I am in the middle of updating, painting and trying to run the wiring on my 89 GS 500. Where is the best place to hide the wiring with the standard seat? I removed the side plastics and I am planning on putting on a cafe racer seat and getting an anti gravity battery. I want a clean look and want to hide the rectifier, battery and wiring harness. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. Not sure how to upload images or I would show the bike, I am putting the wires back where they were. I know this does not look appealing but I just want to ride and will spend more time on it this winter.
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I am looking at this very problem. If you are useing the std seat most of the wiring is easy enough but the starter relay/fuse and rectifier are problems because of the lack of hidingplaces. I have a carbon batterybox in which I have hidden most of the stuff but the rectifier and relay are out in sight, and that is with a LiFePO4 tiny battery and the std side rear covers. BTW the rectifier SHOULD be in good airflow or it will cook in most climates.
You will have to do a bit of wiring addition to move them.
If my second project ( after the current weight reduce, modernization one) is a cafe racer I will probably split the entire loom and move everything to hiding places and shorten when possible.
SOMEONE SAY CABLE MANAGEMENT? this is about as good as it gets without cutting the stock loom. and moving plugs around. YES the r/r is screwed to the side of the airbox. holes add :whisper: character.. :woohoo: and considering the r/r is stuffed under the rear plastics without much "airflow" just "air pocket" dunno how much it actually needs, but I did notice mine got warm, but not so much I wanna remove my hand because it burns in the middle of the day.
Oh and ignore the cardboard. Making templates for some sheet aluminium ATM.
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Thanks for the replies, it seems like it is going to just take time and being creative. I will post pictures once I figure out how to do that...