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Makes And Models => Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ => Topic started by: dvdwin on April 21, 2016, 11:11:06 AM

Title: Take my money now.
Post by: dvdwin on April 21, 2016, 11:11:06 AM

I'm gonna throw this out there. I am looking for a manufacturer/idea for my FX. If you have a handle bar gaurds and have embedded a strip (5 or 6)  of LEDs for turn signal and daytime running lights. It would be two different colors (Amber for turn signal and white for DRL). How sick would that look and does anyone know of a company that offers this? If so, take my money already.

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: modeselector on April 21, 2016, 11:26:47 AM

Easy to make your own to hand guards of choice or buy the Highway Dirtbike set.

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: ElectricZen on April 21, 2016, 12:19:12 PM

Admore lighting has the LED strip for hand guards.  I'm considering them myself. 

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Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: Testpilot1 on April 21, 2016, 04:00:17 PM

Relevant thread

http://electricmotorcycleforum.com/boards/index.php?topic=5715.0 (http://electricmotorcycleforum.com/boards/index.php?topic=5715.0)

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: LiveandLetDrive on April 23, 2016, 08:54:07 AM

12V LED strips are easy to find and trivial to wire in.  Amber and white in the same strip would be tricky unless you used RGB strips or discrete LEDs instead.  I just whipped myself up some tail lights for the FX (before I wrecked it and trashed the forks amongst other things.)  Only reason I didn't do it in the front is I'm happy with the existing signals up there and they weren't getting torn off (riding dirt) like the rears were.  Supermoto and enduro-style bikes might be niche enough to keep the market fairly small for hand-guards with signals.  About every kind of LED signal imaginable is out there for crotch-rockets!

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Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: PhreaK on April 23, 2016, 05:57:30 PM

Check out there: http://candr.com.au/brand/barkbusters/barkbusters-led-lights-for-handguards/ (http://candr.com.au/brand/barkbusters/barkbusters-led-lights-for-handguards/)

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: MrDude_1 on April 23, 2016, 06:00:03 PM

This is what ducati did with the hypermotard when it first came out. It's a cool idea, and looks/works well... but expensive if you smack them.

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: dvdwin on April 24, 2016, 08:05:44 AM

Quote from: MrDude_1 on April 23, 2016, 06:00:03 PM

This is what ducati did with the hypermotard when it first came out. It's a cool idea, and looks/works well... but expensive if you smack them.

Very good point.

Title: Re: Take my money now.
Post by: PhreaK on April 25, 2016, 10:00:06 AM

I'd beg to differ. I picked up a hypermotard a couple of weeks ago. The first thing I did was to fit some guards with integrated lights.

When you bin it damaging an indicator and bending a clutch / break level isn't uncommon. Add to this scraping up your bar ends (or damaging the throttle tube if you're running the stock Zero grips). At least this was it's just a single piece to replace.