There was a surprising number of people in Port Dover

Here is Steve stopped for gas in Simcoe. The tail light and licence plate attached with packing tape

Friday the 13th in November wasn't really on my radar screen since I normally don't like to freeze my butt off riding to Port Dover, so when it turned out to be nice I had to scramble to get it together to make the trek. Steve's bike was in the shop so I offered up my newest '78. The only problem was I had it all apart, so I had to bodge it back together to make it rideable and legal for the trip. Pretty was not in the equation.

I went for a spin to check out my bag/GPS rig. It works great. You can also see the camera mount I made, attached to the left mirror base

I was tired of riding around lost and I wanted to mount my GPS on my bike. I wanted a tank bag anyway so I made one with a pocket to hold the GPS and Velcro straps to attach it to the tank lid. Maps can be placed into the lower window. The GPS will run fine on battery power for awhile but I wanted to be able to plug it into the bike so I ran a wire from the aux terminal on the fuse box to a socket that I mounted to the choke cable bracket. A corresponding plug was attached to a three way cigarette lighter splitter which lives in the tank bag and the GPS plugs into this. To remove the bag and GPS, the Velcro is undone and the plug is pulled out of the choke cable. bracket

The seat pan has been upholstered to resemble the original seat which can be seen in the background

I got started on a new seat and tail for the new '78. With a cardboard framework everything can be made symmetrical, instead of trying to freehand it