My turn to buy. I'll have a beer, have whatever you likes.
Got around to installing the new TomTom Rider 550 GPS I bought. Looked
into using the HD part for the zumo GPS mount that goes in the upper
outside corner of the fairing. I would have liked to use this option,
and the bolt pattern was the standard AMPS design, unfortunately the
garmin gets screwed in from the outside and the tomtom screws from the
inside and I wasn't sure for one I would be able to reach the holes
properly, and tomtom was round while the zumo was rectangular. blah,
blah, just decided it wasn't worth trying to make it work. So I went
with the Ram mounts that came with the rider 550, but chose not to use
the ubolt base, and instead bought the Ram Torque base for appearance
and a much better stabilized base.
<https://rammount.com/collections/motorcycle-bases/products/ram-b-408-75-1u>
I'll put some picks up next door when it is all back together. It's not perfect, but I'm sure once I start being able to use it, I'll get used
to it. I put it on the left handlebars.
So I got the outer fairing off to install the wiring. That part will be super easy as the headlight has the extra wiring available for something
in European models and is unused on my American bike. But, I checked
for the dreaded fairing support brackets that get cracked. I'll be
damned, but both of mine were cracked exactly as I had heard about,
along with both of the speaker support brackets. The good news is I searched around and there is a Harley guy in Michigan who is a machinist
by trade and had this problem on his bike. He came up with some
machined parts for replacing with everything together and it can be done
in about a half hour. Stainless parts and he includes all the hardware
and even a drill bit for about $48. He's sold thousands of these. If
you have a pre 2010 bagger and your mirror is getting a bit shaky and
hard to see out of, this might be your problem, too. The factory part
is total shit.
In the meantime, I'll get the proper electrical clips for the hookup,
wait for the support hardware fix to come in, and have another beer!
sticks
On 3/1/2023 8:14 PM, sticks wrote:
My turn to buy. I'll have a beer, have whatever you likes.
Got around to installing the new TomTom Rider 550 GPS I bought.
Looked into using the HD part for the zumo GPS mount that goes in the
upper outside corner of the fairing. I would have liked to use this
option, and the bolt pattern was the standard AMPS design,
unfortunately the garmin gets screwed in from the outside and the
tomtom screws from the inside and I wasn't sure for one I would be
able to reach the holes properly, and tomtom was round while the zumo
was rectangular. blah, blah, just decided it wasn't worth trying to
make it work. So I went with the Ram mounts that came with the rider
550, but chose not to use the ubolt base, and instead bought the Ram
Torque base for appearance and a much better stabilized base.
<https://rammount.com/collections/motorcycle-bases/products/ram-b-408-75-1u> >>
I'll put some picks up next door when it is all back together. It's
not perfect, but I'm sure once I start being able to use it, I'll get
used to it. I put it on the left handlebars.
So I got the outer fairing off to install the wiring. That part will
be super easy as the headlight has the extra wiring available for
something in European models and is unused on my American bike. But,
I checked for the dreaded fairing support brackets that get cracked.
I'll be damned, but both of mine were cracked exactly as I had heard
about, along with both of the speaker support brackets. The good news
is I searched around and there is a Harley guy in Michigan who is a
machinist by trade and had this problem on his bike. He came up with
some machined parts for replacing with everything together and it can
be done in about a half hour. Stainless parts and he includes all the
hardware and even a drill bit for about $48. He's sold thousands of
these. If you have a pre 2010 bagger and your mirror is getting a bit
shaky and hard to see out of, this might be your problem, too. The
factory part is total shit.
In the meantime, I'll get the proper electrical clips for the hookup,
wait for the support hardware fix to come in, and have another beer!
sticks
Well, I guess I spoke too soon on the kit for repair. The secure money transaction yesterday seemed a little funky to me so I emailed the guy
to see if it all was good. He responded that he didn't do it anymore because someone stole his design and undercut him, couldn't seem to find
his web guy to remove his page, and promised to refund my money this
evening.
Seemed like a decent guy, hopefully he's honest.
...looking for parts again.
On 3/2/2023 3:24 PM, sticks wrote:
On 3/1/2023 8:14 PM, sticks wrote:
My turn to buy. I'll have a beer, have whatever you likes.
Got around to installing the new TomTom Rider 550 GPS I bought.
Looked into using the HD part for the zumo GPS mount that goes in the
upper outside corner of the fairing. I would have liked to use this
option, and the bolt pattern was the standard AMPS design,
unfortunately the garmin gets screwed in from the outside and the
tomtom screws from the inside and I wasn't sure for one I would be
able to reach the holes properly, and tomtom was round while the zumo
was rectangular. blah, blah, just decided it wasn't worth trying to
make it work. So I went with the Ram mounts that came with the rider
550, but chose not to use the ubolt base, and instead bought the Ram
Torque base for appearance and a much better stabilized base.
<https://rammount.com/collections/motorcycle-bases/products/ram-b-408-75-1u>
I'll put some picks up next door when it is all back together. It's
not perfect, but I'm sure once I start being able to use it, I'll get
used to it. I put it on the left handlebars.
So I got the outer fairing off to install the wiring. That part will
be super easy as the headlight has the extra wiring available for
something in European models and is unused on my American bike. But,
I checked for the dreaded fairing support brackets that get cracked.
I'll be damned, but both of mine were cracked exactly as I had heard
about, along with both of the speaker support brackets. The good
news is I searched around and there is a Harley guy in Michigan who
is a machinist by trade and had this problem on his bike. He came up
with some machined parts for replacing with everything together and
it can be done in about a half hour. Stainless parts and he includes
all the hardware and even a drill bit for about $48. He's sold
thousands of these. If you have a pre 2010 bagger and your mirror is
getting a bit shaky and hard to see out of, this might be your
problem, too. The factory part is total shit.
In the meantime, I'll get the proper electrical clips for the hookup,
wait for the support hardware fix to come in, and have another beer!
sticks
Well, I guess I spoke too soon on the kit for repair. The secure
money transaction yesterday seemed a little funky to me so I emailed
the guy to see if it all was good. He responded that he didn't do it
anymore because someone stole his design and undercut him, couldn't
seem to find his web guy to remove his page, and promised to refund my
money this evening.
Seemed like a decent guy, hopefully he's honest.
...looking for parts again.
This may be more cosmetic than you want to tackle but if you are in a
nearby state either of you might need an excuse to take a ride.
I've debated making specialty MC parts myself a few times, but generally
I avoid it, because they have to be so cosmetically beyond perfect. Its
not worth it for me unless I can mass produce. Most people won't pay it
for one part.
I've made bar risers, camera mounts, and other stuff a few times, but
only for myself.
On 3/4/2023 10:35 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 3/2/2023 3:24 PM, sticks wrote:
On 3/1/2023 8:14 PM, sticks wrote:
My turn to buy. I'll have a beer, have whatever you likes.
Got around to installing the new TomTom Rider 550 GPS I bought.
Looked into using the HD part for the zumo GPS mount that goes in
the upper outside corner of the fairing. I would have liked to use
this option, and the bolt pattern was the standard AMPS design,
unfortunately the garmin gets screwed in from the outside and the
tomtom screws from the inside and I wasn't sure for one I would be
able to reach the holes properly, and tomtom was round while the
zumo was rectangular. blah, blah, just decided it wasn't worth
trying to make it work. So I went with the Ram mounts that came
with the rider 550, but chose not to use the ubolt base, and instead
bought the Ram Torque base for appearance and a much better
stabilized base.
<https://rammount.com/collections/motorcycle-bases/products/ram-b-408-75-1u>
I'll put some picks up next door when it is all back together. It's
not perfect, but I'm sure once I start being able to use it, I'll
get used to it. I put it on the left handlebars.
So I got the outer fairing off to install the wiring. That part
will be super easy as the headlight has the extra wiring available
for something in European models and is unused on my American bike.
But, I checked for the dreaded fairing support brackets that get
cracked. I'll be damned, but both of mine were cracked exactly as I
had heard about, along with both of the speaker support brackets.
The good news is I searched around and there is a Harley guy in
Michigan who is a machinist by trade and had this problem on his
bike. He came up with some machined parts for replacing with
everything together and it can be done in about a half hour.
Stainless parts and he includes all the hardware and even a drill
bit for about $48. He's sold thousands of these. If you have a pre >>>> 2010 bagger and your mirror is getting a bit shaky and hard to see
out of, this might be your problem, too. The factory part is total
shit.
In the meantime, I'll get the proper electrical clips for the
hookup, wait for the support hardware fix to come in, and have
another beer!
sticks
Well, I guess I spoke too soon on the kit for repair. The secure
money transaction yesterday seemed a little funky to me so I emailed
the guy to see if it all was good. He responded that he didn't do it
anymore because someone stole his design and undercut him, couldn't
seem to find his web guy to remove his page, and promised to refund
my money this evening.
Seemed like a decent guy, hopefully he's honest.
...looking for parts again.
This may be more cosmetic than you want to tackle but if you are in a
nearby state either of you might need an excuse to take a ride.
I've debated making specialty MC parts myself a few times, but
generally I avoid it, because they have to be so cosmetically beyond
perfect. Its not worth it for me unless I can mass produce. Most
people won't pay it for one part.
I've made bar risers, camera mounts, and other stuff a few times, but
only for myself.
I quickly found the competitors on ebay he was talking about. Hated to
give the business to a probably chinese company, but these were only
$15. They look exactly like the ones the guy that figured it out had.
This is the guy I think started this. He is out of this now, but can't
seem to get the webpage down.
<https://www.nwmachine.com/rfw/>
This is one of the people selling them now. Look the same.
<https://www.ebay.com/itm/234089878480>
The fix for the fairing bracket would have been pretty simple. The
speaker support brackets a little more complicated. But for $15 screw
it. I just ordered them.
My son is a talented machinist, and has a shop aside from his full time job. He is in the process of getting a 3 axis machine for doing his own work. Currently he uses the machines at work, they don't seem to mind.
I just hating asking him to do much of anything. He's young, got a
life, and I want to support him. Not the other way around. When I need things, if I can't do it myself, I'd rather just pay someone to do it.
Plus, he races Street Stock division and I'd rather he worked on his
car. Gotta get on the podium more.
Anyway, got the GPS all finished. That accessory wire on the headlamp
lead was perfect. It has power on accessory too, so turn key on the GPS fires up. Turn it off it goes to sleep.
Bracket part should be here Monday and can get it all back together shortly. After poking around inside the fairing a bit, it is amazing
shit doesn't fail more often in there. The radio system for one. It
must all be designed just right to keep water out, even though it
doesn't look like it would be in bad weather. But I've ridden in some
heavy rains and it all seems to keep working. Knock of f'ing wood.
Grab a drink. I saved a few bucks on the parts.
sticks
On 3/2/2023 3:24 PM, sticks wrote:
On 3/1/2023 8:14 PM, sticks wrote:
My turn to buy. I'll have a beer, have whatever you likes.
Got around to installing the new TomTom Rider 550 GPS I bought.
Looked into using the HD part for the zumo GPS mount that goes in the
upper outside corner of the fairing. I would have liked to use this
option, and the bolt pattern was the standard AMPS design,
unfortunately the garmin gets screwed in from the outside and the
tomtom screws from the inside and I wasn't sure for one I would be
able to reach the holes properly, and tomtom was round while the zumo
was rectangular. blah, blah, just decided it wasn't worth trying to
make it work. So I went with the Ram mounts that came with the rider
550, but chose not to use the ubolt base, and instead bought the Ram
Torque base for appearance and a much better stabilized base.
<https://rammount.com/collections/motorcycle-bases/products/ram-b-408-75-1u>
I'll put some picks up next door when it is all back together. It's
not perfect, but I'm sure once I start being able to use it, I'll get
used to it. I put it on the left handlebars.
So I got the outer fairing off to install the wiring. That part will
be super easy as the headlight has the extra wiring available for
something in European models and is unused on my American bike. But,
I checked for the dreaded fairing support brackets that get cracked.
I'll be damned, but both of mine were cracked exactly as I had heard
about, along with both of the speaker support brackets. The good
news is I searched around and there is a Harley guy in Michigan who
is a machinist by trade and had this problem on his bike. He came up
with some machined parts for replacing with everything together and
it can be done in about a half hour. Stainless parts and he includes
all the hardware and even a drill bit for about $48. He's sold
thousands of these. If you have a pre 2010 bagger and your mirror is
getting a bit shaky and hard to see out of, this might be your
problem, too. The factory part is total shit.
In the meantime, I'll get the proper electrical clips for the hookup,
wait for the support hardware fix to come in, and have another beer!
sticks
Well, I guess I spoke too soon on the kit for repair. The secure
money transaction yesterday seemed a little funky to me so I emailed
the guy to see if it all was good. He responded that he didn't do it
anymore because someone stole his design and undercut him, couldn't
seem to find his web guy to remove his page, and promised to refund my
money this evening.
Seemed like a decent guy, hopefully he's honest.
...looking for parts again.
This may be more cosmetic than you want to tackle but if you are in a
nearby state either of you might need an excuse to take a ride.
I've debated making specialty MC parts myself a few times, but generally
I avoid it, because they have to be so cosmetically beyond perfect. Its
not worth it for me unless I can mass produce. Most people won't pay it
for one part.
I've made bar risers, camera mounts, and other stuff a few times, but
only for myself.
This may be more cosmetic than you want to tackle but if you are in a
nearby state either of you might need an excuse to take a ride.
I've debated making specialty MC parts myself a few times, but
generally I avoid it, because they have to be so cosmetically beyond
perfect. Its not worth it for me unless I can mass produce. Most
people won't pay it for one part.
I've made bar risers, camera mounts, and other stuff a few times, but
only for myself.
I couldn't beat that Ragan guy's price . I could repair ans reinforce them for a few bucks ...
On 3/4/2023 12:19 PM, Snag wrote:
This may be more cosmetic than you want to tackle but if you are in a
nearby state either of you might need an excuse to take a ride.
I've debated making specialty MC parts myself a few times, but
generally I avoid it, because they have to be so cosmetically beyond
perfect. Its not worth it for me unless I can mass produce. Most
people won't pay it for one part.
I've made bar risers, camera mounts, and other stuff a few times, but
only for myself.
I couldn't beat that Ragan guy's price . I could repair ans
reinforce them for a few bucks ...
When I saw his original video, I thought it was a decent price where a
guy solved a problem by making a part that was gonna have a big demand
and he could make a few bucks in the process. I like supporting that
kind of person. I can see how he just gave up when someone steals your design and makes the four different parts, includes the nuts and bolts,
and even a drill bit for $15. I guess that's how the world works. I
think they're users, but I guess I'm part of the problem because I
bought the part.
Metal work, especially fabrication, is something I'm pretty much a
butcher at. It better be hidden if it is something I'm gonna do. I got
a major respect for the son, and his talents. I'm working on a pig
roaster we've had in the family for about 60 years. It had an old
carbon steel spit that I figured I should upgrade. All stainless 404 is what I went with. I had no idea what I was getting into. The main rod
is 7/8" hex across the flats. 4 3/8" rods that can also be used. 8
1/2" points for the front and back mounted on flat plates with boxed
locking works for everything. Got it all cut and bent. I got all the points done with a grinder, struggled through getting the holes drilled
(1/4" rods for birds on the main spit, 9 of them) eventually having to
use the kids drill press. Though I can weld, when it came to doing it,
I paid someone. Way too much time and money getting everything ready
for me to butcher it all up. The whole process gave me a new respect
for people who can make things in metal! Working with stainless was way outta my league.
I mounted it on a Military Humvee Schutt M116A2 trailer in honor of my
dad (Korean War Vet) set up so I can take it around and lend it to
friends if they want. Can't wait for the weather to break so I can test
it out.
Damn, that was long winded. I better get another round.
sticks
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