Time to make the wiring harness: Power for USB device, GPS, Contour camera, and a battery charge level indicator.
Fully loaded: The kickstand finally got too frustrating, so I had the folks at a welding shop add a couple of inches, change the angle, and put on a bigger foot (in the process we put the spring on wrong - fixed):
Jon, nice job on the stand. You should also consider welding a split tube on the back side of the stand, connected to the lug and fully welded down the sides. Take a look at my side stand thread elsewhere. It strengthens the connection of the tube to the solid lug, where they tend to break.
My tail section break LED went out on the trail. Luckily my riding buddy's family had a shop with tools, including a soldering iron. I ordered a replacement from NZ's cycletreads. My tail has now gone through three iterations. 1. The shop in NY offered to install an LED tail section for my bike. I agreed. They made a very home-brew affair, using a 3mil aluminium plate with a bend, drilling holes through the license plate itself to run the cables, leaving wires out, and using a very fragile plate holder. With no vertical support, the thing vibrated like crazy, and after the first dirt ride the LED strip for the brake light broke. 2. I decided to follow the shop's basic idea but do it myself. I went with a premade kit, the Radiantz Flex Plate 3. This tidied up the cables a bit, was much more solid, and lasted longer, but the 3mil support still vibrated, and over time the leds on the brake strip went out. The vibrations also cracked the metal frame under the tail. 3. I just installed a dirt bike tail (a DRC MotoLED Edge Tail Light Holder) and fabbed something from that using parts of the aluminum plate. Its smaller than the OEM tail by quite a bit, and with more rigid vertical support it vibrates less. I had a welding shop add extra thickness to the metal frame under the tail. Lets see if this does the trick. Lessons learned: Avoid the single-strip LED stuff on dirt because if it fails, you lose the whole light. Don't ask busy shops to get too creative.
One more welding job: (sorry for poor focus - was getting eaten by sandflies) The top mount support for the chain guard snapped off when my chain's master link came apart in some sand. Thank goodness for zip-ties! The nearby garage had a spare link, then I got a new X-ring chain at Queenstown. This time I got a spare link to add to the toolkit.
