When I bought my 2004 one of the plastic rear turn signals was broken. I fixed it and broke it again. The problems are two fold; one, the things are plastic, and two, they stick out on a stalk three inches long.
As I was replacing them anyhow, I decided to gut them and rebuild them as LED's that sit flush with the fender.
The removal of the stalk took a hacksaw, some fiberglass chop, some bondo and a hollow pipe nipple. As you can see I painted them to match my bike.
The wiring took a little effort but only because I made two circuits. One is a running light and one is a brake. All wiring is enclosed in fiberglass resin, and is shock and waterproof.
On the brake circuit each light has 24 high output red LED's and one super bright white bulb.
What do you think?