You remember our pals from Common Motor Collective, right? The little old bike shop from Texas has been serving the needs of small and medium-displacement Honda motorcycle nerds for ten years now and shows no sign of slowing up. Along with parts and accessories, CMC also produces clear, concise how-to videos covering just about everything you might need to know to keep your 70s-vintage CB running. The shop's latest series covers one of the bigger headaches facing classic bike mechanics—electrical systems.
If you wrench on classic bikes, you know how much of a pain their electrical systems can be. Thanks to brittle, rotten, decades-old wires, intermittently failing, 70s-era components, and the ham-fisted hackery of previous owners, chasing down and identifying electrical issues can be a real nightmare. In this latest series of videos, CMC's boss Brenden breaks down a bike's electrical systems into short, easy-to-digest videos to help shade tree mechanics like me diagnose and repair shorts, faults, and other problems.
