Is it live? Or is it memorex.

So, secretly, or perhaps not so secretly, since I'm writing a blog and putting it on the freakin interweb... I've been worrying about and fretting over and putting off until the end... to deal with all the electrical.

Yeah. That.

Lemme back up a bit... I was looking over some old pictures of some bikes I've owned over the years and one thing hit me. One impression or thought hit me. They seemed bullet-proof. They ran. They worked. 

Most people jump in their car and turn the car and it just works. It works in the morning, works in the afternoon, etc. You get the idea. So I've had many motorcycles and all of them had this in common. They worked.

Except this one.

Now, I only had it for a few days before I tore into it, but even then I just really wasn't sure if it would start getting it to the DMV. Or getting out of the DMV, for that matter. Still, I guess it's not completely fair that I make this assertion about this bike.

But I've seen it naked now, and I know what's making it tick and what's gonna be trouble down the road.

So while it would be really nice to get this bike into that same category and be able to feel like I can rely on it and be comfortable knowing it's gonna work, I've always sort of assumed that riding 'not too far from the safety of home' would be this bikes future. And I was OK with that, since most if not all of this build was an exercise in finding myself plus having something productive and constructive to do with my mind and free time.

Chicks, man.

But now, a revelation has been discovered. One that can change all of that. And, it's only gonna take a lot of money to do!

Figures...

Found a device custom builders use, and since researching have discovered two other similar devices with the same basic principles. A completely self-sufficient device that makes all electrical worries gone.

Lemme just geek out here for a moment, bear with me... 100% solid state power distribution and control module, featuring ignition cut-out, starter relay, turn signal relay, LED relay, replaces all relays, is a fuse block replacement, has an alarm function, and is fully programmable and customizable.

Throw out ALL original wiring. All relays. All fuse blocks. All of it. Everything old and tattered and iffy and make it gone. All new wires, through the entire bike, plug into this unit, turn key, gone.

OMG so easy.

It of course kills the budget like mad and I would have no idea how to wing this purchase, but I'm already working on that part, so will see. Because the thing is, this unit immediately takes the bike from an exercise in project form to an actual, daily, working, fully functional machine.

And that might be reason enough to try and find a way to do this. And besides, it's only food...