Why Do I Have Red Rear Blinkers?

Like the title says... The rear blinkers on my 93 are red just like the brake light.  I know I have seen pics of plenty of other gen3's, but they have amber lenses...

Why am I different?    :goofy:

It was a common mod to change from amber to red.  I guess that completes the Sylon look (remember those baddy's from Battlestar Galactica?).  I have it too thanks to the PO. 

I'm thinking about doing a faux round tail lights and blinkers with Plastidip to see if I like it, tthen figuring out a more permanent solution.

Ahh, ok.    Thanks.

I have red as well..Guess one of the previous owners switch them cause they liked the way it looked.

IIRC rear red turnsignal lights are stock on US 3rd gen VFRs.

So I'm not special... dang. Sent from my handheld-sending-thing...

CornerCarver's son has a 3G, and I was wondering the same since he's also got red rear signals.

Didn't the 3rd GENs have the turn signals on stalks mounted lower on the fender? I thought the reason the 4th GENs are yellow is that they did away with the separate stalks and the DOT regs say "rear turn signals SHALL BE YELLOW". I know it was common to put the dual filament bulb (1157) sockets in where the single filament ones were and replace the yellow lenses with the red ones from a 3rd GEN. 

The 3rd gens originally had the turn signals (amber) separately mounted, attached to the sides of the mudguard that mounted the license plate, just like the other CBR's of the time. The turn signals you are referring to (red, next to the taillight) were dummy's in the US models, but I believe functional in other countries. (Site me on that) Just about every owner ditched the original turn signals, because you could literally twist off the bulb holder in the original signal, and twist it into the red lens next to the taillight.

The 4th gen got this mod from the factory, but to be DOT compliant, the were amber.

See below, 14 & 17 are the original amber, 12 & 13 are the red dummy lights everyone switched the bulb holder to.

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Ah, that explains it. :fing02:

The turn signals you are referring to (red, next to the taillight) were dummy's in the US models, but I believe functional in other countries. (Site me on that)

Correct. Here they have always been amber coloured, and functional.

That fiche even shows the plug that goes in the red side lense.  Good info!

I'm glad the PO did the conversion, but it would have been one of my first mods anyway.  :)

As said above.  Back in 1993 I even went to the trouble of sourcing UK-spec rear turn sigs from a UK wrecking yard (in the pre-Internet days, this was a major pain!)...only for the US-spec 4th gens to come out the next year with OEM amber lenses that slotted directly into the 3rd-gen plastic! 

Ciao,

Wow!  Very good piece of info.  I never knew!

I seem to remember you could swap the 94-97 amber lenses right onto the 90-93.

Is that right?

JZH beat me to it!

As said above.  Back in 1993 I even went to the trouble of sourcing UK-spec rear turn sigs from a UK wrecking yard (in the pre-Internet days, this was a major pain!)...only for the US-spec 4th gens to come out the next year with OEM amber lenses that slotted directly into the 3rd-gen plastic! 

Ciao,

Ah, the days when AOL and Compuserve disks flooded mailboxes across the land. :laugh:

As said above.  Back in 1993 I even went to the trouble of sourcing UK-spec rear turn sigs from a UK wrecking yard (in the pre-Internet days, this was a major pain!)...only for the US-spec 4th gens to come out the next year with OEM amber lenses that slotted directly into the 3rd-gen plastic! 

Ciao,

Ah, the days when AOL and Compuserve disks flooded mailboxes across the land. :laugh:

I'd forgotten about that...but yes, I was on Compuserve at the time (and on the late, great Ride Forum run by the late, great Dave Moore), and met many wonderful people there (I even stole my "Ralph Mouse" avatar from someone on that forum!)

But, I digress... :tongue:

Ciao,

I just picked up a 3rd gen that has red rear signals
So thats not stock?

No. The complete answer is in post #9
 

Ah, the days when AOL and Compuserve disks flooded mailboxes across the land. :laugh:

:laugh: across the whole western world as I remember getting those (compuserve) at least once a month and they came with about every (tech) magazine.

No. The complete answer is in post #9 

Ah, the days when AOL and Compuserve disks flooded mailboxes across the land. :laugh:

:laugh: across the whole western world as I remember getting those (compuserve) at least once a month and they came with about every (tech) magazine.

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