If you are a motor/tech head like me, building a GL1100, most likely in time you'll end up (for some reason or another) looking for a good right hand switch, I've been all the way down this road and around the block before and spent $100's finding one that really works, and eventually I did, a couple of years ago.
Now I find myself with a headlight issue that could be the HID ballast, the bulb or the starter button. It's intermittant failure has had me scratching my head for weeks, so I buy a whole new HID kit but in the back of my mind, while it's on it's way from China is, is it the starter button?
Because when my non-motorcycling nieghbor was helping me troubleshoot he seemed to indicate that sometimes the light would cut out and return when I pressed the starter and sometimes not.
So the upshot of all this angst is this, (and believe me this bike fills me with angst, the closer it gets to being actually finished.)
I found a guy selling brand new right hand switches with 100% seller rating on ebay for $90, (and having in the meantime bought another total failure with a broken handlebar nipple and wasted yet another $30.) I thought I'd give him a try!
I eventually offered $80 and he took it, this badboy arrived today and the thing even smells brand new. So if you wanna save some money in the long run, here's a link if you're interested:-
https://www.ebay.com/itm/160973223802...ht_1761wt_1105
But wait until this time tomorrow though, I shall certainly report on it's performance, whether it fixes my headlight or not, because I am also in receipt of all the stuff from China as well right now.
Now I find myself with a headlight issue that could be the HID ballast, the bulb or the starter button. It's intermittant failure has had me scratching my head for weeks, so I buy a whole new HID kit but in the back of my mind, while it's on it's way from China is, is it the starter button?
Because when my non-motorcycling nieghbor was helping me troubleshoot he seemed to indicate that sometimes the light would cut out and return when I pressed the starter and sometimes not.
So the upshot of all this angst is this, (and believe me this bike fills me with angst, the closer it gets to being actually finished.)
I found a guy selling brand new right hand switches with 100% seller rating on ebay for $90, (and having in the meantime bought another total failure with a broken handlebar nipple and wasted yet another $30.) I thought I'd give him a try!
I eventually offered $80 and he took it, this badboy arrived today and the thing even smells brand new. So if you wanna save some money in the long run, here's a link if you're interested:-
https://www.ebay.com/itm/160973223802...ht_1761wt_1105
But wait until this time tomorrow though, I shall certainly report on it's performance, whether it fixes my headlight or not, because I am also in receipt of all the stuff from China as well right now.
