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About as light of a gage of speaker wireyou can get. Ends stripped, and long enough to reach the contact screws. How I came across this idea was, I needed a new lighter for the bike. I purchased the wrong one and in the middle of nowhere I pushed it in and my bike started running like crap, miss firing, bucking, all bad! I pulled over and part of the assessment was checking the fuse, and it was blown. I had a back up, bike fired up and off I went. Decided to have another smoke, punched in the lighter and it happened all over again. It clicked in as to what was causing the problem. Now I'm out of fuses but in my bag of tricks I had some speaker wire. Stripped it down to one lead, bared the ends, and installed it. Once again the bike fired up. My curiosity got the best of me and keeping my eye on the new installation, I puched in the lighter again, and low and behold, the speaker fire fizzled immediately. Threw away the lighter, installed another piece of speaker wire and away I went. Same speaker wire and it has been about 5 years now. The interesting part was, even with the blown fuse, there was enough arc to get the random firing.
I can't speak enough about keeping little odds and ends in a little bag tossed inside the fairing. There is about an acre of storage in there. Pop out the turn signal light and drop it in. Another occassion my ignition switch crapped out, total power shut down. Figured I was done, but a little time on my hands, I pulled out the ingition switch, created a wire harness and hot wired the bike. Had everything working, stero, signals, the whole deal. To shut it off, I pulled out the hot lead. I finished the last of my trip with this set up. Replaced the ignition, and guess what.....that wire harness I made, sits in that little bag in my fairing.
Kyle
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
