I am cleaning up some of the wiring on my bike and am curious what the brown wire that goes to the bulb marked "side light" is for. It has a female bullet connector on it but no obvious place for it to plug in. Keep in mind that I no longer have the stock headlight or gauges so I may not need this wire at all.
(http://www.bbburma.net/Scans/Haynes_WiringDiagram_US_90-96.jpg)
It only runs the tail running light.
We don't have front running lights so the wire in the front goes nowhere.
On "F" models there is a running light in the headlight and it operates that. Some old style round headlamps have a running light (like ones from Europe) and it is used to operate that.
For a stock USA model "E", it is not doing anything.
That is what I assumed. Thanks!