No. 8 Wire? Nah - a drill and a craft knife...

[slofox]

One of the problems with getting toys to go on the bike is mounting them somewhere where they can be used without interfering with unimportant things like steering, brakes, throttle controls etc - all those minor details...

So the TPX was easily mounted with some RAM bits on a stem mount. But with the advent of the Zumo as well, more space was needed.

After talking with Ivan at Ram Solutions (good guys to deal with) I ended up with a "triple mount". Which is a plastic plate of some width that goes on the stem mount and allows more than one accessory to be mounted thereon - one on each side in my case.

Apart from sorting fixings etc, I got it all together last night and tried it out on the bike.

Problem No 1. The TPX's power supply clips onto the side of the TPX mounting plate. There was no room since the mounting plate sits right down on the triple mount...

After a little thinking I figured I needed a hole through the triple mount. Luckily it is plastic and not hard to butcher...er I mean MODIFY...Drill some holes, hack the bits between out with a craft knife. Test and cut more until the power cable fits through.

Try fitting again. All goes on where it should. But.

Problem No 2. Because the triple mount is flat and the TPX needs to face horizontally forward, the Zumo is also flat and facing vertically upwards, making it hard - not to say impossible - to view. Bugger.

Back to the thinking cap. We need to tilt the mounting plate so the Zumo faces more towards the riding position. Prowled around the hardware store this morning and came up with some neoprene tap washers. Poke some behind the top mounting screws and only one behind the bottom mounting screw and a forward tilt is achieved...

Now I daresay things could be tidied up more than they are just now but hey, it works, dunnit...

Piccies attached.

[Gremlin]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

[JATZ]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

WTF !!!?
I think you need a goldwing my friend
is that a prs/cb type thing on there ?

[slofox]

WTF !!!?
I think you need a goldwing my friend
is that a prs/cb type thing on there ?

I think it's a George Foreman grill, innit?

[wysper]

So where are you going to mount your laptop Mr Fox?
Fark, that is alot of gizmos to go riding LOL

[Quasi]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

The little plastic box to carry your sammies in is a particularly useful device

[scumdog]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

There's a bike in there somewhere??

[Gremlin]

WTF !!!?
I think you need a goldwing my friend
is that a prs/cb type thing on there ?

Nah, a goldwing would be no good in the rougher stuff. It may surprise you, but when I look at bike specs, I look at what the alternator is capable of. And yes, behind the zumo mount is one of the few waterproof UHF CB Transceivers available.

The little plastic box to carry your sammies in is a particularly useful device

Nope, thats a pelican case for the radar detector. As is usual for me, the normal products, ie, pressed plastic covers I break. Thats a rubber mounted pelican case, on a ram mount, foam inside the case. Lasted well tho!

There's a bike in there somewhere??

Not much of her in that shot... but yes, you saw her when the red pajama one and I came visiting

[Mom]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

You should show us the clever mounting bracket you made for the kitchen sink you strap onto the rear mudguard too Gremlin

[Bren]

gizmo shmizmo is all i have to say.....you go out on your bike to get away from it, so why do you have to take it all with you?

[jack_hamma]

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

Holy heck thats a Jumbo 747 dash!! lol

[been_there]

Gremlin

Amateur

I've uh... sorta run out of space, and will still have to fit another heat controller on there somewhere

Looks like a new licence will be required to operate all that equipment

[slofox]

gizmo shmizmo is all i have to say.....you go out on your bike to get away from it, so why do you have to take it all with you?

A radar detector and a GPS, to my way of thinking anyway, just help me to "get away from it all". RD so I can get away quickly, without being "temporarily detained" for any reason and GPS so that I can actually get where I want to...without getting lost as I have done on certain occasions in the past...simple really...


besides, I LIKE toys...

[Gremlin]

I use the GPS to end up in places I would otherwise never find. I always know exactly where I am, just that on occasion its never where I intended to be.

Like slofox, I LIKE toys. But I guess it doesn't really show.

[slofox]

Like slofox, I LIKE toys. But I guess it doesn't really show.

Nah...it doesn't show at all...

I did once get really fuckin' lost down the middle of the south central Waikato...didn't have a clue where the hell I was for ages...backtracked, retraced, tried different roads...spent half an hour or more in the pissing rain trying to work out where I was...eventually had to retrace 20 odd km to find somewhere I recognised...turned out the sign I was looking for was lying in the long grass where some dweeblebrain had dropped it after breaking it off...