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Aladinsaneuk · #1 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:40 am

some of you may remember that I recently placed the mount bracket for my garmin satnav on the dash under my screen - unfortunately, it is too flexible and bouces around too much

So, last night I got chatting with a friend and we decided to play with the old ram ball/handle bar mount

The headstock mount I had for the aprilia tank bag looked like it could be a suitable start for a new mount point....

I disassembled it and then started to think a little.... I also had a close look at the ram mount....

one short hacksaw job later, I had the ball and short bar in my hand

I tapped the aluminium of the shaft with a 4.8 drill and a size six tap

I used a quite long size six bolt and the original parts of the aprilia mount and reversed them - the nut end of the bolt coming up through the expanding plastic shroud

so, here we go:

this will give me my garmin mount point and still allow use of the tankbag

(Yes I know I could have bought one, but where is the fun in that!)

Cross posted to other falco forums for others to consider it as an idea - and apologies for the crap photo - it was late, I was drunk and it was my camera phone.....

Samray · #2 Post by **Samray** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:45 am

True fettling.

Syltiz · #3 Post by **Syltiz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:51 pm

I did that too... but yours looks way better done. I still think D-Rider has the best setup for this... bracket between mirror mounts that places satnav in the bubble of the screen so you dont have to drop your eyes too far from the road.

I thought I had copied the "D-Rider Bracket"until I tried to turn the handlebars and found my reservoirs fouled it!

Back to the drawing board then.

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:20 pm

Cheers Syltiz ... much appreciate the ego boost!

I'd like to say that I'd been very careful in my design to miss the fluid reservoirs but it was probably more down to luck.

My latest improvement is to connect to my Garmin one of those FM transmitters that you can get for listening to MP3 players on your car radio. I can listen to this using a tiny Sony FM radio that I've got (using the Philips in-ear noise-cancelling headphones I bought from Argos!).
This is good as I no longer have a wire connecting me to the bike.

Aladinsaneuk · #5 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:28 pm

nod, that is the better solution and is what i tried first off - but the dash was far too springy....

I think it could be more rigid with some under dash bracketry, possibly off the fairing frame. (that may be too rigid though!)

as for wires, i know what you mean andy, but i like my wired starcom :)

joecrx · #6 Post by **joecrx** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:18 pm

D-Rider wrote:Cheers Syltiz ... much appreciate the ego boost!

I'd like to say that I'd been very careful in my design to miss the fluid reservoirs but it was probably more down to luck.

My latest improvement is to connect to my Garmin one of those FM transmitters that you can get for listening to MP3 players on your car radio. I can listen to this using a tiny Sony FM radio that I've got (using the Philips in-ear noise-cancelling headphones I bought from Argos!).
This is good as I no longer have a wire connecting me to the bike.

i was thinking down those lines with the radio in my phone , i could also answer any calls

Syltiz · #7 Post by **Syltiz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:31 pm

joecrx, you got any bigger pictures of your machine? The pic in your avatar looks like a well-colour-coded belly pan

back_marker · #8 Post by **back_marker** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:12 pm

D-Rider wrote:My latest improvement is to connect to my Garmin one of those FM transmitters that you can get for listening to MP3 players on your car radio. I can listen to this using a tiny Sony FM radio that I've got (using the Philips in-ear noise-cancelling headphones I bought from Argos!).
This is good as I no longer have a wire connecting me to the bike.

Sorry, I am I missing the point here but I listen to my MP3 player whilst riding and the only wire goes down my jacket to the player in my pocket (which is about the same size as two cheap lighters stuck together), so I don't quite understand why you need to install an FM transmitter to use an FM radio to listen to an MP3 player that's pretty damn tiny anyway?

Apart from that though, how effective are those noise cancelling headphones anyway? I keep looking at them and I think they would probably be better than just whacking the volume up full like I do at the moment (becomes a little dangerous when you are filtering through traffic on the motorway and your lid is full of AC/DC or even better The Ace of Spades by Motorhead, you can almost feel the horns growing out of the top of your helmet

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:39 pm

back_marker wrote:
Sorry, I am I missing the point here but I listen to my MP3 player whilst riding and the only wire goes down my jacket to the player in my pocket (which is about the same size as two cheap lighters stuck together), so I don't quite understand why you need to install an FM transmitter to use an FM radio to listen to an MP3 player that's pretty damn tiny anyway?

Apart from that though, how effective are those noise cancelling headphones anyway? I keep looking at them and I think they would probably be better than just whacking the volume up full like I do at the moment (becomes a little dangerous when you are filtering through traffic on the motorway and your lid is full of AC/DC or even better The Ace of Spades by Motorhead, you can almost feel the horns growing out of the top of your helmet

Yeah - think you did miss the point a bit ..... I'm using the FM transmitter to listen to my Garmin Navigation which is not much use stuffed down my jacket as I like to be able to look at the screen. It does play MP3s - which is nice - but I also get the voice guidance.

falcomunky · #10 Post by **falcomunky** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:14 pm

That so you can genuinely claim the voices 'made you do it' when the time comes?

back_marker · #11 Post by **back_marker** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:37 pm

D-Rider wrote: Yeah - think you did miss the point a bit ..... I'm using the FM transmitter to listen to my Garmin Navigation which is not much use stuffed down my jacket as I like to be able to look at the screen. It does play MP3s - which is nice - but I also get the voice guidance.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh I see. My mistake. Tbh I know very little about sat nav systems as I flatly refuse to buy one. This is due partly to the fact that the whole world has gone satnav crazy with many people unable to actually think about where they are going, choosing to blindly follow said magic box of tricks, even if it takes them to an obviously dodgy looking bit of road; and partly because I am just too damned tight to buy one, choosing instead to buy essentials like Kentucky Fried Chicken and bike bits (oh, and beer).

I also hate said electronic articles due to the fact that idiots in cars subconciously decide that having A-pillars you can loose cars let alone bikes in, aren't enough and they should block the middle of their windscreens as well (not to mention playing with them whilst driving instead of looking at the road.

Sorry, ranting again.

D-Rider · #12 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:24 pm

Yeah .... but as I've been developing the things for more than 12 years I'm quite pleased that people are using them (although I hate that bloody term "sat nav" that the media introduced).

.... and I'd far sooner have a motorist referring to one of them than trying to read a map or AtoZ while driving - which is what they use to do.

We used to inhibit just about all control when driving but other manufacturers started to allow users to do what they liked and our customers (car manufacturers) forced us to remove a lot of the restrictions. Tried to resist but you know how it is. The result of all this will probably be more legislation which would have been unnecessary had other manufacturers adopted the same philosophy we did.

Syltiz · #13 Post by **Syltiz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:31 pm

D-Rider wrote:.... (although I hate that bloody term "sat nav" that the media introduced)...

and I hate the term "Twat Nav" that someone introduced cos my friends just dont know when the joke has worn thin!

back_marker · #14 Post by **back_marker** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:51 pm

Syltiz wrote:
D-Rider wrote:.... (although I hate that bloody term "sat nav" that the media introduced)...
and I hate the term "Twat Nav" that someone introduced cos my friends just dont know when the joke has worn thin!

Twat nav? is that to help you find the Clitoris?

Sorry. I'll get me coat.

graham0071 · #15 Post by **graham0071** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:02 am

I argue all the time with doris{my Sat Nav'), She has led me in places I would never have ventured, like a road that had been turned into a blokes lawn!!! who was mawing it as I drove accross it!!!
My wife used to navigate with road map at times, now she thinks I've got a bit on the side with Doris!!!