Well, there have been a few developments that were documented in other places such as the conversion to the full GL1200 hydraulic clutch.
See here; http://www.ngwclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22248
That took a little while after I got back from the US with the knowledge that it was feasible. As luck would have it, there was one on eBay sitting waiting for me!
I also had a couple of other ideas while I was rooting around in Cyborg's shop, one of which was the fitting of an oil pressure gauge.
Not a new idea as such, as I had already got a gauge off Sunnbobb some time back, but a new way of doing it.
Sunnbobb's gauge had a black face which I felt didn't fit in with the white dials I had spent considerable time doing, and also was mechanical which was going to make it difficult to fit where I wanted it.
Anyway, I found this nice white faced electronic gauge for not a lot of money from a dealer in Scotland! http://www.mcgillmotorsports.co.uk/
(This is one of the nice guys in the motor trade; very helpful, very fast and cheap!)
The gauge.

The complete kit. Ignore the crinkled ring! I had already started to take it off at this point.

Two dismantled gauges!

Finished job! Looks as though it was meant to be there.

The gauge is very much deeper than the old fuel gauge which means some pretty drastic surgery inside the shelter. The old gauge bracket has to be cut off and a new deeper one fabricated and the front shelter housing cross member needs a chunk taken out of it. Where the cuts were made I've folded the edges over to give it back some strength and it seems rigid enough.
The sender is huge! Initially I was going to put in the same place as the OEM pressure switch but........

although it cleared everything, just, I realised that removing the carbs would be next to impossible without removing the switch as well.

So this was the solution. An 1/8" NTP to 18x1.5 mm adapter screwed in to the oil gallery at the back of the engine and the gauge fitted to that.

Not a lot of clearance for the brake pedal but enough.

The LED light in the gauge was blinding! So I used a 7v regulator from a GL1100, wired into the lighting circuit, to reduce the volts and the brilliance. I did it this way so that it the gauge was only lit when the lights were on; a bit pointless as I always have the lights on!


So there we go. Another of my little fancies come to fruition

Ah, but 'wot abaht de fool gage' I hear you ask!
Funny you should ask that.......................!!