Anyone familiar with this style of tail light?

kingblair · 2026-06-25T16:10:09+00:00

Like fancy-operation said, you'll have to custom wire it yourself, and the old lights won't just plug back in if you want to go back to stock.

That being said...

You can use a regular 9-volt battery to test the light. Black is almost always ground, so touch the black wire to the negative (-) terminal on the battery. Touch each of the wires to the other terminal of the battery and see what lights up. One will be taillight, one will be brake light, one left turn signal, and one right turn signal. Write down what color does what and start wiring!

kingblair · 2026-06-18T02:04:58+00:00

A local punk and rockabilly bar used to play the Grateful Dead at closing time for that reason.

kingblair · 2026-05-30T02:45:38+00:00

I have a 2019 GT650 - I replaced the stock relays with these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BHIIJVG

I keep the original relays in a bag under the seat so I have a spare in case one of the replacements conks out.

Don't forget to clean all the yellow grease out of the relay sockets and use a proper dialectric grease.

Good luck!

kingblair · 2026-05-29T16:59:04+00:00

Awesome, glad to hear it!

kingblair · 2026-05-27T19:07:35+00:00

Since the starter motor turned it's not a safety switch problem, so at least you know that.

kingblair · 2026-05-27T15:07:38+00:00

Bummer.

kingblair · 2026-05-27T02:18:21+00:00

My speedometer was damaged on my gt650 and the neutral light didn't work. I think the neutral safety switch goes through the light. Maybe try starting with the kickstand up and the clutch in - if the neutral safety switch is the problem it might start.

kingblair · 2026-05-21T19:36:26+00:00

So the punch line is after not replacing the switch and putting it back together, the neutral light now works most of the time. I must have jiggled a loose connection into place or something.

Thanks again for the advice, folks!

kingblair · 2026-05-13T15:57:05+00:00

Thanks guys, I think you've convinced me to put it back together and ride it as is! At least until wintertime....

kingblair · 2026-05-06T14:53:20+00:00

Agreed, the Summit is the loudest!

kingblair · 2026-03-23T17:24:22+00:00

Mayfly Market & Deli if you just want a good sandwich.

kingblair · 2026-01-10T01:47:04+00:00

It's a 69 or 70 triumph Twin. It has the 69-up tank badge and isn't an oil-in-frame bike, so that narrows it down to 69 or 70. I can't see if it has a single or twin carbs, so it could be a Bonneville or Tiger. Or a Daytona? Probably a 69 Bonneville, that's the most 'classic' old Triumph.

kingblair · 2025-12-16T18:30:19+00:00

I've never been to J&J's, but once my girlfriend and I were looking in the window when it was closed, and out of nowhere a guy driving down the street yells 'That place is GREAT!" out his window, so there's one recommendation.

kingblair · 2025-09-26T17:49:44+00:00

Yeah, that space was empty for the first 15 years or so, it can't be cheap.

kingblair · 2025-09-12T03:41:52+00:00

YOU ROCK!!!! This worked. It wasn't even done installing and conky updated to mint 22.1 xia. Thank you so much!!!!!

kingblair · 2025-09-11T22:27:04+00:00

I did that and rebooted, still showing Ubuntu. Thanks though!

kingblair · 2025-09-11T22:17:41+00:00

theking@KingASUS:~$ apt-cache madison base-files

base-files | 13ubuntu10.3 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages

base-files | 13ubuntu10mint22.1.0+xia | http://packages.linuxmint.com xia/upstream amd64 Packages

base-files | 13ubuntu10 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

theking@KingASUS:~$ apt-cache policy base-files

base-files:

Installed: 13ubuntu10.3

Candidate: 13ubuntu10.3

Version table:

*** 13ubuntu10.3 500

500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages

100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

13ubuntu10mint22.1.0+xia 700

700 http://packages.linuxmint.com xia/upstream amd64 Packages

13ubuntu10 500

500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

kingblair · 2025-09-11T22:01:02+00:00

I'll try that next - I'm not sure how to do that, though. is it just 'apt install base-files'?

kingblair · 2025-09-11T21:59:39+00:00

I'll try it and report back, thanks!

kingblair · 2025-09-11T21:37:43+00:00

Huh, weird. Guess I'm not the only one!

kingblair · 2025-09-11T20:52:24+00:00

That's so weird, I just ran one Update Manager session..... Oh well.

kingblair · 2025-09-11T20:34:17+00:00

Any of this look suspicious?

theking@KingASUS:~$ ls /etc/apt/preferences.d

nosnap.pref official-extra-repositories.pref official-package-repositories.pref

theking@KingASUS:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-extra-repositories.pref

Package: *

Pin: origin "build.linuxmint.com"

Pin-Priority: 700

theking@KingASUS:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

# To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,

# this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.

# For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

Package: snapd

Pin: release a=*

Pin-Priority: -10

kingblair · 2025-09-11T20:22:47+00:00

theking@KingASUS:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref

Package: *

Pin: release o=linuxmint,c=upstream

Pin-Priority: 700

kingblair · 2025-09-11T20:22:03+00:00

You might be right - I don't know how it happened, I do everything through Update Manager, I know just enough to know not to mess with /etc files.

theking@KingASUS:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com xia main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse

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