Jerry, I think your solution to this problem is the right one.

My wife use to do crafts and she had a butch of these magnets for refrigerator magnets laying around. They are about a 1/4" dia. x 1/4" long similar to these. https://www.amazon.com/BYKES-Neodymi...words=1%2F4%22

What a relief!

The cat lover in me clicked on this with terrible fear!

:lmao: I figured the title would catch everyone's attention. No worry, no animal harmed in this experiment.

I got some ride time in over the holidays. I took my bike out Saturday and did a WOT run and cut the power then coasted to the side of the road. Pulled the plug to confirm it was running lean. So I drove back home and swapped out the 110 jet to the next size I had. a 115. I took another WOT run and pull over to check the plug. Looks like I will be close. I wish I had a 112 or 113 in my pack of jets to try. I may have one missing as I had two 100 jets. Top speed is still 74 mph (GPS) but gets there a whole lot quicker. :clap: Removing the cat is the best mod so far on this bike. I'm liking my Hawk more and more every time I ride it. I think I'll order an adjustable CDI with no rev limiter because I'm defiantly hitting the rev limit.

Getting an adjustable CDI unit is probably a good idea. I don't agree on the rev limiter. The rev limiter is on there to protect the engine from when the rider misses a shift, or the chain breaks. It is set at 1000 rpm higher than the power peak. On the other hand, if you are hitting the rev-limiter in high gear, it's too short geared and you need to change sprockets.

makes sense , if the operator doesn't have enough sense to hand off the throttle in that event, he probably should not be riding in the first place.

:lmao: I've been riding before rev limiter were invented lol. That's what a tach's for. I haven't ordered my digital cluster yet. (Christmas put a big dent in my Hawk budget) but will have it before I get crazy with the rpm's. not sure what the limit is set at on these Hawks but it sure ain't over reving. I have that built in tach in my ear. lol

Digital tach/speedo
 

Okay, I was looking to purchase a small tachometer and ran across this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J7SN5MK...I24J5Q0Y2S64AK Has anyone on here installed one? The price is right. I have no problem figuring out the wiring. I could replace the whole cluster with this one for $27. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...e5400ef7fe.jpg

Almost all older riders have a built in tach. People forget that tachs only came on super sports type motorcycles, in the old days. And usually you got a tach OR a speedo, not both. BSA Goldstars were the first I recall that had both. Because of Goldstars, my ear tach knows almost certainly where 7200 is by sound alone.

How does one go about finding a cdi box for a magician/hawk?

you be the guinea pig we will follow.

I bought it and it is accurate with my gps when set correctly . The tacho, well...it gave up about a month in. Reset switch for tripometer is in back and hard to reach but is my only choice to keep up with mileage. I paid about the same. It's so cheap I could easily afford a replacement if I had to have the techno but I just really needed it to keep track of mileage.

After reading reviews and watching a few videos I discovered one glitch with it. If you accidently change the in the settings from 1 cylinder to 2 or 4 you could not reset it back to 1. With the luck I have I would of messed it up so I went ahead and through the cheap bastards award out the window and got the digital cluster from Matt. I'm glad I did. It was plug and play with Matt's cluster.

What was the problem with getting the tach to work ?