Ignition switch circuit on bikes

[His Dudeness]

On the 2002/3 Foxeye FZS600, and presumably on the 1,000, the headlights are indeed controlled by a couple of relays. When I fitted a Foxeye fairing and lights with twin main beam and twin dip to a 1998 FZS600 I had to do a bit of head scratching because the earlier wiring harness didn't lend itself to taking the set-up and relays from the 2002/3 model.
Instead i came up with the layout shown in the (poor quality) picture here which uses a couple of bog standard relays. As anyone with a Boxeye knows those lights are very poor so now ten times better.
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Excellent drawing limax Very clear and has all the info needed. Taking the the power for headlight away from the ignition switch circuit and giving the headlight it's own circuit seems like a good idea since the headlight is probably the biggest load on the fuse box. The foxeye has relays for the headlight but it looks like the relay gets it's switched power from the fuse box so the full current still goes through the ignition switch so that's not any better than the way the boxeye does it if you're looking at it from the point of view of the load through the ignition switch. The way limax has drawn it the current for the headlights would be coming straight from the battery so his way seems better to me.

The way I was thinking to do it was you have a relay beside the fuse box. When the ignition key is switched on it switches on the control side of a relay and powers the whole fuse box. The switched power would come from the battery positive through the relay and then to the fusebox so the load is taken off the ignition switch. The battery is right beside the fuse box so the power wire would only need to be a few inches long so less voltage drop and the full current doesn't need to go through the ignition switch and the wiring to the ignition switch so less voltage drop there too. Seems like a better way to do it to me. The only reason I can think of why they don't do it that way is maybe it would make the bike easier to steal? If you bypassed the relay you would put power to the fusebox and turn everything on without the key but the bike still wouldn't start since the switched ground to the ignitor would still be open in the ignition switch so you would still have to turn the key to make the bike start.