Without the red it wouldn't get past pretty much idle. Be like a PW50 Peewee yamy where you start it on the safety switch then flick it to go fast mode. Go & enjoy your ride.

lol - clearly I'm not the brightest crayon in the box re hi-lo rpm speed - of course it wouldn't' be mph

appreciate the clarification how the lo / hi coils act - right now it idles and revs, so I'm going to take RT325's advice, and just ride the thing

when I get to trying to set it up for the street, I'll sort out a proper CDI and clean up the harness.

thank you again!

That's all good. Mark is more onto things like that than me but i only know what i know more from mistakes haha but would be nice to know what changes sometime if you feel like pulling that wire then start it. In the mean time-- enjoy ya ride. Ps the way it's set up could be a good trick for anyone in a similar situation that might be short of cash or can't find the new coil on eBay.