Topic: Back on the road!

[Jeff]

I had a few months where my CB550 was stuck in the garage, due to a starter switch that preferred to smoke instead of work. Sent it away to get fixed, and it came back in the same condition. The problem turned out to be when I switched to drag bars, I must've bent a wire just right that it was resting on a soldered bit of another wire. I also lost the spring behind the starter button. One tiny piece of electrical tape, and 1/2 a spring from a clicky pen... and it's back in action!

Here's a pic from my shakedown run yesterday.


I need to make a few adjustments and get a bar end mirror. I tried the mirror under the bar thing and it just doesn't work. Looks decent, but works terribly.

I'm just happy to be riding again, even if it is just for a few more days till winter is here in MN.

Jeff

[petercb750]

Jeff - I too have had the frustrations of electrical woes recently - ain't it good to back in action!!
The joys of 70s biking in the the 21st century........
Peter.

[Jeff]

Electrical problems suck! 

Still, there's something great about riding a 30 year old bike that you can't get from modern machinery.

Jeff

[DarkRider]

Then again its an entirely different feeling all together to just be riding something that is older then all the zoom splats on the roads nowadays.