Stranded Copper Spagetti

I think I just made the worst wiring harness ever in the history of motorbikes. Good god, I feel dirty in a strange way. Kind of like right after eating a pile of fried food or doing some freaky bedroom stuff. I feel disgusted with myself, but also satisfied and I'm glad I did it.

It's my first wiring harness, ever, so I should theoretically improve each time I do this. It's only up from here!

The abomination I'm calling a wiring harness isn't even done, though. The running lights are hooked up, the high and low switch should work for the head light and the kill switch works. The brake lights aren't hooked up  and one of the switches for the brake light in the lever is real messed up and I don't even have a blinker relay for the turn signals to make them flash. I might just do that manually with the switch... or just skip the whole thing. I did use the multi-meter to check the bulbs and circuit in the turn signals and I'm pretty sure they're good. Either that or nothing electrical on the bike works and I've been using the multimeter totally wrong. The chances are probably 50/50.

I do definitely want to hook up the horn though. I hope it sounds like roadrunner. Meep Meep! The bike def won't move like roadrunner but I hope I at least get the noises.

I think I've done enough to keep myself from getting pulled over too quickly, which is the main goal, besides making it run.

Perhaps I'll post my crudely hand drawn wiring diagram when I'm done. It's going to be ugly but it'll probably be easier to understand than the one in the Honda shop manual. I wonder who over at honda thought it was a good idea to make a diagram of more than a half dozen different colored wires printed in only black and white. Wiring diagrams are confusing when they're in color, but making a black and white wiring diagram is brutal.

The next thing I have to do, other than try to take care of some of those dangling wires, is check the transmission fluid situation. I'm still not totally sure which screw to pull in order to drain the thing, but I'll pull screws till I find the right one.

I guess that's it for today.