I did it again... Bought a baby blade to rebuild...

What do you think caused it?
Rider error :D
I was just pootling along coming back from the MOT, and it's a tight little couple of bends in a S shape, left then right, and just as I rounded the left, I saw a big Ford Ranger coming towards me and must have tapped the front brake, and that was enough to low side.
He did nothing wrong, it was just a big vehicle taking up a lot of road and I over-reacted.
 
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Lets get this thing cleaned up!!

This is what took most of the impact, the front support for the fairings/lights/clocks.

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With a bit of fiddling we are back to this:

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You can see my little bodges to get the wires reconnected to get me home, just to the left of the forks in the above pic. It would seem that quite a lot of the wiring was knocked about, but mostly still doing it's job. I suspect I will re-pin and replace the connectors with a lot of them to be sure they work reliably going forwards.

I grabbed a little digital dashboard from China. It's one of the few I could find with a rev counter that went up to 15k, and a physical speedo cable, that had the same ratio (I hope!) as the original.
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Mocked up roughly, looks like I need to move that brake fluid reservoir. Not a major issue :)
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Some of the stripped off parts :)
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Sticking in the new light bracket
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More mocking up
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Checking out that the wiring is as per the "documentation" provided!!

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