For stays read 'stays or grab handles or other bits of bent tin'.Groily wrote:Quote: Depends on the year model re stays. The factory method I have given for 55 never caused any problems for my 55 since I first owned one in 1956. No fuses fitted then either. You do need to keep an eye on the wire. Often I have found mine have come out from the tag. This allows the wire to drop on the tyre. Brake light wires can get damaged by pillion riders feet on them. Some else just to keep an eye on to prevent failure there.
Otherwise . . .Exactly! Without a fuse on a brake light direct off the battery, it's 2am and it's bucketing down and the tyre rubs through . . . and you checked before you set out . . . and the passenger (who looked good when the evening was young but now wishes you had a car and could get 'er home in one bit and in the dry and is yelling "And if you think you're coming in for a "coffee", forget it") is why I don't like the wires where they were put originally Rob, on any machine!![/quote]
Well I/we still go out together on our bikes for fun. Car is always there when we are not riding for the pleasure of just motor cycling. Maybe I'm lucky to have a wife that does not complain, if we get caught in the rain. Just put her in the airing cupboard to dry when we get home.