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Spring has sprung!

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:47 pm
by ScottDR
Well, in Southern Ontario, anyway. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be 11C(51F). Time to ride!
Hope you are all able to ride soon as well.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:21 pm
by Mel46
It has been in the 70s here. Even when it is raining out it is between 65 and 70°F.
Our problem is that it rains a lot during the winter here.
Meanwhile, I am still working on my bike, so it will stay in the basement for a little longer.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:23 am
by ScottDR
Hey Mel, great to hear from you! I've been MIA on the forums...so what are you doing to your PCX? And yes, down South you sure are milder. Been a long weird winter here. Last winter I rode into December and started again in February. Cheers!

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:15 am
by Mel46
I have taken my bike completely apart and have upgraded the headlight by changing the bulbs to HS5, and I am adding 4 additional LED lights into the headlight assembly.
Also, while the bike is apart I am cleaning up some of my previous wiring.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:03 am
by Mel46
Here is what the light assembly looked like recently. I had some of the wires and connectors attached temporarily in order to test the unit before cleaning it up for installation. I am waiting for some special connectors that I ordered before wrapping the wiring and reinstalling the assembly.
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Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:13 am
by ScottDR
Wow! That's quite a project! So HS5 LED? Love mine but my supplier on Ebay disappeared. Where'd you find yours?

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:31 am
by Mel46
Dustin91 sent them to me. They put out a nice beam, much stronger than the original bulbs. Adding the other 4 led lights really lights up the front of the bike too!

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:39 am
by homie
Might hit 60 today in Chicagoland! If I didn't have a full day of run around i'd be firing up the precious. Close, we are getting close YAY!

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:44 pm
by ScottDR
I'm planning on adding switchback white/amber to the "rest of the world" turn signal lenses.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:49 pm
by ScottDR
Ahhhhhhh, sunshine!

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 1:55 pm
by Mel46
I have looked at switchback bulbs but at $22 per bulb they are too expensive for my tastes. (I have seen some for $12 each but that is still expensive for 2.) I have also wondered about hooking them up. Standard turn signal bulbs wait for current from the turn signal relay. To run current to the socket continually and still allow the turn signal current to activate the yellow you will either need a diode externally or internally so the current won't backflow to the relay and burn it out.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:34 pm
by flyingzonker
It is nice around here too...60's from the feel of it. I, of course, took out the PCX this morning. but then, if it had been 15 and the roads were clear I would have taken it out. I have been riding this winter every day when there wasn't flying snow or snow lying on the streets. Zero, and even below. Either I ride every day or the men in white come and cart me away. Since I have been using heated gloves I have absolutely no problem no matter what the temperature. I watch the pavement like a hawk for black ice (not much in evidence around here) and never look back. I don't need to ride for hours...10, 15 mins is good. A half hour is average. I suppose if I had to do a really long ride in zero weather, I might take a moment to ponder the wisdom of two wheels....

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:44 pm
by flyingzonker
Mel46 wrote:I have taken my bike completely apart and have upgraded the headlight by changing the bulbs to HS5, and I am adding 4 additional LED lights into the headlight assembly.
Also, while the bike is apart I am cleaning up some of my previous wiring.
I admire your courage. I might like to have leds but somehow my desire is not as strong as my distaste for pulling apart the bike. I have already done it several times and it has gotten to the point that if I do it again I will have to buy new plastic to put it back together again. Half the tabs and hooks on my farings are broken, missing , or deformed. Truth to tell, this bike is not a DIYer's chosen province. It is nightmarish to work on, especially in the cold. I don't know how you ever got one into a basement...unless you have elevator access or a ramp.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:07 pm
by ScottDR
Mel, these seemed to be the bees knees but the latest reviews have me worried. KaTur 1156 BAU15S 7507 PY21W on Amazon

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:33 pm
by ScottDR
Oh, and I bought them last summer and haven't installed them yet. :(

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:48 pm
by 212
Spring isn’t in the UK yet It was snowing hard this morning so I took the van to work, took me nearly 50mins longer than it does by PCX :(
Although on the way home I did have the fun of recreating the Millennium Falcons jump to light speed by putting high beam on and driving fast into the snow blizzard.

Your headlight wiring job looks very tidy, we love to see a photo of it lit up

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:29 pm
by you you
212 wrote:Spring isn’t in the UK yet It was snowing hard this morning so I took the van to work, took me nearly 50mins longer than it does by PCX :(
Although on the way home I did have the fun of recreating the Millennium Falcons jump to light speed by putting high beam on and driving fast into the snow blizzard.

Your headlight wiring job looks very tidy, we love to see a photo of it lit up

It doesn't feel like spring with the snow. 170 miles to work and back in a car that couldn't be less suitable. I like the millennium falcon analogy :lol:

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:31 pm
by ScottDR
Love the Star Wars reference too. Paints quite a picture! Hehe

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:19 pm
by 87112
Most overrated city in the Usa still struggles to hit 50 degrees and its March. Lovely.

Its SEATTLE.

Re: Spring has sprung!

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:31 pm
by PCX150Rider
It was nice today. . .too wrapped up in car stuff to get time to ride.

Tomorrow. . .hope springs eternal.

On Friday we are supposed to get 40MPH winds. . .higher gusts. . .and rain.

What the heck??? :o