What happened Bobby? "[ Invalid YouTube link ]"? Anyhoo, no physical progress this weekend, apart from realising that I have a matching front 19 inch rim to match the 16 inch "Hog" rear rim that I'll be lacing the rear hub to, so I dug thru a tub and found a really good front hub.
I've got a set of custom spokes which are supposed to be for a CB750 front wheel but I'm not 100% sure that they are, so I'll compare them to the Yamiya spokes that are (hopefully) arriving this week, and if they are, I'll loosely lace them up and then take them over to Jeff at Ace Motorcycles to true, and fit some new tyres to.
Being the true redneck that I am, I just couldn't bear spending 50 bucks or so for the two OEM battery cables I need, so when I drove the 200 miles to my home town yesterday to visit my Ma, I stopped in at the local Auto Parts store to buy some cable and some connectors. They were having a "20% off store wide" sale, so the opportunity to save even more money presented itself, and I was a bit surprised when I walked out of the store $150 poorer, but hell, my battery leads are gonna be way better than those expensive store bought ones! (maybe.............)
I did think about starting the wiring today, but after the 200 mile return drive back home, I'm tired, it's cold outside, and my big comfy chair looks way too comfy, so I'll wait until my new throttle/handlebar switch and cheap arse chinese AGM battery arrive. I've got a new wiring harness already, and as much as I'd prefer breathing life back into a crappy old original one, because I'm building this bike from the ground up with parts I've bought from different sources, I didn't have a harness to start with.
I'm thinking about a solid state regulator/rectifier now. I installed one on my last bike (the one I traded for my RC51) and it worked well. I do have some spare OEM items here and I've never really had an issue with them, so the redneck in me says to just keep on trucking, but I do like to improve things where practical. Then there's the twin carb conversion, which I hope works better than it did last time, but that's another story. Hmmnn, time for a nap..........