After a few weeks my hyperlite review
PRO
At night these are great. Bright and almost impossible for others to miss you when braking and the added red running lights and the added amber turn signals help greatly compared to the stock set up.
CON
The brightest angle of light coming out of LEDs is much narrower than non LED lamps.
Lamp bracket sold by Hyperlites, while high quality and well made, is not as wide as say the HD OEM rear running lights. Would love the bracket to be wider by say 4 - 8 inches for better visibility.
Posilock connectors work well, but would prefer some plug and play sockets for the connections. Such as Easter Beaver has for the Suzuki DL650a.
VStrom
VStrom Brake/Tail/Signal Adapters - see installation info here
There are two versions of this adaptor:
Version 1 - has one wire for each wire in the VStrom’s rear connector. This provides ground, brake light, tail light, and signal lights connection ability.
Hyper-Lites flashing LED brakelights can use this adaptor.
Version 2 - is for using a Brake Light Modulator like the Backoff XP, where the modulator goes inline. In this version the tail, signal and ground wires are simply wires joined to the VStrom’s rear wires. The brake light has two wires: red is input, purple is output.
brake-tail-signal_v1
Version 1
Connect auxiliary brake lights or Hyperlites.
Connect auxiliary tail lights.
Connect running lights.
Connect auxiliary signal lights.
Connect a topbox tail with tail, brake, and signal lights
Connect your alarm to your bike’s signal lights.
Version 1 VStrom Brake/Tail/Signal Adapter $24.95
Quantity: Version 1 VStrom Brake/Tail/Signal Adaptor
See wire colours and functions here
OVERALL
Happy I bought them and I am sure it makes me safer compared with OEM single brake lamp system.
Would buy them again and plan to install them on a different ride. Suzuki DL650a but using the Eastern Beaver plug and play wire set up ...