Last month I started telling the readers of CMM the sad story of the abuse of Donna’s 1988 two-wheeled micro missile so I’m back on with it. Oh my word…
Having established that the carbs had survived being stored for six years in the antithesis of museum conditions, it was time to dig out the crimpers, strippers and cutters and raid Biker’s Toolbox’s stock of ‘thin wall wire’ and terminals, etc.
I dug out an eight-foot long offcut of 12mm plywood that was left over from my workshop build, which I thought would be a perfect layout board for building a new wiring loom on. As I wasn’t expecting to fit any tyres before the wiring was finished, I used the tyre machine’s wheel clamp to grip one end, making it immovable. Iwas quite a bit more modern and therefore more complex than any I had built before, so I had a brilliant idea. Wherever there were branches and bits coming out of the loom I placed a self-adhesive cable tie mount, so that each piece of the loom could be held in place and labelled with the obligatory Sharpie. This really was a moment of inspiration and made building a fairly complicated wiring harness much easier than it might have been otherwise.
