Can You See Me Now - Aux Lights for the 3R

[Journeyman]

Lights from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083FJTYRV?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Fork brackets were custom ordered from ClearWatter (~$30).

Headed out on a 7 - 10 day ride through the Shenandoah Valley to D.C. and beyond and looking for a little more "recognition" out there.

 

[ransan]

Nice I have a set of Clearwater’s on my rock. Motors need to be conspicuous.

 

[Journeyman]

One of my lights went out. The company said they no longer made the yellow ones, so they refunded me 100%. I bought these replacements. They're smaller, inexpensive, look pretty good, and extremely bright. $27, so if a rock takes one out I'll just buy another set.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GS4QTZN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Edit (3-4-23) I'm using these as marker lights to be seen by other drivers during the day, not to increase my ability to see at night.

No way I can run them at night without blinding other drivers and in the daytime they're borderline obnoxious- which is perfect. These can be switched from white, yellow, both. I only have a one-way switch, so I didn't wire the white in. I think with both on they'd be nuclear.

 

[rainman]

No I can't see you
But seriously they look great

 

[Boog]

I'm with Jay, I looked for several minutes and never saw you in any photo.

That aside, the lights look great. Wave as you ride by brother.

 

[Journeyman]

Darn- turns out that these lights make me invisible. Not what I was going for but I now have a new super power.

 

[Jagster]

Nicely done. Very smart
My only thoughts are........To be more effective, should they (could they) be mounted higher up (??)

 

[Journeyman]

There are different opinions on that. I've gone with further apart. I've noticed when I see Beamers off in the distance they pop with those yellow lights mounted low. The only downside I see would be certain situations in hilly terrain, which is where I live.

 

[Italianguy069]

One of my lights went out. The company said they no longer made the yellow ones, so they refunded me 100%. I bought these replacements. They're smaller, inexpensive, look pretty good, and extremely bright. $27, so if a rock takes one out I'll just buy another set.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GS4QTZN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

No way I can run them at night without blinding other drivers and in the daytime they're borderline obnoxious- which is perfect. These can be switched from white, yellow, both. I only have a one-way switch, so I didn't wire the white in. I think with both on they'd be nuclear.

Did mounting brackets come with lights ?

 

[1olbull]

These lights do look nice, BUT . . .
In my world of crash reconstruction and motorcycle lighting optics, any production LED side light costing under $100 US is inadequate.
Get a light meter reading at 1 meter for lux and I would bet that object identifiable light cast forward would be less than 200 feet and perhaps even less. Remember that at 60 mph you move 88 feet every second and at night you will have about a 2 second response time for a simple response.
By the time you react and apply brakes, or swerve, that 200 or less feet is gone. You have struck the hazard at or near 60 mph.
Just trying to be helpful - absolutely NO offense intended. Up front, I run the Clearwater Erica with my JW Speaker Adaptive 2 headlights

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