My ‘03 Stone just arrived last night to the garage and I need to replace the rear tail setup due to the stock arms breaking off and so forth. You can buy a whole new stock setup for a mere $160 or something close to that; however, it will probably break again eventually; thus, has anyone here done a replacement for this other than stock and can you share pics? Or, has anyone maybe bought the stock setup and somehow reinforced it prior to installing?
When I had my old Jackal with the stock housing I replaced the turn signals using off the shelf Buell units that were smaller and more light weight. But I had custom machined spacers that someone on here made. (Jeff in Ohio or something like that, it was a decade ago).
But then when I ditched the rear fender for a custom mount I installed a whole separate aftermarket Lucas/Triumph styled light.
I think if I was starting from scratch with a stock fender I would simply start with reinforcing the stock housing and installing some sort of smaller/lighter light.
A simple metal bracket with 90 degree ends on each end that protrude over the sides of the housing should do the trick with reinforcement no?
