Hitcher
13th August 2013, 17:27
Another job done!
After nearly 10 months I've finally got my trusty Garmin zumo 550 attached to the Z1000.
It's taken me a while to visualise how to do this -- and to find the right RAM Mount attachment. As it turns out, the "right" attachment was sitting in the back of a drawer. It must have come as part of some fitment kit or other I have acquired over the years, as I haven't used this one before and didn't even know I had one until a couple of days ago.
This gizmo has a hole in one end of the plate and a knob on the other. So under the LH mirror extender it has gone.
Compared with other bikes I've had the zumo on (an FJR1300, Shiver, GSX1250FA), the Z1000 is comparatively compact, with not a lot of bar space available, particularly once things like the rearview mirror and the urine sample bottle (on the RHS), and the Oxford heated grips controller and the rearview mirror (on the LHS) are taken into account. U-bolt shackles on the bars between the mirrors puts the zumo in a space where it overlaps the instrument panel.
Tonight, victory!
The thing I'll enjoy most will be the additional trip meters -- the Z1000 only has one. Keeping tabs on tyre life and service intervals will be much easier from henceforth.
And what a fiddly job. I almost went and hunted out my old artificial insemination technician's rubber glove, as a bit of gynecology was needed.
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After nearly 10 months I've finally got my trusty Garmin zumo 550 attached to the Z1000.
It's taken me a while to visualise how to do this -- and to find the right RAM Mount attachment. As it turns out, the "right" attachment was sitting in the back of a drawer. It must have come as part of some fitment kit or other I have acquired over the years, as I haven't used this one before and didn't even know I had one until a couple of days ago.
This gizmo has a hole in one end of the plate and a knob on the other. So under the LH mirror extender it has gone.
Compared with other bikes I've had the zumo on (an FJR1300, Shiver, GSX1250FA), the Z1000 is comparatively compact, with not a lot of bar space available, particularly once things like the rearview mirror and the urine sample bottle (on the RHS), and the Oxford heated grips controller and the rearview mirror (on the LHS) are taken into account. U-bolt shackles on the bars between the mirrors puts the zumo in a space where it overlaps the instrument panel.
Tonight, victory!
The thing I'll enjoy most will be the additional trip meters -- the Z1000 only has one. Keeping tabs on tyre life and service intervals will be much easier from henceforth.
And what a fiddly job. I almost went and hunted out my old artificial insemination technician's rubber glove, as a bit of gynecology was needed.
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