Sleeping while it smokes!!!

I was watching tv last night and done what most guys do fall a sleep. I woke up to MMA on tv watched a fight got to thinking about my chop. Then some sorta weird feeling came over me like it was stolen or something like that. I jumped up went an got the door opener it started to open. I thought WTF as smoke rolled out the garage. I ran out and start pulling wires of the bike. Its a real nice early 70's long bike I just finished re doing at last year. Smoke was rolling off the coil, voltage reg, out the points cover and the wires. I WAS BEING A CHEAP FUCKER AND BOUGHT A CHEAP EBAY WAR BIRD LIGHT. I dont wanna spend $3-500 on a tail light I can get one for $45. Well thats what shorted out and melted. So I guess the moral of the story is buy the good parts not the cheap over seas shit. Old bike dont like cheap shit their like a classy lady. You give them fine wine if you want that a$$.....

you may want to consider a circuit breaker or two and a fuseable link. a tailight short shouldnt have got that far.
not that safety is 70s period correct lol.

+1.......... no reason to spontaneously combust.

at least you got that gut feeling and caught it before you lost everything.

Now its just another excuse to spend more money on it

The funny part is I did use circuit breakers it nust have hung open I guess

Whoa! It must have been a really "cheapy"... some of the stuff that's re-popping today is spot on (the drag specialties rectangular cast light, wow, solid), but some of the shit (like those $16.00 catseye's) are pieces of shit from every way you look at it. $300-$500 is "chopper elite" crazy, nothing wrong with a good solid $50-$100 gem of a rear end. There's plenty available from the (plug) advertisers here. Stay the hell away from discount mail order catalogs...

dude. fuck. that sucks.