Spent the day with my brother fettling the bike. We go the headlight working. It's a little different from the original plan but that's because the switchgear was meant to have the power running through and not using a relay like I am. The lefthand switchgear works as follows: Blade Up = Lo Beam, Blade Centered = Hi Beam, If on Lo Beam the Top Button will flash the Hi Beam. The headlight is master controlled by the switch on the headlight shell. The wiring is, ahem, dodgy, so some cleanup will be required but as long as I go in a label everything, it will be ok, right? We also got the new Proddy exhaust mounts on, except I didn't have enough of the rubber mounts so one side has one for now. The exhaust pipe touches the primary covers so I have some more tweaking to do. We then pulled it off the bench and tightened the front and rear wheels. When kicking it over there was some clunking so off came the primary cover and the belt was so loose it was skipping. Probably happened when we adjusted the rear wheel? Dunno. Adjusted the tranny and took care of the belt. Back off the bench and I let my brother start it up, mostly because he actually has way more experience kicking a Norton. Considering it hadn't run since, hmmm, maybe September, it took about 10 kicks and she fired up. When warmed up she idled (according to the tach) about 900ish. When then took turns riding it up and down the alley.
Best day ever.
And because I care:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ0duSHKV1o[/video]
It was a rare 65 degree day and we took advantage of it. Won't be like that again for a while. But more stuff to do. That 750 is a beast. Far too much fun. :mrgreen: