Look at that wiring harness! I've removed the tank from my Sportster to finish the rattle can paint job. The picture is along the backbone of the bike. While I have relocated the coil, so some wiring is re-routed back instead of forward to the original coil mount under the tank, look at that monstrous amount of wiring for what is a pretty basic bike! No Gucci electronics like cruise, radio, accessory power-just the basics according to DoT, CARB, and H-D. But that is 2 wiring looms both of which are about 1 inch in diameter. How much is needed for ignition, turn signals and a brake light? Really.Everything "beneath" the rail (in the picture) is all wiring. I'm going to see if I can tuck more of it up out of sight, but previous attempts failed and I don't want to mess with the frame and route it internally. If I was better at wiring and what electricity is required where, I would take everything off, buy an older wiring harness and start over, but that is beyond my ability to manage trons and the magic blue smoke. Guess I'm living with this excessive wiring eyesore. Yuck.
Will finish sanding the tank tonight and shoot paint sometime over the next few days. I'm awaiting chrome cash certificates for the fork seals, so I probably will get the tank back on and keep running the bike using the "bandana on the forks" trick to keep from wearing too much more fork oil. Good thing it smells pretty much like veggie oil!
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