As the bodywork for the Laverda is hopefully going to be ready for collection next weekend, I decided that today was as good a day as any to attack the spaghetti bowl of wiring that had acquired a few interesting features. Three hours of teaching the squirrels swearwords and I can say: - People who use black cables for both positive and negative connections to the battery should be shot. Once I finally figured that out and fixed some other wiring issues along the way, most gremlins left the building. - Just because you've got the "correct" workshop manual for your bike doesn't mean that the fucking wiring diagram is correct in all details. Once I figured *that* out, the interesting behaviour of the high beam idiot light (it came on unless you selected high beam...) was history as well. Flush with success, I decided that now would be a good time to replace the broken front mudguard stay (vibration-induced stress fracture, what else?). Once I got the damn thing out I of course noticed that the one size M6 bolt I didn't have in sufficient quantity was the one I needed to replace the well worn ones that hold up the mudguard. Oh well, another small parts order on Monday and I should be on track to putting the whole thing back together next weekend. Just throttle cables and mudguard stay to go...
