash" he didn't have that fact on his mind... We exchanged Facebook contacts and said goodbye to each other. Few months later he's sent me Facebook message with a lot of photos. He decided to change the rear lights so went to the dealer and asked about it. The only way, they said, was to purchase new rear indicators (without brake and driving lights) and after that the bike had to be reprogrammed. That was what he did. On the photos, I could see his rear lights are now the same as mines. Indicators are only indicators and the rest is in the main rear light (there was no need for new center rear light).
Now, if it can be achieved just by cutting the grey wire, I guess it's great discovery and many riders would do it on their bikes. I just don't know if it would throw fault code on the dash.
