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Hi all, almost no hair left now after rebuilding my GT500. Now I know it was fitted with pointless ignition but this is really doing my brain serious damage. At every turn I've had dodgy electrics to deal with - the rest of the bike hasn't been an issue at all apart from the electrics!!! After pulling the very rusty bike apart - who lets a bike stand under a tarp for years....???? - and putting it back together I just can't get a spark. At this point I have to say I am a Muppet with electrics. It just means nothing and appears to be some kind of magic rather than some physical entity. After initially getting no spark I did manage to put a voltmeter across the coils and got nothing so I binned them I also ordered some new plugs and caps from Rex's Speedshop. Feeling this was sorted I tried for a spark - nada. At that point I decided as the rest of the electrics were rubbish and if not failed would pretty soon fail anyway I replaced the CDI unit, Reg / Rectifier with new. Guess what - yup - no spark. Yes I had turned on the key! OK in that case it must be the ignition coil so I replaced that too. No it wasn't. I spoke to a helpful chap at Electrex World who suggested it could be dodgy connection and to hard wire (solder) the connection which I did but - hence the reason for me writing - it didn't help. Could it be to do with the pickup that sits on top of the rotor...??? There's a red & white wire that leads back to the CDI box which to my mind should be the supply to the unit & the rest of the ignition...??? Should there be a current there when I manually turn the rotor? If there should be a current and there isn't because wither the pickup is faulty (is that possible...???) or because the wire's broken how on earth am I going to repair that as the wire is covered in clear goo which I assume is to protect it from earthing out...