Preferred Brake Light Bar Farkles

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$149?

Looks like a $8 Pep Boys bargain bin clearance sale part...


We already have a nice large tail light- so many of us put a simple brighter LED bulb in it that flashes a few times upon activation.

I also wouldn't trust a car driver to realize that half of that trucker garb blinking would mean a turn signal in any given direction.

I personally also threw a set of LED rings into my '13 blinkers that light up red when I brake...but normal orange when on...and brighter orange when blinking.

Was once riding behind a friend and when he braked, a pair of extra lights came on. THAT grabbed my attention. Have been a fan of extra normally dark brake lights ever since.

Yes, it was expensive but works well - have not YET been rear ended. (Turn signal flashing is nothing that excites me either.) Bought occasional wrecked parts bikes throughout the years. MANY of these had been rear-ended.

Your idea to add LED rings into your blinkers sounds like a good way to add normally dark bulbs to light up when braking! Can you get these to pulse?

I have replaced the tail/brake bulbs on my bikes with brigher LED bulbs, simple enough.

Since I have Givi top box mounting plates on all of my bikes, I have this setup on all of them as well. This is a Truflex 45-LED strip tucked under the rear of the Givi mount plate, attached to simple brackets I mount under the rear of the Givi plate. Since the light bar is flexible, it bends to the slight V-shape of the rear of the plate. Wired to the brake light through a simple two-dollar GS100A brake light flasher module, that flashes a few times before going solid. They make these light tubes with integrated brake/turn signal options, but I just use a solid red as a brake light only. Bright as heck.

It puts an added brake light up high, above the normal brake light, more in sight line with whatever is behind me. Plus it's clean and unnoticable when you look at the back of the bike.

https://www.customdynamics.com/red-led-t...ed-housing

Nice idea. Not sure about riding with a top box, yet like the way your idea could be adapted to any luggage rack. Inexpensive too!