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ogden scribbled on the back of a napkin:

"Classy"

My arse.

 

Jesus H, man, pull your punches!

 

The precise position and angle of visibility of direction indicators are not
part of this inspection, but they must be on each side of the longitudinal
axis of a solo machine.

Pretty marginal in this case. Could be misinterpreted at night?

 

tallbloke emerged from their own little world to say

I agree with your point about being marginal as far as MOT regs are
concerned. Why would the signal be misread?

My VFR had a light unit with a central red section for the tail light
with orange indicators either side.

From the rear all another road user sees is an orange light flashing
either to the right or left of a red light. Pretty obvious which
direction the bike is going.

(I'm assuming that the tail light is always on)

 

ogden says...

Hom. Doesn't darsy have something similar on his blade?

 

ogden says...

Heh, wasn't what I was implying but it'll do.

 

As gay as a window

 

no. Completely normal indicators on my blade.

 

You have the right of it there: Construction and Use Regs state it. I
can't recall the exact figure right now, but it would mean that if I
built the indicators in to the rear light on the RF they would be 5mm
too close together.

This is something you could be nicked for, but would pass the MoT test
and therefore prolly worth the risk. Coming across a Pod of Plod
comprising a Measuring Plod, a Counting Plod and a Plod Wot Knows the
Law is unlikely, to say the least.

 

Fair point. I wonder if there are enough red leds in one half to kick out
the required wattage for a stop signal with the tail light on too.

 

There are LED replacement stop-tails available that "spin" when on,
and flash when braking. Probably totally illegal, but more than a
little tempting.

 

On a similar not, is there a limit to the number of indicators you can
have at the back?

Would a pair on the panniers and a pair on the topbox be okay?

 

Plenty of lorries and buses have multiple sets.

 

But he was talking about a Gold W...


Oh, I see. As you were.

 

Axminster, iwt.

 

Bear says...

You're dead right. They had to change the rear light lenses and fit a
new set of indicators to the back of the pop-up headlight GSX750 Katana
around 1987/88.

 

That wasn't always the way though, was it?

 

When I was last in Thailand I noticed that cars had these, very
distracting. It would appear that some of them spin faster the harder
the braking.

 

@individual.net:

Repeaters are ok AFAIK