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Awesome post!  Thanks Leo!  Yeah this weekend when I get a little time to dig into it, I'm going to fuss with the electrical wiring and fix up the old gal.  I ordered a genuine LED brake light on ebay that should come in sometime later this week.  It's one of those buggers with about 40 tiny LED's all over it.  It's going to really brighten up the tail and brake lights.  Then I'm going to pick up some more LED strip lights and mount em up to the back trunk, and wire em up good and proper.  You all know how much I love to post pics, so I'll be sure and post a bunch when I've got it all done.

The new job is AWESOME!  Best job I've ever had.  I was lucky to get it.  It was a 1 in a MILLION stroke of luck getting this job.  It was like hitting the jackpot.  And best of all, I get to serve active military personnel and veterans.  I tried to go into the military back in 1988 and was stamped 4F and rejected.  So I never got a chance to serve.  So it kind of chokes me up now that I get a chance to serve in at least some sort of capacity.

Cheers! 

LOL!  Thanks Leo!  I actually ran those lights directly off the cigarette lighter adapter / charger port under the seat.  I guess no one smokes cigarettes anymore.  I quit smoking them back in 2012 and I assume everyone else did too.  LOL!  Anyhoo, as far as the brake lights go, I'm going to pick up another pack of LED lights tomorrow and I'm going to pull the seat off the scooter and by God I'm going to DO IT!  No one else is going to help me, so I'm going to do it.  My dad always told me "Son, if you ever need a helping hand, you need look no farther than the ends of your own arms".  How right he was.  I miss my pops. 

On another note, I had a few to drink tonight, and I went out into the garage, and I decided that I would take on the mistakes I made with the paint.  There were a couple spots where the paint drooled because I was careless.  I took some sand paper and I smoothed out the offending spots.  I then cleaned them up thoroughly and let them dry.  Then I took my trusty paint can, shook it up vigorously and carefully repainted the spots that I had screwed up.  I can't believe it but now all the drools are gone!!  I have a true ROAD WARRIOR bike! 

I took her out for a ride (before I had the alcohol drinks) and I was stopped at a light.  A burly guy on a Harley pulled up next to me at the light and mumbled something to me.  I tipped my visor up and said "Huh?", and he said "I thought I'd pull up next to your mean ride".  Then the light turned green and I let him take off in front of me.  He had a Hells Angels jacket on with an ARIZONA tag on the bottom.  I don't know if he was paying me actual respect or was just making fun of me.  LOL!  I think he was just making fun.  I guess I should count myself lucky that I didn't get shot.

ANYWAY, I digress, so as I was sanding away, and repainting the mistakes I made on my initial paint job, I heard a song in my head.  It was 1:30am and I couldn't really crank a radio in my garage, so I had to listen to the music in my head.  And so I heard "You are my scootie, my only scootie, you make me happy when skies are gray.  You'll never know dear, how much I love you, please don't take my scootie away".  LOL!  I've had WAY too much to drink tonight.  I'm rambling.  Don't mind me, I'm a total NUT!  I like to think I'm an entertaining NUT!  LOL!  

Heya!  I got some LED lights at the auto parts store and wired them up on the sides of the bike where light sort of just gets absorbed like a black hole and everyone pretends they cant see me.  So there's one problem addressed.  I need to pick up another set of LED lights for the back trunk to tie into the brake lights.  I'm not really an electrically inclined kind of guy, and I don't want to mess anything up.   So I called my local Kymco shop and before I could even finish my sentence, the guy cut me off as soon as I said LED and told me they aren't interested in helping.  He said I'll have nothing but electrical problems and went on to say that the electrical generator on scooters can't handle any extra electrical load whatsoever.  He said he wants no part of it and won't help. 

He suggested I put an LED 1157 bulb in the tail light and call it good.  I'm not thrilled with that answer. I'd like to wire up some LED strips that make the bike much more visible and safer on the road.  Anyone have a suggestion for how to go about getting electrical wiring help?

I wonder if there are any solar LED lights that would soak up enough energy during the day to run brake light LED's at night?

Hey thanks Leo! I really worked my tail off on that bike to get the paint done. It's not perfect by any means. There are areas that I screwed up because I was hurrying, or not paying close enough attention, or whatever. But perfection need not apply. I wasn't going for perfect. I was going for no more FLUFLU birdie crapola. I love the Dinksta, but not the paint job. Just like an overbearing mother-in-law, it just HAD to go. I'm really kind of shocked that it turned out as well as it did! Thanks for the bone! I'll add it to my bone collection!

As far as the LED's go, I'm going to run down to the parts store tomorrow and see what I can rustle up. I really should have done it today, but I was stuck in L-A-Z-Y mode all day. This week is the last of my lazy time off between jobs. Tomorrow is my last hoorah. Starting next Monday I'm going to work for a new company. I'm really excited to get started with the new job, but I'll have to say goodbye to all the leisure time I've had over the last 5 or 6 weeks. So I have tomorrow and this weekend to get all the led stuff installed and wired up. I'll probably be asking dumb questions, and making dumb mistakes on it, but that's half the fun. I love to tinker in the garage. So it should be fun if nothing else.

That's very technical. My brother is a GM technician, and when he wants to check o2 sensor readings or other technical readings on the go, he has an interface unit that he plugs into the car's computer and then gets real time sensor read outs. Are you going to rig up some kind of similar contraption to catch the actual readings while riding? I'm pretty sure that you'll get different readings testing it under an actual load vs just revving up in the garage. I look forward to your findings.