Tuesday, July 12, 2011

While the shelter is off I wired auxiliary sockets to the auxiliary terminal on the fuse block
Now I can plug in my GPS, phone and camera

Monday, July 11, 2011

Since I am going LED for the back lights, the old school flasher relay won't encounter enough resistance to operate properly. I could put resistors in the circuit like I see some people do and still use the old relay but it is much easier to just replace it with an electronic one

I found a 6 pin male connector that plugs into the stock wiring harness. This is temporarily wired to a trailer light converter which is temporarily wired to the 2 tail light/brake light/turn signals. I wanted to see if everything worked before I soldered it all together. Surprisingly, with my electrical track record, it worked the first time. The lights have tape all over them because I am in the middle of painting them. This is a story I will get to later
T-nuts are bolted to the fender mount holes and will be Bondo Glassed to the inside of the tail
This is how the tail will be held down at the back without any exposed hardware

Sunday, July 10, 2011

I want to keep the tail nice and clean so I will side mount the licence plate
I made a small bracket that attaches to the diff vent bolt, and I hope it doesn't spin into the wheel like a metal baseball card
Some licence plate bolt LEDs will light everything up


My brother gave me a small fairing from a Buell so I tried it on the '80 and it fits like it was made for the bike
I'll make a couple of brackets and mount it to the headlight bolts

Sunday, May 15, 2011






It was a great day in Port Dover on Friday the 13th. I rode down on my 78 naked Goldwing with Steve on his 82 naked Interstate, Rick on his 83 dresser, Tim on his Kawasaki cruiser and Gary on his Yamaha cruiser. As usual there were many interesting bikes and people