RTW without indicators/turn signals?
Hello good people!
I have just bought a 1998 XR600R for my travels, into which I planned to install a reg/rec and a small battery for a separate DC circuit which could run indicators and a 12v power supply to charge my phone or run my air compressor when needed... probably upgrading or re winding the stator for more wattage, but a technical person I spoke to about this job had an interesting take on it;
I bought the bike because it's an ultra simple and straightforward machine so keep it that way.
A good hand pump will work perfectly well, will probably be lighter and more reliable than the compressor and I won't be inflicting the combined noise of a 600cc thumper and an electric motor on the world every time I want to do something as simple as blow up my tyres.
Charging the phone only requires 5v and can be done with a solar panel, wind turbine or a bicycle dynamo or something.
And finally he said that he'd ridden motorbikes for donkeys years without indicators and my proposed electrical meddling was an awful lot of hassle to just have flashy orange lights when there were such cheap and practical workarounds for the other uses I had for DC power.
So, what do you lot think? In your opinions will indicators be essential through Europe, Asia, Aus & NZ?
Has anyone gone these distances without them?
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