On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:34:34 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

I raced that exact bike in my youth. That limey bike sticks to the
pavement like glue. You can lay it over enough to get scratch marks on
the foot pegs. I no longer have the balls for that sort of thing
though.

I had a '53 Thunderbird, biggest problem was not wiring but a
stud that held the magneto kept stripping allowing it to flop out.

Alan