Very sneakily the SR500 sidecar has made its way towards becoming a veritable and reliable daily. Until about two weeks ago, when very suddenly the headlight started to fail, which together with admittedly rather improved weather conditions meant that the old Dre-XT-Stück was pressed back into service.
After a bit of wiggling, especially on the blue cable coming down from the
right hand side switch cluster, the light worked again.
A slight bit of pulling then made everything fall apart permanently.
Luckily after some rummaging in my parts stash I found an even more knackered right handlebar switch from a XV750SE and borrowed a new plug. (Yes I know, you can buy those plugs from Kedo, they don't actually cost a fortune... but I wanted to fix it now.)
Whilst I was at it, it was really about time to reposition the front right pin holding down the sidecar cover as over the last two years the cover had stretched quite a bit. As is indicated by the fact that this is now the third time to reposition the pin. (I should really patch up the old holes...)
And last but not least - the turn signal indicator - the bulb had simply burnt out. Now it works - doesn't work - works - doesn't work - works ... 😉
So next in the cards is a proper big 30k service with oil-change and adjusting the valves and then we're probably even ready for the upcoming MOT.
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