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GPS Installed, differently
I took the GPS off my old bike before I traded it in so I needed a way to mount it. The BRP mount is nice, but way more than I wanted to spend. I've seen a couple other top clamp mount plates, but they all seem to use Ram mounts which are great if you need the adjustability but seem too much if you don't. So I grabbed some calipers, a couple bits of scrap aluminum, the lathe, the mill, and the welder and made my own. It would have been much simpler to make from steel but I need the practice with aluminum and I could always redo it later. Also I haven't wired it yet because I'm waiting till I decide which heated grips I'm installing so I can do both at the same time.
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Bracket with wrinkle finish paint
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Bracket bottom
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Bracket installed
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Mount on GPS
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Mount installed
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View from the driver's seat
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Nice. I like to see DIY'ers, especially of this caliber.
h0gr1der
2018 RT Limited Blue/Chrome SE6 *Tri-Axis Bars*Adjustable Driver Backrest*175/55R15 Vredestein Front, 205/60R15 Vredestein Rear Tires*Baja Ron Front Spring Pre-Load Adjusters*Misty Mountain Sheepskin seat cover*Centramatic balancers *Garmin Zumo 595LM GPS*KOTT Grills*BajaRon swaybar*SpyderPops Alignment*Missing Belt guard*Magnetic Mirrors*Custom Rear Adjustable Shock*360° LED Headlights & Foglights*Progressive front fender turn signals
States Visited on Less than 4 wheels.
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2018 F3 LIMITED
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2022 RT Sea To Sky
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Raprider (Rich)
2016 Can-Am Spyder ST-S SE5 Steel Black Metallic ( Blackbird)
BRP Audio, Heated Grips, Fog Lights, Passenger Backrest, Givi Saddlebags/Top Case
BajaRon Swaybar, TricLed Wide-Vu Mirrors, Lamonster Ram mount and X-grip, Sena 20S Evo Dual
TricLed Sequential Front SpyderFenderz, Dual Color Run/Brake/Turn LEDs, Brake Flasher
Kumho Ecsta AST installed on rear 4/2021
1996 Yamaha Virago 750 (Vera) - still riding
1987 Honda Shadow 500 (Shady) - sold
1982 Honda Rebel 250 (Little Reb) - sold
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Great job. Interesting project.
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2021 Sea To Sky, 2020 RTL
Isn't it weird that in AMERICA our flag and our culture offend so many people......
but our benefits don't?
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Looks factory! well made! Double thumbs up!
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Way cool, looks sweet and the location is clean / uncluttered.
Seeing the install on your Spyder, if mine I would somehow black out the fasteners to make them disappear.
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Originally Posted by PMK
Way cool, looks sweet and the location is clean / uncluttered.
Seeing the install on your Spyder, if mine I would somehow black out the fasteners to make them disappear.
Just paint them black with Duplicolor truck bed liner. Matches the textured OEM PC. Touch ups are invisible. Just spray into the cap and daub on with a little brush.
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Looks great! Factory! What model Garmin??
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Thanks! That's a Zumo 396. Took it out for a ride the other day with my wife (her on her Ryker) and the GPS was in the perfect spot.
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Originally Posted by whodat
Thanks! That's a Zumo 396. Took it out for a ride the other day with my wife (her on her Ryker) and the GPS was in the perfect spot.
Looks like a nice unit! Please let me know if the "curves ahead" and other warnings works well and if you can turn it off. I had a Garmin 56 that included those warnings and the first time I took it out in the mountains on my Cleo Chapman Highway route (made it in Base Camp) it would sound all the time to the point it locked up the upper bar where it once had told me what turn was coming up! Really bad. My 57 doesn't but still bugs me with school zones whether or not they even exist or not. Injoy!
You can see my Ohio and some South Carolina routes with downloadable gpx and kml files for garmins and map illustrations like shown.
to see MY maps PAGE
cleo.jpg
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That is a great job, and next level DIY project. Metal is the last medium I have to learn how to work with and fabricate.
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