Well I got back on Saturday from two weeks of conference and vacation in California and Utah to a box from CycleGadgets with some new toys for my R1200RT - so Sunday afternoon saw me in the garage starting to install them
Firstly was 16 LED Hyperlites which are specifically for the BMW Canbus system. I was concerned that with the 49 litre top box installed the brake light was not visible to traffic and I 'needed' some more visibility - especially on the US Interstates.
Installation was pretty simple as I had already a power source available from the Canbus fuse panel I installed a couple of weeks ago. The lights themselves stick with double sided tape onto the red reflectors on the sides of the rear number plate and two small holes are then drilled in the real light mounting for the wires to pass through to connect to the flasher unit which mounts under the rear seat.
The kit comes with some amazing connectors called PosiTap and PosiTwist which made tapping into the existing wiring a dream. Basically you tap into two wires on the rear brake light using the posiTap connectors and then a single wire feeds into your switched power supply from the flaser unit and then it is just a matter of connecting the Hyper-lite units themselves to the flasher unit. the whole install took less than 30 minutes and the impact is great.
UPDATE: I have posted some pictures the Hyper-Lites installed on my bike in the Photo Album on this blog.
Highly recommended units!
Next up is installation of PIAA 1100x lights and an Autoswitch - I will post later this week when I get round to doing the install
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