Came across an article on the net for the '98 Viffer and the following extract caught my eye: 'One problem we found with the bike is that the stock lever position is a bit high so you'll want to rotate them down a bit. If you do this, watch out because if you move the brake lever down as far as possible it will push against the brake light wire causing the fuse to blow. This will take out your horn and brake light so be careful. If the lever is moved back up, just a little, the wire won't have pressure on it and the problem will be corrected. ' Of course I found it after I had played around with the lever postions for clutch and front brake, discovered I had blown a fuse and spent the next hour going through half a dozen fuses trying to work out what I had done wrong. :redface:
At least now yo know why. And youhave alerted others to the issue. Excellent find. Do you have a link to the article?