Good thing it didn't backfire....you might not be here to tell the tale! I've blown the main fuse on a bike and had to wrap it in a foil lined wrapper from the ditch to get home. I rode my bike about 40 miles to look at another W100 for $500 after work one evening. As I was getting close, it was getting dark, and I realized I had no headlight, my bulb was out on my 650 tiger. I putted down the dark, rutted, gravel road with my turn signal as the only light source. After I met the guy, and bought the non-running truck, I borrowed the battery powered headlight we were using to look at the truck with to use to get back to the pavement. First I wrapped the elastic headband around the bikes headlamp housing, but it shook loose on the gravel road, and I had to ride with one hand holding it up. I stopped and strapped the headlamp on my head and adjusted the strap. It worked good enough to make it back to the interstate, then I got on a big truck's tail and stayed close till my exit. Sure thing, there was a cop car at the only intersection between the interstate and my house. You should have seen the look on his face when ,halfway through the light, I turned my head and looked right at him with that headlight on!
