Tail lights  By  william42 (Read 1,279 times)

On my first night ride a few weeks ago a guy pulled up next to me at a stop light, rolled down his window and said "Hey man, I ride too so I'm just sayin'- your tail light is really hard to see". I thanked him and thought about it all the way home. That dinky little tail light on the back of my dinky little scooter would be really hard to see until you got right up on my .

I did some Google searching for "super bright 12 volt LED light strips" and found a 5 meter roll for around 15 bucks. I ordered and got them two days later.

I cut the strip to a length that would fit wrapped around the sides and back of my trunk, soldered a length of duel solid strand 24 guage wire to the conveniently located copper solder points on the strip and tapped that wire into my tail lights. They can surely see me now!

But if that wasn't enough, and seeing as how I still had multiple feet of strip left, I cut another length that fit around my rear bumper and wired that strip into my break lights. I tapped both sets of wires into where the break and tail lights are. Conveinient and easy enough to do.

So when my key is on my trunk light strip is on and when I break the bumper LED's come on. I feel much safer now. So a big thank you to the unknown rider that thought enough about a fello rider to say something!