Bandit 1200S - wiring extra stuff

I spent a few days catching up on the small stuff that needed to be done, that is, wiring the heated grips through a relay, bleeding the brakes, et cetera.

The Bikemaster Heated Grips did not come with a relay, but I was not comfortable wiring them straight the the battery, so I decided to wire in a relay activated by the tailight (switched source). The wiring itself was easy - one wire to positive, one to negative, one to appliance, and a trigger wire. Routing the wires was more of a pain than anything else.

Since I was doing this already, I decided to wire in a 12V outlet. I snaked two extra wires thought the sleeve that houses the heated grips wires, and connected those to the same relay. Now I have a handy little outlet up front, was charging stuff or for running an air compressor.

Making the wiring as neat as possible: GPS hardwire, outlet wiring, extra marker light on handguards, heated grips . . .

I mounted the controller for the grips on the handlebars

Finally, it is starting to look like a bike

My painter surprised me, and delivered the tank and plastics today. Since I like to do all the wetsanding and polishing myself, I'll be busy doing just that over the next week or so. The paint is still too fresh to do anything right now. We went with a white base shot with red pearl clear, and four coats of clear over it, all in urethane. The red pearl is nicely subtle, but I think it will tie everything together.

And a quick mockup of the tank in place