The rain keeps going on through May… these days I really don’t want the rainy season to start.
It’s a CB1300SF. There are all kinds of problems with it…
Want to fit a fairing! → The throttle cable hits the screen dead-on.
Want to add a radial pump! → When you grip it, it hits the handlebar switch and you can’t grip it fully…
So what do we do?
If we make the lever straight, we can avoid the radial pump problem, but the screen won’t work…
If we route the throttle cable down from below it would work, so that’s why we’re combining them.
This is a technique we do pretty often, and the switches and such look STD-style at first glance, which is nice.
The combination of today’s thin switches and aluminum throttle housings feels kind of off.
I don’t like it.
So I ordered one for a CB1000SF. We could rewire it and use it, but I don’t really want to bend the tab once and then
straighten it out to use it again—considering the possibility of trouble, we’ll just use the case!
There we go, all done! We don’t even need to stare at the wiring diagram. But if the switch is worn out, a new one is
better.
Suzuki and others work pretty well too—for oil-cooled models with single-cable carburetors and forced open-close setups, we use switch boxes from the GSF or naked bikes,
and of course the wire is from the naked bike too, so at first glance it looks stock!
It’s got that aged charm to it.
