Intro: I'm an experienced street rider with about 100,000 miles on BMW K bikes. I've completely rebuilt two of them from the ground up and done tons of electrical mods so I'm not afraid of doing my own wiring.
I recently got the itch to buy a supermoto and on Friday I bought a 2005 450 SMR.
Here's the required pic of my new toy:
It was advertised as "I've got everything to make it street legal." Well, yeah, sort of. I don't think it's ever been street legal but at least I have a plate for it and the plate number is already on the title so registering it shouldn't be a big deal. I was told that it's been upgraded to a Trailtech stator and stuff.
So here's what I got in my box of parts that came with the bike:
1 - Four little Lockhart Phillips turn signals. I've already figured out how and where to mount these.
2 - A nifty little aftermarket LED running/brake/license light that will fit nicely under the rear fender. I'll need to fabricate some mounting hardware to get that and the plate on the bike but I've got that figured out.
3 - The rear brake switch is already installed. No connector on the end, just bare wires. I tested it and it works.
4 - No front brake switch. But I've got a switch from a BMW in my basement and I've figured out a way to install that to work with the KTM brake lever.
5 - A KTM headlight. I installed that today. The front brake line is a little short to make it over the front of the new headlight panel so I had to run it behind the panel. No biggie.
6 - What I'm pretty sure is a non-KTM headlight/turn signal/horn combination switch. I used a continuity tester and have figured out the wiring on that.
7 - No horn. I've got some spare horns in the basement so that's not a big issue.
8 - No mirrors. At least for now I'll get some bar end mirrors on Fleabay so it's at least legal.
9 - A KTM mystery wiring harness. I can read the KTM on the tag but no part number. From looking at the wire colors and some KTM wiring diagrams I've deduced that the little black box I've got attached to the harness is the voltage regulator/rectifier.
Since the lights and switches are non-KTM they have different connectors and won't "plug-n-play" with the KTM harness I have. So I'm thinking that my best bet is to use the regulator/rectifier and some turn signal relays and just build my own wiring harness. I've done lots of electrical mods to my other bikes so I'm not a nOOb at wiring and I think it should all be pretty straightforward.
So my plan would be to take what shows on the wiring diagrams as yellow and white wires from the generator, run those to the regulator/rectifier and then power my lights and horn from the yellow-red coming out of the regulator/rectifier.
Does this seem right to those how know KTMs?
I recently got the itch to buy a supermoto and on Friday I bought a 2005 450 SMR.
Here's the required pic of my new toy:
It was advertised as "I've got everything to make it street legal." Well, yeah, sort of. I don't think it's ever been street legal but at least I have a plate for it and the plate number is already on the title so registering it shouldn't be a big deal. I was told that it's been upgraded to a Trailtech stator and stuff.
So here's what I got in my box of parts that came with the bike:
1 - Four little Lockhart Phillips turn signals. I've already figured out how and where to mount these.
2 - A nifty little aftermarket LED running/brake/license light that will fit nicely under the rear fender. I'll need to fabricate some mounting hardware to get that and the plate on the bike but I've got that figured out.
3 - The rear brake switch is already installed. No connector on the end, just bare wires. I tested it and it works.
4 - No front brake switch. But I've got a switch from a BMW in my basement and I've figured out a way to install that to work with the KTM brake lever.
5 - A KTM headlight. I installed that today. The front brake line is a little short to make it over the front of the new headlight panel so I had to run it behind the panel. No biggie.
6 - What I'm pretty sure is a non-KTM headlight/turn signal/horn combination switch. I used a continuity tester and have figured out the wiring on that.
7 - No horn. I've got some spare horns in the basement so that's not a big issue.
8 - No mirrors. At least for now I'll get some bar end mirrors on Fleabay so it's at least legal.
9 - A KTM mystery wiring harness. I can read the KTM on the tag but no part number. From looking at the wire colors and some KTM wiring diagrams I've deduced that the little black box I've got attached to the harness is the voltage regulator/rectifier.
Since the lights and switches are non-KTM they have different connectors and won't "plug-n-play" with the KTM harness I have. So I'm thinking that my best bet is to use the regulator/rectifier and some turn signal relays and just build my own wiring harness. I've done lots of electrical mods to my other bikes so I'm not a nOOb at wiring and I think it should all be pretty straightforward.
So my plan would be to take what shows on the wiring diagrams as yellow and white wires from the generator, run those to the regulator/rectifier and then power my lights and horn from the yellow-red coming out of the regulator/rectifier.
Does this seem right to those how know KTMs?