The finished product - in hopes to help reduce the ever popular: "I never saw him coming" factor.
The stock Triumph light bar was moved forward on two sections of angle iron, so as to preserve the integrity of the Memphis shield.
The new LEDs positioned at outermost portion of light bar are both running lights and signal flashers, and are visible to motorists approaching from the rear with rider aboard, giving me three large rearward red running lights, as opposed to one dinky tail light, in hopes that may keep a drunk or two from climbing my backside. The excess lamps (except for front signals circuit) are wired through the stock light bar switch, so I can shut off all the excess lamp bagagge when starting the engine. By using the flasher unit from superbrightleds.com, which fits perfectly into the factory socket and rubber boot, I needed no other modifications to make this work.
One note of minor interest - if one uses the handlebar end signal light wiring circuit, the front signal will alternate flashing with the rear signal, apparently from the way the front signals are grounded. If one uses the signal wiring from the wiring harness inside the headlight bucket, the front & rear signals will flash in unison. I opted to use the headlight wiring harness to drive the fronts. The quarters inside the headlight bucket are cramped at best, and with a two inch section of wire to graft into, making a solder gun and heat shrink work in there takes some patience, but isn't too hard to pull off. I think I only burned myself twice in the process.
The LED mounting bars are 3/8 thick radio antenna mounts made of heavy polished aluminum strap stock - around $10 with holes already drilled to perfect sizes. The upper amber lamps on the windscren are scavenged Triumph front signal lights, pressed into duty as running lamps. I'm toying with the idea of hole sawing the windscreen and placing the scavenged lamps within so as to illuminate the entire windscreen in amber at night. I do believe this would work, kind of like fiber optics, if you will. (I am a sick puppy, I know.) I'll be fitting some 3 watt LEDs into the running lights to ease up on the wattage requirements. The over all look is definately not to everyone's taste, but it works for an old fart like me. Arrive alive!
If Ol' Mr. J. C. Whitney himself could see this testament to electric gee gaw-dom, I believe it would bring a tear to his eye.
postscript -- The little doo-dads visible on the LED mount bars are deer whistles - The little black square things near the mirror mount stalks are wide angle mirrors - I told you I was a sick puppy.
Next project - combining 1" stainless U bolt clamps with Panavise mounts for sat radio and Valentine One implementation.
At $20 each, the Panavise cell phone mounts seem much cheaper than anything I could find labeled "for motorcycles."
http://www.panaviseonline.com/product.php?id=238
http://www.dxengineering.com/products.asp?ID=14
