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Glad you understand! Not that I'm glad you're all busted up, but you know where I'm coming from. I always grab the front brake before I hit the starter, even though I don't need to, just habit. Been riding a long time, always done it that way.

Solenoid is bad or not getting voltage.

Well, it howled for about 5 minutes and shut up for most the day, then on my way home started again. It seems when I get about 40mph, it gets irritated and howls. Under 15mph it shuts up, but comes back when I get some speed. Maybe it's the mechanism in the dash. I can here it rotating and varies with speed. So it's something to do with that cable. There must be a gadget in there that takes the mechanical drive and converts it to digital output, is that right?

Zooming around today started getting an obnoxious squeal, determined it's the speedo cable.  I assume I can get at it through the service panel under the handle bars and squirt something down it.  Is it that easy, or do I have to strip the thing down to nothing to get at it?

Well, this is interesting. I took the maintenance panel off and tried to find that green on white wire coming out of the harness. The green on white wire does not come out! I figured the two wires from the brake light would just go into the harness from the handlebar switches. They don't, they jump into the switch housing where the start button is. Maybe it splits right there and not under all those covers. The light is bad now so tomorrow morning I'll take a closer look. That would be great!
This scooter is really an enigma. I've doubted the 2100 miles on a scooter as old as this. But what I see under everything is clean, not dusty and cruddy like you would expect. The guy I got it from had two other scooters, beat to hell and outside under a cover. This thing was in his garage. I think he got this thing for nothing, had it serviced and new tires put on, and flipped it. As far as I can tell, it's a nice scooter and it should have been used.

The front has to come off. Had to put it back together, I need it in a couple days when my truck goes into the shop. From what I could see, everything from the front cover back looked intact. It has to be between the handle bars and the tunnel (middle section). What a pain in the back this thing is! I'm done for a while.