Accessories from Italy, Spain and eBay

[tallpaul]

Looking very good bosnjo! I especially like the mirrors. I can feel my wallet getting twitchy.

[bosnjo]

Very cheap mirrors, got the pair on eBay and have just ordered one more pair as a backup:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110977150622?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Extenders here (pair):
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Black-Side-10MM-Mirrors-Riser-extend-adapter-For-Honda-Suzuki-Kawasaki-/290736245372?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts_13&hash=item43b13b0a7c

[tallpaul]

Not just the mirrors, the whole bike!

[SimonW]

Where are the lights from bosnjo, and are they any good? Where did you wire them into?

[petestrom]

Great looking bike particularly in red.  

[bosnjo]

Where are the lights from bosnjo, and are they any good? Where did you wire them into?

Lights I've got on eBay cheap, 6 months ago but have never installed them on my Glee. They have Cree LED's, 4 in each light and are extremely bright so I can't use them at night. They make excellent DRL's during a day and I noticed that cars are moving away when I'm splitting lanes, much more then before I've put them on. I'm being noticed in their rearview mirrors so I'm noticed more by incoming traffic. I installed them for safety reasons and I'm pleased to see they really do the job.
Wired them on rear light through relay that powers them straight from the battery, with handlebars switch. They are 12W each. Just ordered heatshrink in black to wrap them because they don't look good in silver but not sure yet if I'm going to do it. Anyway, I sprayed their brackets with satin black because they were easy to sand down to remove the shine and hold the paint. As the lights themselves are shiny silver with the body like heat dissipator they were impossible to sand down so I couldn't spray them black.
Here is where they came from:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321170792134?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
I made little 25mm light bar using mirror brackets for 25mm handlebars. Made 2 little "L"  brackets and one "U" bracket, bolted them on the top of the mirror brackets (where mirror is supposed to enter), then bolted 2 of them below indicators nuts and middle one below the nut that holds the horn. It took long time for measuring but it was quick to make it.

[SimonW]

Thanks. Why can't you use them at night because they're too bright? Nice job with the bracket  

[bosnjo]

After installation, I took the bike out of my garage at night with lights turned on. Stepped away 20 meters from the bike. I positioned my eyes more or less on the hight of incoming drivers eyes and bike's LO beam was visible but not blinding. LED's were so blinding that I had to turn my head away quickly. After that I needed quite a few minutes to recover my vision as I was almost blind. So no way using them at night. Did the same test during a day. At distance of 100 meters, on sunny day, they were very visible. Actually, you see those light before you see the bike. Third test was side-by-side my bike and my car. My car has DRL LED's. The brighness was the same between the car and the bike. The car, beside the lights, was visible, as it's huge object compared with the size of the bike. From the bike, I could see the lights only but almost not a bike itself.
So, for me, testing those lights in sake of safety was done. I guess all of my future bikes will have those lights.

[Juvecu]

Sounds like you'd have to wire them in with the high beam if you wanted to use them at night.

[bosnjo]

Yes Juvecu, that is true. But then, they'd loose their purpose of being DRL's, and that is what I installed them for. On the other hand, they simply don't have the "beam". It means, there is no beam going out of them pointing somewhere. They spread the light all over.
Mathematically, it seems impossible but in practice it's different. They won't illuminate much more then 5 metres ahead of you at night, so, much less then LO beam, let alone HI beam. But, if you step away from the bike like 100 metres during a day, you don't see that LO beam is even on but you see perfectly strong DRL's.
If you want something to assist your HI beam, there are many other types of Cree lights that include lens for compressing the light in one beam and are built for the purpose.