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My new LED taillight set-up

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I had worked with a local CNC laser guy in the past for some scooter stuff, and after picking up the 510 this week, thought I'd give him another shot. I couldn't be happier with the result.

It's a one piece stainless bracket that holds both the plate and light. Solid as a rock w/ no cutting or modding to the bike (I did have to trim the edges of the plate a bit). Everything's nice and out of the way. You can see the set-up very well from the rear, and not at all from the sides. He gets the LED w/ integrated signals at cost and I scored the whole set-up for $65 which seems pretty good seeing Custom Dynamics sells the light alone for $50.







 
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some before and after pics, the middle is a pic of the 2010 rear fender with the molded plastic housing for the taillight, the bottom is the finished product with the 08 - 09 plastic from motoplasticsus.com, it was a really easy install and I think it looks great. thanks mnnthbx for all the info
 
#107 · (Edited)
Here are the pics from my 06 sm 610. Since I couldn't easily find an mx fender for the 610 in the pearl grey color I just took a dremel to the stocker and cut the light housing off. Looks like the fender area is narrower than on the 510 but I was able to trim my plate and re-drill 1 of the mounting holes and get it mounted up just fine so anyone that wants to get this just measure between the bolts on your bike and check your plate first to be sure you can trim it adequately. No need to gripe as this is a very fairly priced solution that works great. Also the wiring sheet that shows the color pairs from the OPs 510 worked just fine for my 610 so the colors were exactly the same.

Of course when I hooked it all up I realize they mounted the actual light upside down so I just flipped it back over and it works like a charm.



 
#109 ·
Well my taillight from Gib arrived. Shipping was fast, order on Friday and received on Tuesday. Overall I'm very happy with the quality of the bracket. Sucks so much modification is required to make the plate fit, but that just part of the game. Just waiting on my mx fender to arrive and i'll be doing the install. At last no hideous growth on the back of my bike.:bannana:
 
#117 ·
Well finally got my light installed. Im pretty pleased. Ended up fabricating and powdercoating my own licence plate mount out of 1/8" aluminum. Just couldn't bring myself to hacking up a full inch off my plate. Enjoy!

what did you use as straps for mounting the plate there, looks like a great alternative so I don't have to modify the plate that I can't modify :clap:
 
#120 ·
It took longer than expected, but my LED tailight from Gib is now installed! Like others have experienced, my plate was too big to fit and I didn't like the angle so I improvised a little. I also wasn't happy with the visibility of the LEDs (read: wife wants other cars to see me). The solution I came up with was to remove 4 inches of the rear fender (the dremel was already out so why not?). Let me know what you guys think!
 

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Weird. My 09 blinks fine, and I don't even have signals up front to drag the load down... A fairly small resistor should fix you up.
 
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I read somewhere that if I remove the front signals from it would fix the problem. I think it was on TT but I can't find it again. The post was saying that if you run an LED light with a regular light such as the front signals it will cause the rapid blinking. I think the article said I could add a risitor or remove the regular light or add LED signals. I think resistor is the way to go I'm just not sure what size would be best.
 
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