setbacks

I was heading out for a run this morning and was just about to leave my garage when the skies opened. It's been raining like the monsoon season in India for days now so I reckoned that I'd be better off doing my spanner-work while the rain fell and wait for the sun to come out again to ride. At the time that seemed to be the sensible way round.

So, I spent the next hour or two shifting my rear indicators. Took me a while to decide just where to situate them.

I was actually happy with them in the place they were, just to the rear of the seat but as they got in the way of the saddle-bags they needed to go in a more orthodox position at the back of the fender support. I also had to be careful that they didn't obstruct the fitments for the removable side-plates for the sissy-bar.

I finally decided, stripped down the side plates and fender support, fitted it all back together again and as the sun had reappeared thought to myself, "Time now to get out on the road".

Wasn't to be as one of the indicators wasn't indicating.

After trying a few different possibilities before stripping it all back down again, the inevitable hade to be done.

After another hour I got to the root of the problem. A soldered joint had come apart inside the indicator body itself.

Soldering it back together again is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a big job, but as I've no power in my garage, everything had to be taken apart, taken round to the flat and soldered. Then I had to go back to the bike to test it before heading back once more to electricity and a heat gun to shrink wrap the joint.

I'll leave putting everything back together for the morning. Then I'm off out for a ride come rain or shine.

Though that will be without the luggage rack. The one I got from e-bay is for an earlier model with a narrower wheel and sissy-bar. That one will be back for sale tomorrow but I doubt if I'll be able to find another, correct one soon. To buy it new would be about three times the cost so it WILL wait!