Thanks Mike
I went for the security of fitting a relay switch also which I picked up for a fiver from a local auto-electrics company (Halfords and maplin were useless), with the added bonus of a built-in fuse.
Gathered all the parts necessary for the op and began just before Easter. Everything proceeded with the wiring of the grips following an idiots guide to integrating a relay switch into the storm's wiring though it was daunting to hack into the ignition circuit exiting below the fusebox . All was well till I needed to get some throttle cable slack to get the throttle cables back on the sleeve, so off with tank and airbox to discover a stubborn screw holding the funnel onto the rear carb. After plugging the carb holes and drilling the stuck screw out carefully avoiding swarf hanging around in the airbox by using a super strong Neodymium magnet to pick up the debris I had to wait till Tuesday to get some allen headed replacements which I could loctite secure, thus avoiding the worry of the damage which an errant fixing sucked into the dustbin carb could cause. Also whilst in there I cleaned and reoiled the K&N performance filter.
http://www.knfilters.com/cleaning.htm
Bunged it all together today, with only some head scratching reattaching all the vacuum and breather tubes back on the various connections off the fuel tap and tank despite reference to Haynes and Honda PDF service manual- The most puzzling one was off the tank, the thicker drain tube, next to the smaller breather - As the existing tube 12mm/8mm bore didn't seem to want to refit ?? After some jiggery pokery from some hose adapted from the GPZ viola! I had a working drain adapted to the existing prerouted tube.
A quick test ride round the block to confirm I wasn't going to explode like a napalm bomb, and then onto Sainsbury to pick up a bottle of celebratory plonk wearing summer gloves with the grips on full chat just for the sheer indulgence.
With that done and summer round the corner, does anyone know if there any one who makes chilled grips? ;-)
