Part 3
I’ve eagerly awaited this day since picking up the bike from Twizzle just after Christmas. I knew I wanted some decent aux lights and the Denalis have well and truly delivered on that score. What was meant to be Fridays trip, canned due to far too icy, snowy and frozen condition rearranged to a lovely sunny Monday. That didn’t stop the roads from being absolute caked in salt. My poor baby!
I headed up to “A Bike Thing” based in Chilcote, North West Leicestershire at around 0630 this morning, to rectify these lights! Granted they don’t look too bad here…
Clear roads (mainly motorway for fears of black ice on the backroads!) and a very warm welcome including freshly ground espresso greeted me as I rolled up to every man caves dream.
The guys were a little nervous to work on something so old (the oldest bike they’ve had in their little tinker shop) and Tom, the tech working on my bike, having owned a 2003 R1150GSA in the same colour scheme was like a pig in shit once the seat was removed and he saw what a stellar job the previous owners had done maintaining her.
I hate anything electrical based - scares the shite out of me. As a pipe fitter / welder by trade I declare myself a metal man and let someone else do it for me.
I chose a set of Denali D3 driving lights wired into the switchgear as well as the absolute monster sound bomb horn as well. It fitted perfectly were I believe the ABS servo used to sit!
Tom took approx. 3 hours to wire everything in, test and reinstall the tank. Perfectly fine when you have fast WiFi, good coffee and aircon to keep you warm! Finished product :
And front on, in the dark once home :
Doesn’t do it justice but the spread of these lights are incredible. When Dave and I tour next we should be able to see into the future with these!
Ignore the fuel odometer - I didn’t even realise that was a thing but 325 miles in the saddle and I was grinning like a Cheshire Cat when I got home. Despite the cold and salt! I absolutely love this bike. She’s now tucked away, after having a very long cold blast of water to try and get rid of all that salt, a proper deep clean is on the cards for Friday.
Part 4 soon!
Now a question for the hive mind : Twizzle reported the fuel gauge had malfunctioned, once the tank was reconnected the gauge was appearing to be reading true. Couple with my maths and a range of approx 250 miles I thought it was all ok. I didn’t get a fuel light after the last bar disappeared, and when I brimmed the tank, the gauge read zero again! Any ideas or fixes?
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I must dig them out and get them painted and installed. 
