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One thing you might want to consider is this little jobber.



I had a look at that before I built my own LED taillight. It's a good module at a reasonable price, but my main objection to it in our bikes is that it doesn't offer any licence plate illumination. I considered also getting a licence plate frame with LEDs to light up the plate but figured that was all getting too silly, so I designed my own LED taillight that also does the plate.

Mine doesn't flash on brake light (yet! I'm working on that) but you can get external flasher modules that'll work. It's a simple circuit to build and there's a "howto" on my website for version 1.0. I've since changed the design twice using the funky HyperFlux LED's that're used in the KLR650 light so it's much smaller and neater, and I'll be writing up a "howto" for that soon too. Should cost you under US$40 to build and take about 3 hours with a soldering iron.

Matt

Matt Electronic mods for TBA/SM!