Wired and Farts

Tonight, I did all the wiring I'm going to do. Lots of crimp connectors made it happen.

Here's the rundown:

Brake lights should get brighter when the lever is pulled*

The horn is hooked up. I know the horn is good because I hooked it up to a random D.C. power and it beeped. It's got a cute lil beep.

Front and rear lights should work. The high and low beam switch is even hooked up.

The kill switch and the secret disable switch are wired up.

What's left:

Do something about the dangling wire pasta. It seems like it'll get caught on something. Zip ties and/or electrical tape should take care of that

Tape up the seat. I'm pretty sure there's some gaffers tape around the apartment.

Put the headlight back in, and make it slightly more secure.

Get that right hand grip all the way on. Maybe even put the matching one on the left side. Those yellow oury grips are going to look great. The yellow totally matches the yellow in the Honda Express logo

Optional Stuff:

Measure the clearance for those shinko tires I've been eyeing. I hope they aren't too wide. Those fat knobby tires would look killer and I'd love to do a bit of bandit off-roading around the city. I'm not sure where my calipers went to, but they would work really well or this type of measurement.

Wire up the right hand switch for the brake lights. I tried to solder a new wire on earlier, but it came off. I might have to buy a whole new switch. Or I could just not give a fuck.

Install the speedometer cable so I can know how slow I'm going.

Wire up those blinkers. I think if I do any more wiring, I'm going to get a terminal block. At the very least, I'll need some more connectors. I also need a flasher relay thing if I want them to actually blink.  I might just ignore the whole blinker situation and hand signal.

I've also been thinking about a bar swap, but that might create more issues than I really want to deal with. Still, I think a pair of chrome motocross style bars would look way better than the stock awkward ape-hangers.

A fender between the rear wheel and the engine/hoses and wires seems like it would be a good idea. Maybe, I can find an old license plate on the side of the road that I could use.

Install the oil seal under the second piston ring. This should give me better compression and thus more fasterness. It doesn't look big enough though. I  might just leave it out. It'll probably be ok, right?

Stuff I'm worried about:

The bike doesn't have the stock air box/filter on it. I packed the high flow mesh filter with foam, so hopefully the tune won't be too far out of whack but I suspect it's going to get too much air and run lean.

Speaking of air, I need some of the fresh kind. I've been ripping so many horrible, rotten farts all night. I'm so glad my girlfriend went out with a couple of her friends so she wouldn't hear/smell my ass. What the hell did I eat that's doing this? They're loud and they totally reek. I've been laughing at how bad its been all night. I'm surprised the cat isn't dead.
 Most of the time, it's one or the other. I'll have loud but relatively non-stanky farts or silent but deadly ones. Tonight's not normal, they're loud, frequent and noxious. I wonder if it was the steel cut oats I had for breakfast or maybe the snacks from the Asian grocery store yesterday.

Ugh, there goes another one. I'm dying. I'm laughing and crying. It smells like something died in my ass. It sounds like some kind of brass instrument dying. Good god.

And on that bombshell, good night.