Neon's..

<!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: --> Your not asking how to get to 200km/h... just how to 'safely' bling your bike. Fair enough.

To wire up the neon's i'd recommend NOT following your mates instructions/lead, and using a relay to allow a direct connection to the battery but that will be triggered when you either flip a switch, when the bike is on, or both. On the FZR250 i'd be looking at putting a little rocker switch up by the instrument cluster.
What you should be aiming to do is not chop into any 12v lines other than the one that will act as the trigger for the relay. I assume you understand how relay's work; if not please say so and we'll explain.

I got no qualms with anyone blinging up a bike, but please don't have the neon tube's exposed so you can see them from the street. Place them, hide them, or shield them with Aluminium sheeting so only the glow can be seen.

 

is that because they are too bright?

 

Not really, more so that if they are directly visible then they're blatantly illegal and to be honest i think look quite cheep and cheesy.

I've helped bling up a few cars and bikes in my time... haven't done anything to mine at the moment as i'm waiting to respray it before i go for the bling. A little bit of bling can be kinda cool, alot of bling is just wanky. (Personal opinion).
If you need help with the relays or something i can draw up a quick MS Paint diagram to explain it all alot easier than words will. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s -->

 

What I would do is figure out where you putting the neons. Then wire them in. However run a run of 195 cable from your battery (**please see the bottom of this post) to a relay like the first posters have said. Never splice into a factory run, you never now what else is being feed off that run. For the sense for the relay you want a switch there, for the switch to work you have to have a power feed to one side of the switch, once the switch is flicked to the closed postion it will put 12vdc onto the relay trigger and it will close the relay contacts alloying the 12vdc to feed the neons. Very simple. I would use the feed of 12vdc from the 195 cable you have run..which is also being used for the neons power.


**When running power from your battery make sure to put a inline fuse...err well inline. This is where alittle math comes into it. You need to sus out what rating the fuse needs to be. Well we are dealing with 12VDC...so we have that bit..now to find out the how many watts the neons are then we can work out how much current the neons will draw when turned on. Say 2 neons draw 100watts together..so we devide 100watts by 12vdc which is 8.3. So that tells us that the neons will draw 8.3amps when turned on. Simple aye!!! So I would wire in a 10amp inline fuse. That will be safe.

All easy stuff, I think I might have made it seem harder than it is. Please contact me if need be.

 

the guy that sold me my bike told me he had blue parking lights on in one under the rear seat to light up the back wheele and one in betwen the fairings at the front lighting up the front wheele i think this is a better idea then gettin neons put on (like what was said befor less looks better) and it might be cheaper because there only $7 each

 

I want to put them on after i respray the bike.I want to put maybe blue ones on but i dont wont real brite ones on it.Iam guna respray black and dark purple.

 

hmmmm, anyone got pics of noens on their bike? i might consider doin this, if it looks good. would certainly wake up the dickheads that dont see ya at night...

 

Hey fellas.. i was wonderin wot the neons would look like on the fizza... foud some on the gallery pages. It looks like a semi naked fzr.