Electrickery!
In common with every other bike project I have worked on, the K2’s wiring needed a little attention, well, quite a lot of attention actually!
We saw last time that I gave the engine a once-over just to make sure that it was in a condition where I could reasonably expect it to work, and now it was time to do the same thing for the electrics. The first item that caught my eye was the remains of the fuse box (Photo 1). Judging by the connections to the fuse I think they had perhaps been a little overloaded.
One of the improvements which came with the later K3 model was a better fuse arrangement, with no fewer than three of them. But the K2 makes do with a single one, meaning that a fault in something of relatively minor importance can knock out the entire electrical system, leading to an unscheduled stop on an
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