If I could have my way I wouldn’t have even put any blinkers on my bike at all.  Not only did it mean  more wiring to try to stuff inside the frame, but,  to me putting big stupid looking blinkers on my otherwise clean looking bike,  just plain looked the shits. Unfortunately the guy who was doing the DMV inspection said he couldn’t rubber stamp it unless it had functioning blinkers.  So with that said, I set out on a quest to find the smallest set of turn signals in the free world.  I did find some fairly small bullet LED blinkers on Ebay but at 1 1/2″ inches long they were still too big for my liking.  A guy on Club Chopper’s forum recommended mini LED blinkers made by Big Bear Choppers. The weren’t bad but they wanted 140.00 a pair little bastards ….screw that!  Then one day I happened to run across a little Web store called  AutoIllumination.com. They have these really nifty little blinkers that measure in at a mere 7/16″ in diameter (They also offer 5/8″ dia). I did have my reservations about them but I at 4.99 a piece I thought…”What the hell ” and bought a set of 4. Two amber colored ones for the front, and  a couple of red ones for the rear.  The glass lamps are actually clear regardless of the color they are when they light up. The only way to tell the colors apart without power on them is by the label on the bag, so I took care not to mix them up.
Another cool thing about them is that they have resisters build right into the base of the bulb so no need to have to wire them in.

To mount them I went down to the local hardware sore and bought 4 small L brackets that came pre-drilled with a hole on each end. The only thing I had to do was drill the  hole that light was going into a little bigger, then give them a shot of black with a rattle can to match the black frame and trees. I mounted the front ones under the lower triple tree, and the back ones I put on the frame under the axle block. It was amazing! They were almost invisible. I challenged everyone who came into my shop to try and find them. Not - a -one person could find them. I had to show everyone where they were. I hooked them up to a solid-state blinker that had a self canceling function built it…Found that on ebay for I think it was 24 bucks..When it came time to test them, my expectations were really low. I didn’t think a set of LED bulbs that small would be very bright, but holy shit was I wrong. I was totally blown away by how bright they were. I was pretty amazing. In fact the inspector looked at me and said (and I quote) “Where the fuck are the blinkers…I can’t pass this prick without any blinkers.” When I walked over and hit the switch on the hand control, the whole site of the shop lit up. The look on his face was pretty funny.

So for those of you that want to make the big clunky turn signals  on your chopper disappear I highly recommend these little mini blinkers. You can check them out at http://autolumination.com/indicator.htm