Dumped my bike a little while ago, broke both my left front and rear turn signals, ordered some new directionals and went to install them last night. I had to strip the black wires and connect the new wire to the old connector so it would fit right. i inserted the red wire in the front into the silver connector that the brown wire had gone into with the old light. I'm not sure if the colors matter or not, I know they do when working with computers....this is my first shot at fixing my bike lol
anyway...my problem is that the light comes on, but won't shut off or blink. -.-
which defeats the purpose of a turn signal......help..meee please......

HAHA! ....shortly after posting, i got sick of sitting inside while my poor bike was left unattended to in the yard, so i fiddled around with the wires some more and was successful.
I did something similar to verslagen1's recommendation....ending up with one wire thats just kinda hanging out inside the headlight case thing.
To the 18 views and one comment i received within 20 mins, thank you for your time and the moral of my post is.... if at first you don't succeed, try again.
i'm off to ride around the block on this beautifully warm sunny evening.  
-Amanda