Diablo
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Quick edit, I just noticed there is a user mods section, this might have been better in that thread rather than here as in fabrication terms it was a simple task in reality. Still, its done and posted here now.
I Hated the original tail light with a vengeance. One of the first changes to the bike after getting it was the removal of the huge plastic monstrosity that yamaha installed as a tail light along with removing the steel liner from under the rear guard. I found a decent shaped light unit with built in number plate light from eBay, then ordered a sheet of 2mm stainless steel to form a new bracket for the light. I should really have bought 1mm stainless as two mil is a bitch to bend without a decent vice in the workshop area of my garage. After numerous cardboard templates were tried i ended up not needing anywhere near as much stainless as i had first planned for. I had an aluminium number plate mount from an old project on a ducati that ended up going in a different direction, so that was also used in the end as it saved having to cut and grind a separate plate mount or get creative with the single sheet.
Long story short, tail light works as intended, looks (to me at least) vastly superior to the original setup, and as a bonus, its much brighter than the original when braking. Though i am the first to admit that in daylight, the running light isnt as bright as the original yamaha fitment. You can see it fine though, just not as bright. In the UK, we dont need lights on during the day so its not an issue, and as soon as it starts to go near dusk the light looks every bit as bright as normal, maybe its an optical illusion that the running light isnt as bright as i expected. I tried taking a picture as dusk fell, but the camera seemed to want to pick up the white of the number plate light over the red of the running light so it doesnt look as good in the photo as it does on the bike in real world conditions.
In the comparison pic the red bike is my bike early on in my ownership before it was repainted. Didnt really need saying but I am proud of how the bikes turned out so always like to show before and after.
Anyway, here it is in all its much smaller and tidy looking glory.
I Hated the original tail light with a vengeance. One of the first changes to the bike after getting it was the removal of the huge plastic monstrosity that yamaha installed as a tail light along with removing the steel liner from under the rear guard. I found a decent shaped light unit with built in number plate light from eBay, then ordered a sheet of 2mm stainless steel to form a new bracket for the light. I should really have bought 1mm stainless as two mil is a bitch to bend without a decent vice in the workshop area of my garage. After numerous cardboard templates were tried i ended up not needing anywhere near as much stainless as i had first planned for. I had an aluminium number plate mount from an old project on a ducati that ended up going in a different direction, so that was also used in the end as it saved having to cut and grind a separate plate mount or get creative with the single sheet.
Long story short, tail light works as intended, looks (to me at least) vastly superior to the original setup, and as a bonus, its much brighter than the original when braking. Though i am the first to admit that in daylight, the running light isnt as bright as the original yamaha fitment. You can see it fine though, just not as bright. In the UK, we dont need lights on during the day so its not an issue, and as soon as it starts to go near dusk the light looks every bit as bright as normal, maybe its an optical illusion that the running light isnt as bright as i expected. I tried taking a picture as dusk fell, but the camera seemed to want to pick up the white of the number plate light over the red of the running light so it doesnt look as good in the photo as it does on the bike in real world conditions.
In the comparison pic the red bike is my bike early on in my ownership before it was repainted. Didnt really need saying but I am proud of how the bikes turned out so always like to show before and after.
Anyway, here it is in all its much smaller and tidy looking glory.
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