Black, Is the new black!

drool's...

It's a new year, Which can only mean one thing... more motorbike changes, poor thing she's getting changed more often than my single mates bedsheets...

But what's changed this year i hear you ask? Well last year I liked the "Dresser" look on my bike, I't made it look bigger and the chrome looked lovely in the sun, but winter was harsh on the chrome despite many layers of ACF50! 

I also realised that the added weight of crash bars and spotlights was putting a bit of a strain on the little engine, So one afternoon, spanner in hand I removed as much as I physically could, then passed the bits absolutely necessary for day to day running to a friend who works in powder coating, these parts were front and rear fenders, rear light bracket and chain guard. :

Then I got them all fitted:

hmm, looking sweet!

However on fitting the rear light back on, it seems I was a little over enthusiastic when pulling the cable back under the mudguard... I broke one of the connectors on the rear light, which despite my awesome  basic soldering skills I could not fix, The rear right indicator also gave up the ghost, no dodgy connection or bad bulb, just wouldn't work, so i've put that one down to poltergeist.

A new LED brake unit, mini indicators and flasher relay allr arrived in the post. I got the mini indicators fitted without fuss...

...but the tail-light wires were too short! Bugger!

A quick trip down to maplin got me 3m of 4 amp cable and a ten pack of bullet connectors, I made an extension cable by plugging the new light wires into a female bullet connector, then running the cable to a male bullet connector, plugging into the stock connectors under the seat, Job done and the new light looks sweet!

In addition to this I got a bit bored of my blue bulbs in the dash, So those got swapped to green...

It was kindly pointed out on the forum, that Ihave now changed the bulbs once every 1000km, and that they now look "Romulan" which I like, A lot!

The big news though is with the headlight:

(Taken from post on the forum, cos i'm too lazy to re-type)

As many of you will know our plucky little HN's headlight is only marginally better than sticking a tealight in the headlamp lens and eating lots of carrots, needless to say... not that bright.

I bought a second hand 7" headlamp with an h4 fitting bulb, this arrived and was sadly too wide to fit in the hn's mount, so I managed to "Retrofit" Bodge the new lens into the current hn headlamp and collar then set up the HID kit as detailed online.





Below is the bike with the front LED parking bulb on to give a comparison of brightness (sorry for poor quality photo's it's dark out!)

And then with the HID:

Bit of a difference to what I was riding on before!:

Amazing!

The kit came from ebay and cost £25, no instructions but I found this image, which made everything very easy to work out:

Although the wiring layout in the headlight left something to be desired!

That's all for this week...

Saddle Next I think, then maybe hard tailing, I like how low she looks in this photo:

We'll see shall we?