Did ya ever nick your dads bike and go for a sedate spin to the beach for ice-cream? has to be sedate, she’s 60 years old now, runs like a watch. with loud exhausts coz’ them internals have long rotted away :)
Think I’d better bring home some ice-cream.
God damn, this just reaffirms my complete adoration for the Honda CB series. Absolute perfection.
Same here, I love the simplicity. I’ve got a 1980 Honda XR500 (built 08/1979, and yes it still has the 23" front tire and cable-actuated drum brakes) that’s going to be my street-legal “apocalypse build”. Since the ignition circuit and the lighting circuit run off separate coils, everything essential to the bike physically running has been stripped to the absolute minimum. I stripped out the original lighting wiring entirely except for the coil itself, all replaced with a Tusk Enduro lighting harness that will eventually be tied into the bike’s lighting circuit with a 12V reg/rec unit and a capacitor bank. No battery, kickstart-only, and that’s the way I like it. Though I’m going to be modifying the Tusk harness as well; it’s a bit chunky. I also built an adapter for the lighting circuit that accepts a Milwakuee M18 battery (via a 12V regulator). For science, of course.
The only thing I actually changed about the ignition circuit was adding a key and hiding the wiring, so the average opportunist thief can’t just kick it over and go without having to think about it first.