Cinnamon Girls low beam went out. 2500 miles later I back probed the bucket connectors and the handlebar switch. Everything checked out a okay. Took a gander at the low beam and guess what? it was working! So what was it? Must have been a loose wire in one of the connectors. Or corrosion that I unknowingly flaked off. Slathered all connectors in dielectric grease and Cinnamon Girl still has her low beam. And I have a new H4 spare head light bulb. A bulb that I bought at Wally World in Spruce Pine NC one brisk morning back in September 2007.
Moral to this tale? Carry one of them thar lectric meters when traveling, and a basic wiring diagram so snekeptp can help you when you are 300 miles deep in Yankee Land.
