Cleaning up the controls cafe style.

[gsryder]

I have seen some various pics on here mostly on the cafe style bikes where people have cleaned up / or deleted allot of the extra controls on the handle bars and simplified them. Does any one have any tips or directions as to what wires you disconnect or bypass.

I want to go for the really stripped down bare essentials look.
Clutch, front brake, throttle, thats it.

I have replaced the square head light with round and removed all gauges, key/ignition and mounted a remote switch for ignition only but I would like to do the rest.

Clutch/neutral safety wire (would like to delete)

lights (would like to mount a small switch in/on the headlight bucket)

Kill switch / start button (would like to buy new start switch and relocate)

Not sure how to go about all of this but I would like to do it.

I have a plain throttle tube / assembly I can use but need to figure out where to run the new starter wires to.

The bike is an 81 GS750 with clubman bars on it.

I know allot of people are going to say dont remove all the safety and kill switches but I have been riding for years and never actually needed any of them. Besides I like that clean bare bones look.

Thanks in advance.

[GQROD]

You could keep the stock wiring and just snake the non essential wires through the frame. Exile cycles does this as do most custom bike builders.

[BCWesty]

I did this to 79 850. The clutch/neutral was easy. I just unscrewed the piece on the lever, cut the wires shorter and connected them. I think they were yellow/green. I kept my kill switch, but got rid of the starter button spring and wire inside the housing. The button sits flush now. For my lights I completely changed the wiring. I took the headlight wire to a 2 position toggle switch which runs my hdlight and taillight. . In the hdlight bucket I have a 3 pos. toggle. HI/LO/OFF. There are two wires that ran up to the original hdlight switch that you have connect. the wires were red/white and green/white and had connectors underneath the seat that plugged into each other. Hope this helps. I am not an expert and haven't had my bike running this way yet(carb issues). I have had the ignition on and everything worked though

[seuadr]

yep, like BCwesty said, the neutral switch is really really easy to remove.

[gsryder]

Thanks guys. The one that I wasnt sure about was the lights.

[jed.only]

pics. and id like to do away with the chunky controls entirely.