The point of the situation

Just a quick note to myself:

Due to the GFC, funds are very low… it looks like the Samurai will have to be enjoyed as is, as I can’t really afford to sink more money into it.

What’s good: Bike runs, shifts and brakes. All electrickery works APART from…

Horn and blinkers. So what’s bad:

Horn, blinkers, seat and eventually putting a old-style oil tank.

Tried all sorts of things with the horn. There is a high suspicion of  a duff brown wire. It looks chaffed and as if it had been repaired some time in the past. Running a direct positive wire frome the bat and actioning the button gives a loud HONK… but this didn’t last. Voltage at the brown wires is only 4.6V, so the wires should be the cuplprit BUT now I can’t get the horn to work at all. Will check at Franky’s with known good batteries. I might have fried the (rare) original horn. To top it off the horn button is now falling to pieces.

Easy solution would be buying the correct (for the year) switches, for both sides, but that’s a no-no. And a new horn.

If I want to add blinkers I need to source a extra rear one or modify one of my fronts. They’re so rare, I’d rather not think about it.

The Samurai being fairly well-mannered and silent bikes, a horn is a safety measure, IMHO. Blinkers are as handy as rear view mirrors…

The seat cover needs to be sorted at Pit-replicas, very good quality. then the foam needs to be sorted. More dollars…

I think I’ll button it up again and just live with it for a while.