Midnight Shadow

[Panic-Pete]

In May 2016 I suddenly turned 55.....

There had to be something special as a birthday present.
Since my Sister and Father would rather stick to conventional gifts (like socks or a nice checquered tie...)

....I decided it was time for the Midnight Shadow. (2005 / Honda VT750 Shadow RC50 )

Somewhere in Bad Kissingen county (Happens to be the hometown of Henry Kissinger.. btw)

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I already installed an LSL Butterfly Bar and a small rack for my luggage roll.

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I will change the headlight too, since Honda decided to do a menacing design experiment,as a standard one, on the RC50.

Let some good times roll!

[BlackBike]

That is one "Bad" black bike.

Wunderschön

[Panic-Pete]

Next thing i did was to interchange the original (bulge) Headlight for a "traditional" design.

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However... The The turn indicator relais is located within the Headlight and originally is protected against vibrations, by a rubber mount.

I thought it would work also by just "cram" it behind the reflector (at least for a day or two...)

I fried it..or shaked it to death within an hour or two.

Have to replace it asap. This time, taking care of a proper place and mount.

[zingshoen]

Ooops! Strange place for a relais. Couldn t you just mount it somewhere else altogether, in a rubber mount. Are you going to replace those indicators as well?

Nice bike for touring, you could go to Sweden on it!

[Panic-Pete]

The replacement relay is still inside the headlight housing., this time protected by some rubberfoam.
It works alright.
The Indicators will stay.
Besides that i´m always willing to start experiments.. like riding exotic Motorcycles..i´m pretty conventional if it comes to design matters.
In fact, i think, the original indikators add positively to the Bike.

[FastDoc]

Beautiful bike. Very classy and clean. Those Shadows ride very nice and are very good in the turns also. Enjoy!

[Weldangrind]

Lovely machine! I hope we see many pics from you as you travel Europe.