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The New Hotness

  • Running Lights

    New Cadillacs have thin white LED running lights along the front edges, with angular chromed trim below:

    Cadillac running lights
    Cadillac running lights

    Their SUVs have matching vertical-stripe taillight / markers; it’s obviously a stylin’ thing. If it weren’t for the power, I’d run LED strips along the edge of the fairing & seat frame on our ‘bents.

    Probably due to having read Glory Road at an impressionable age, those lights always remind me of Heidelberg dueling scars:

    Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden -- Dueling scar
    Adolf Hoffmann-Heyden — Dueling scar

    Cannot be unseen…