By Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at The Bonneville Shop We didn’t have LEDs when I started professionally wrenching on motorcycles over 30 years ago, but I most certainly wish we did due to the low power requirements.  Done right LED lighting can make riding a battery less bike at night much safer.  People of all skill and knowledge levels tend to have difficulty making LED turn signal lights…

Next in the series shows me checking the air gap of .009” between the rotor and stator, in various positions. I rotate the engine while moving the feeler gauge around the circle, ensuring there is no tight spots. The rotor was in good condition, no “runout” on the end of the crankshaft, and the stator studs are not bent, so this procedure passed with flying colors. “𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚…

By Mike Grage, Customer and Technical Support at The Bonneville Shop Here at The Bonneville Shop we walk people through electronic ignition diagnostics on a regular basis, after all there are very few professional shops willing to work on a motorcycle more than 10 years old.  Since anything electrical can be controversial I want to give the reader a brief overview of my background and qualifications before I get into…