The taillight and license plate assembly came off tonight after a few days away. The amount of biomass on and in this motorcycle is pretty incredible. I'm displacing a lot of spiders.

 All of the back-end lighting comes into one bracket which holds the brake light and license plate. I took it apart piece by piece and then removed the underlying bracket. I reassembled everything for safe-keeping, and will replace components as needed.

 This also marked the first solder that I had to break, which I was futilely hoping to avoid. So a soldering gun will be a birthday or Christmas present this year, hopefully. Tomorrow I hope to get to the exhaust removal for some really visible disassembly progress. Slow going (mostly after the kids are asleep), but fun.