Get r done.......the darn kid is gonna want to ride that thing in short order!!!!

Clay

Been stressing out over the last two days (in the blazing sun!) figuring out the wiring loom which was custom made for me, but its all clicking into place.

I am not sure which wires go to the rear brake switch and which go to the neutral light. But I have two sets of bullet connectors to choose from, and I guess that when I power it up, they will either work or power the wrong warning light...easily rectified.

I do however have a black and a red wire, in the same sleeve without any connectors on the end. Now when I first designed the bits and bobs I had a sidestand warning light switch, but I binned that idea. Not sure if this loom was made before or after I binned it

The loom Looks like a badly made birds nest in some places so I have been cable tying it all to the frame to see the fit. I have tried to follow the original bike where possible.

Is that a Theresby frame? And, where did get, or have made, that exhaust system? I like it. MikeV

Hi Mike, yes its a Thersby frame, bought it from Roy when he started the F1 frames, I had seen his TT2 frame and asked if he could make the F1 and he told me he had just started doing them. Mine is frame #23

The exhaust system was made locally here in CZ, in stainless finish, and I sent it to Scotland for ceramic coating.

Lordy, the things one forgot one had hidden away in boxes in the garage.

Bought yet another set of M1R's (thats five sets now!! ) but these are the pukka race version (Bimota I think!) however I have now decided that I wont use the Marvic Streamline's when I get her running... 35 year old Magnesiums...mmm not good methinks.

I do have a set of rather spiffing Marchesinis... but.. 20mm axles! I am almost sure that I can get bearings to fit the Marchesinis but with a 17mm ID If not I guess I need to get some sleeves made up:?:

In the meantime I have these minging 750ss brembo wheels on.

Very tempeted to put the 851 Kit swing on the bike.... even better if I can get a copy made though!

HELP!!!

I tried a custom wiring loom for the first time. But I must have messed up somewhere as one of the negative wires from the battery overheated and melted the sleeving... smoke city, made my boy almost Kack himself!

I had a wiring loom made for me ages back with two leads for the battery (obviously but bear with me), A positive with an attached small diameter wire with a bullet connector. And a negative with an attached small diameter wire with a ring connector.

I attached the Positive lead, along with the lead coming from the starter motor (I presume, its a large diameter lead from the front of the engine case... on a 1993 900SS engine) to the starter solenoid.

I connected this Positive lead to the battery positive terminal.

I know the small diameter wire on the negative lead should be earthed on the frame but I forgot to do this, I connected the main lead to the starter solenoid.

But when I tired to connect this main lead to the Negative terminal on the battery, it flashed a display of sparks and the smaller wire got red hot, melting the plastic cover.

what have I dont wrong? Have I wired the starter solenoid wrong? or is it becuase I didn't earth it with the smaller wire? or something entirely different?

Any help and advice is, beleive me, greatly appreciated, as Electrickery is a form of sorcery of which I know little!

The term “main lead” confuses me. But it simply sounds like you connected to a “hot” terminal, and then touched that to ground - or the ground/negative side of the battery. No big wire, 6- to 8-guage, should go from the solenoid to the negative side of the battery. Perhaps a small ground wire is needed, or not, just depends on the solenoid design. Did you mistakenly connect to a spade connector that was part of the battery-to-solenoid circuit; sometimes these are used to send power elsewhere. A photo of the damage site might help. MikeV

I'm with Mike, please send us some pictures of what you are using for a solenoid. Also, I find when making these connections, I make sure I can quickly remove a wire to avoid that meltdown. Just touching a grounded wire to a live wire will make it spark violently, then you know something is wrong and don't run the risk of melting wires and traumatizing your son! Lol. Lou