Comments from Kent:
The bike is set up for winter riding as you can see. Since I live as far north as Fairbanks, Alaska,
that means a lot of riding in the dark. The front headlight is sort of standard issue for night riding
around here. They're made by a company further south and uses a standard Volvo headlight insert that
takes regular H4 bulbs.
I've retrofitted a 1999 ignition cover with Ducati Energia stator on this bike. All that's needed is
a 6 mm spacer and some juggling with the cables to avoid them touching the flywheel. To get the most
power out of the Ducati stator you must change it from two separate circuits to one single one. This
is easy and involves just moving two cables on the stator itself. Also the standard GG rotor is replaced
with a MegaWatt Sweden rotor. This allows me to use a total of 210 Watts from this system. The standard
EC system is good for only 75 watts.
I use a 60 Watt H4 bulb in the front headlight and a 20 Watts worth of heaters for the grips. I use
the rest of the capacity for my helmet lights, 4x50 Watts.
For a standard EC I would recommend using two 35 Watt lights on the helmet and nothing on the bike as
helmet lights are superior to regular bike mounted lights when riding tight trails.
For the true EC bikes with the big electrical harness it's real easy to install heated grips.
I use the HI/LO kit that's sold by White Brothers. You can use the turnsignal circuit by removing the
turnsignal relay under the seat and connecting the yellow and orange wires together. This way you
can use the turnsignal connection points to connect the grip heaters and the turnsignal switch to
operate them. On the White Brothers kit the LO function is obtained by way of a resistor. This is
no good as it'll still use 20 Watts at LO. Replace the resistor with a diode. You can get one at your
local TV repair shop. This will result in only 10 Watts being used at LO.
More details:
I use a Cycra YZ disc cover and DSP CR fork guards. When I installed the Cycra handguards and realized
that the upper triple clamp bolts were 7 mm and this was followed by a long period of cursing. Then I
drilled and tapped for 8 mm bolts and made the little angled spacer so I could use the bolts to hold
the handguards.
I've got an old Unic steering damper which fits my Scotts clamps since the Unic was is the grandfather
of the Scotts damper. When Unic went out of business Öhlins bought the patent and now makes them.
Scotts are only allowed to market them in US under their name.
I'm running CR Hi bars raised 16 mm from standard. The skidplate is CRD and the frame guards as well.
The rear disc protector was made by my good friend Heinz in South Africa.
