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Hey guys doing my first CR project on at 1974 CB350F wondering where you guys have moved your electrical. Looking for options without modifying the wiring harness. I would like to keep electric start so I will be using the "hump" for a small battery. Any pictures and suggestions of where you put your solenoids and other electrical would be greatly appreciated.
leave the electrics where they are behind the side covers. It's neat, functional and 100% cafe racer. No one had the naked ghetto look back in the day.
It also gives you less work and more options on seat design etc without having to tyr to stuff things where they were never intended to go.
Just thinking out loud after looking at a slew of really bad bikes with no sense of style recently.
I moved mine under the hump. It's a lot more work than just extending a few wires. It took me probably 15-20 hours, but I rebuilt my whole harness and fixed a few wiring problems...
i agree teazer think the brit cafe bikes where more about speed and function and just cool ! even tho im going with a very clean look i wonder why people started to clean out the air box area? is it weight saving or just looks? cant see where you would save that much weight? and moving the wires are way more work !
There has to be a balance between Form and Function and function has to come first, followed right after by form. On the Phat Trakka, I tried teh naked middle look and it gave me two problems - logistics/packaging and it didn't look right.
I even tried various different number plate shapes and side panel shapes and none looked right. I'm using 6" long UNI filters so the airbox is not there and that left a gap between tank/seat/side panels. In the end, I modified the side panels to move them forward and then I skinned them in Carbon fiber. What I ended up with was a slimmer bike that looks almost stock in the middle but with a subtle different. It hides the new electrics and new oil tank and battery and keeps them centered.
It just takes a little thought (and piles of discarded drawings).
To me, there are few bikes that actually look good naked in the middle and those with no rear fender just look like someone threw parts away without any regard to function or form. No imagination. I'm not being as critical of builds as that might sound, but the difference between a bike where the details are worked through and a chop job are immediately apparent. The Devil really is in the details. That's what makes a great build IMHO.
here is what my almost finished electrical looks like. Not the greatest but it is all covered up by the seat and i have the "clean look" i was looking for.
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