Midnight Shadow
 

In May 2016 I suddenly turned 55.....

There had to be something special as a birthday present.
Since my Sister and Father would rather stick to conventional gifts (like socks or a nice checquered tie...)

....I decided it was time for the Midnight Shadow. (2005 / Honda VT750 Shadow RC50 )

Somewhere in Bad Kissingen county (Happens to be the hometown of Henry Kissinger.. btw)

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I already installed an LSL Butterfly Bar and a small rack for my luggage roll.

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I will change the headlight too, since Honda decided to do a menacing design experiment,as a standard one, on the RC50.

Let some good times roll!

That is one "Bad" black bike.

Wunderschön

Modification #3
 

Next thing i did was to interchange the original (bulge) Headlight for a "traditional" design.

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However... The The turn indicator relais is located within the Headlight and originally is protected against vibrations, by a rubber mount.

I thought it would work also by just "cram" it behind the reflector (at least for a day or two...)

I fried it..or shaked it to death within an hour or two.

Have to replace it asap. This time, taking care of a proper place and mount.

Ooops! Strange place for a relais. Couldn t you just mount it somewhere else altogether, in a rubber mount. Are you going to replace those indicators as well?

Nice bike for touring, you could go to Sweden on it!

The replacement relay is still inside the headlight housing., this time protected by some rubberfoam.
It works alright.
The Indicators will stay.
Besides that i´m always willing to start experiments.. like riding exotic Motorcycles..i´m pretty conventional if it comes to design matters.
In fact, i think, the original indikators add positively to the Bike.

Beautiful bike. Very classy and clean. Those Shadows ride very nice and are very good in the turns also. Enjoy!

Lovely machine! I hope we see many pics from you as you travel Europe.