26-02-12, 11:45 PM
Hello Everyone,
Here are the Acerbis Dual Road hand guards, i've had them for around 18 months now. They do make a small difference to the wind blast and let you keep using your summer gloves slightly longer. One advantage is that they do keep some of the rain off when riding (> 30 mph) and that is useful.
Anyway, Acerbis sell LED lights for them but looking on eBay these LED strips are popular ([size=78%]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-UNDER-CAR-MO...336307dfea[/size]) If you search for LED SMD you'll see loads of adverts for these 5m spools of LED strips. They run on 12V so are fine to wire into the bike.
I had to slightly mod the Acerbis clear plastic strip with the dremel but the LED strip fits a treat. It's nice and bright and gives the bike a wider look. You can see from the 4th photo i put some heatshrink on the wires and they provide a neat installation.
The clear plastic on the handguards has a slight blue tint, very slight. If it was completely clear the lights would be as bright as those LEDs fitted to new cars as daylight running lights.
I have a Fuze Block (www.fuzeblocks.com) fitted (great device, would highly recommend) and as this is a switched live i have the LEDs some on with the ignition. The LEDs draw milliamps so no power issues occur, i've also taken out my sidelights (5w each, 10w total) as they were a little redundant with the LEDs in the handguard.
I hope the post is useful to others thinking about this type of thing, or just to highlight these LED strisp which do allow some innovative mods to occur.
Here are the Acerbis Dual Road hand guards, i've had them for around 18 months now. They do make a small difference to the wind blast and let you keep using your summer gloves slightly longer. One advantage is that they do keep some of the rain off when riding (> 30 mph) and that is useful.
Anyway, Acerbis sell LED lights for them but looking on eBay these LED strips are popular ([size=78%]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-UNDER-CAR-MO...336307dfea[/size]) If you search for LED SMD you'll see loads of adverts for these 5m spools of LED strips. They run on 12V so are fine to wire into the bike.
I had to slightly mod the Acerbis clear plastic strip with the dremel but the LED strip fits a treat. It's nice and bright and gives the bike a wider look. You can see from the 4th photo i put some heatshrink on the wires and they provide a neat installation.
The clear plastic on the handguards has a slight blue tint, very slight. If it was completely clear the lights would be as bright as those LEDs fitted to new cars as daylight running lights.
I have a Fuze Block (www.fuzeblocks.com) fitted (great device, would highly recommend) and as this is a switched live i have the LEDs some on with the ignition. The LEDs draw milliamps so no power issues occur, i've also taken out my sidelights (5w each, 10w total) as they were a little redundant with the LEDs in the handguard.
I hope the post is useful to others thinking about this type of thing, or just to highlight these LED strisp which do allow some innovative mods to occur.