Flashing brake lights

[rac3r]

The other day I saw one of the late model R1's and whenever he braked the rear light flashed and then worked as normal. It looked pretty good and definitely catches your attention.

Like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5Y-lYqzn38

What do you think? legalities? MOT?
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[ScaredyCat]

[Marmalade]

You can get a flasher unit on ebay, clicky
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[rac3r]

[Marmalade]

It does say in the listing a mate will fit it for a beer.

Bring it to me and i'll fit it for nowt.
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[delsol]

Potentially there is a lot going for it methinks, different enough to attract attention without being offensive.

Being legal on motorcycles only would be nice, that way it does not get lost and meaningless in the crowd.

It won't happen though.

[-Matt-]

I'd be unkeen to use that purely because i imagine sooner or later some idiot in a car behind with a hot head will presume you're trying to 'flash him off' for some reason or another and start driving like a nutjob.

The intergrated turn signals i'm not keen on either - i did try those on my ZX6 when i first got it, but after getting a couple of mates to follow me to see what it was like they said when you apply the brake the brightness of it can make it quite hard to see you're indicating at the same time, so went back to the stock ones

Does look good though

[Kickstart]

Hi

Flashing brake light would seem to fall foul of:-

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/13/made

Integrated turn / tail lights normally seem to count as an MOT fail as the indicator affects the tail lights (don't think the min distance rules are enforced for the MOT though).

All the best

Keith
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[rac3r]

On this one I think the indicating side dims plus the movement should be enough to work.

Just seen they are about £80 shipped here though

I wish someone would make one where just the tip of each light flashes as an indicator
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I like the idea. The flash gets the attention, then it stays on so that people know that you are still braking. Believe it or not, most car drivers aren't wankers, and those that are will kick off over much less than that.

I'd be tempted to fit it under the seat along with a 2-pole switch secreated somewhere easy to fit so that it can be turned off/bypassed for the MOT and the obligatory 'random safety /in possession of a motorcycle' check from your local cuntstabulary.
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[soforene]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Golgarth]

There are cars that had flashing tail lights but now they make the hazards flash under hard braking. I personally preferred flashing tail lights instead of hazards.

[.Bishbash.]

Seen flashing brake lights on track a few times, so off putting for one, and second it was on the new BMW, so could have been in race mode, which suggests it is not legal.
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[Shaft]

[metalangel]

Damned if I can find any videos of the current generation UK spec Ford Mustang, but the North American spec does this for its signals/indicators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUWkewd52M

I suspect they might fit an orange LED into one of the reversing lights to flash orange and meet the regulations in the UK.
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[-Matt-]

[growler]

Mate has a second rear light mounted below the stock consisting of two vertical rows of red LEDs which is slaved to his rear light and when he applies the brake the LEDs flash really does catch the eye but stock light is standard
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[Shaft]

[Kickstart]

[doggone]

[nathan k]

[-Matt-]

On road i guess ot might be too distracting/confused with emergency vehicles. If you think of it happening on a motorway in the far lane from yoursrelf many people would probably look off their own road, "whats flashing/why are they braking hard ".

Shame though id agree on standard roads it would be a goos attention grabber, but would have to be on all vehicles i guess.

[nathan k]

[1cyl]

Another circuit board = Another thing to go wrong.

No Thanks.
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