i love getting emails from folks around the world. seriously makes my day.
got an email from a dude named Sean from UK. these are his bikes.
550 was in a magazine. pretty cool.

…was bored the other day so I ditched my gauges, put on different fork ears, and dropped the headlight about 8″.
- shitty iPhone pic.

- this pic was taken right afterwards. Yes… i’ve ditched the speedo and tach cables.

Jesus Fucking Christ. My rotor shit out again yesterday.
Where do I start? This is going to be a long post.

So, the 79-82 Honda cb650 has a shitty charging system.
I realized I’ve never made a post explaining in detail. So, here it goes…

Let me back up a step… In the earlier 70′s, Honda’s had a solid magnetic rotor and the housing was filled with oil. This was good. Honda’s rarely ever had charging problems… and if they did… it was because the regulator rectifier went bad, which was easy and cheap to replace.

In 1979, Honda tried a different type of charging system for 4 years. They went with a rotor which was wound up with wires inside of it, and the housing was not filled with oil. Shit would get hot. Real fuckin hot. Long story short… the rotor would often shit out. My rotor shits out about once a year.

Pic below. Left to right.
new rotor, new regulator rectifier, new stator
These are the 3 components in the charging system.

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I was bored the other day, so I took some pics down at FDR.
Messed around with low-lighting. I wanted the bike to look dark and rough. I dunno… just messin around.

… guess I shouldn’t have passed a cop on the shoulder. oops.

- He asked if my license plate was supposed to be mounted in that spot. I said I don’t know.
- He asked why I didn’t have turn signals. I said I don’t know.
He said okay. ha.

And on the ticket where he wrote ‘grey’ for the color… wish he would’ve wrote ‘metal’.