The Hodaka Club Forum

Good issue. March 2017
Enjoyable as always.

In Athena Chronicles Ben Schenk laments the fading availability of Kill Switches. Simply Hodaka has/had a pushbutton kill switch that I intend to get some day.
I have lukewarm opinion of most aftermarket motorcycle switches I've seen. However I have used one brand of switch for about ten years and have found it be very well-made and reliable. I have problems pasting links from my smartphone, but Google "eastern beaver switch" and it should come up. The switch I use is at the top of the page. I'll work up a short article here and put something in the Resonator to supplement Ben's article.

I checked out the Eastern Beaver's site and it has lots of good quality wiring supplys. I'm working on a RoadSquirt and will be needing good quality connections. I'll be trying some of theirs!! Good comment.

LBM

Ive been getting mine here! Easy to use, all brass connectors & great shields/insulators too! Very reasonably priced in a good starter packet and all of the styles the Hodakas use! Victor

http://www.cycleterminal.com/bullet-terminals.html

Wait, are we talking about an old Resonator or is the new one out and I didn't receive a copy?

The brand-new March 2017 current issue.

Richard, Gregg Floren emailed the new Resonator to all club members on the 10th. If you didn't get yours just login to the club website and download the latest issue.
http://www.hodakaclub.org

Thanks Bill, got it.

On another note, here is a good source for MC electrical stuff mentioned earlier.

http://www.flandersco.com/Images/PDF/El ... atalog.pdf

Got mine! Always enjoyable to read. Thank you to everyone who contributes.

Got my email of the Resonator today. But I already finished reading it! LOL! Victor

Comments on the kill switches. I think the 73 and 74 Elsinore 125 and 250 used an almost identical kill switch. Wire length may be the only difference. I believe this is what's driving the cost and availability of these switches to exceed $200 if you can find one.

Read about switches so I opened an old box and found 2, I have to look them up to see what they fit but they do work.
MTRob

Since everybody has gone to integrated switch/control perch combos, individual switches, and OEM single switches have gotten very dear.

The Eastern Beaver is the best quality switch I've found. Here are a couple of photos of that switch in a Hodie Kill Switch application:

For those who read my article "The Chasing of the Hare" in the latest Resonator, there's even more to the story by way of a chance happening tonight in a strange sort of way. Kinda long story, but my wife and I entered a photographic/art competition and the judging was tonight. I friend's (who I see only every few years) wife also entered the art competition. My friend Sam was an old motorcycle racer from long ago and I asked him tonight if he participated in that Hare and Hound race. Not only did he participate but was following the Honda rider that crashed on the bridge behind me in the story. He stayed with the downed rider and went to the hospital with him and didn't finish the race (or get arrested!) He did stop at the highway crossing he said! Just a strange addition to the story and we laughed and related tonight about the adventure from over 50 years ago. Stories persist for long periods of time and tonight they crossed yet another time. Wow.

Max

And that, my friends, is exactly why this "thing" we do is so totally cool!

Exactly, Matt. Last year I decided to take up "trail biking", "dirt biking" again and wanted to get the vintage motorcycle that I lusted after in my youth. I'm already a year-round rider of a '73 BMW, so this choice of offfoad bike not a big change in thinking. Back in the day the Hot Hodie was the new Ace 100 fitted with Ceriani forks, and top-end mods to make it a tad zippier. Which, from a 1967 perspective, describes a '70's DirtSquirt or Wombat (more or less). Just getting into offroading again, it probably would have better sense to get a Big Four small-bore of a more recent vintage. But I wouldn't have had the "Hodie of my Dreams".

But enough of this prattle. Warmish dry weather this weekend. Lets go ride.

Never heard the word prattle except from my old grandpa Jessie a good Missourian. He used to say to grandma Rosie, prittal prattle goes your tongue on a pivot it is hung. ---------Clarence

Me pop was from Missouri. Must have picked it up from him.

While we are still in this Resonator subject there is a question I have been wondering about for at least 2 years. This may be a question for Bob or Gregg. What caused the jump from Version 1 to Version 2 in June of 2011? There were 13 Version 1's and we are up to 23 Versions 2's.

Am I the only one that has wondered this? Must be my inquiring mind.

Do you mean V1 V2 and V3 as in Volume 1, 2, or 3? I was wondering the same thing. Seems that we should have gone from V2 to V3 in 2017.

Yes, V1 V2 and V3 as in Volume 1, 2, or 3. V2 started in the middle of 2011 so it don't seem to have anything to do with the year.

I never have a complaint with the Resonator but I do have a couple of observations. On the list of past and present issues, the type is in blue on a gray background which is really hard to read at least on my computer. How minor is that? Next, someone has added an E to my name of Good making making me Goode in the credits. Goods hate this as it looks to be Goode as in Goody two-shoes. Just sayin'.

Ok, I'm running out of things to write today and I'm off to accomplish much more important things.

Maxie Good

Running out of things to write. You just brought up the Goody two shoes now the rest of the story. Karen Goody was born in Durland Kansas in about 1927 and the economy was bad. Mr goody was not wealthy but neither was he poor. The Hilners just down the road, an immigrant family from Austria were very poor, they could not afford shoes for all their five kids. The eldest girl Betty May did get new shoes, the others got one shoe and had to hop to school. But Karen Goody always had new fancy shoes and therefore became known as Goody two shoes, Again hats off to Kansas. Another day of history that is all bull. -----Clarence

Who's run out of things to write? Funny Clarence. I've somehow been typing all morning and should and hopefully will go and accomplish something useful today. Good story, no, Great story, the Goods will like this one!

Off to do things,

Max

Bill--
Then it is a mystery. I've always assumed that "volume" went by year.

Max--
On my 'puters the issue index is black text on a white background. Your colors may be due to how your reader is configured or how your 'puter is set up.

Great story Clarence!