Definitely a FEW hours to complete. My GB500 needed a whole lot less than that when I sold it. But age gets in the way now and then. Mine not the bikes! Nowadays I'm much more interesting in riding than wrenching!
Bare
I still enjoy both; always have. I've got to know the details & the bits & pieces of everything. It seems to be incurable in me. Look what I've done to the AVL since January 2011. I could have just left it alone
I've already this morning spent even more hours researching & straightening out in my head (finally) this whole TCI Unit thing from when the first one was put on an AVL to the last one; first without, then with, and then again without the second & third connector & the little black spark delay box. That has driven me nuts since the beginning of this RE saga in Jan '11.