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There were many reasons for the change of the site software, the biggest was security. The age of the old software also meant no server updates for certain programs. There are many benefits to the new software, one of the biggest is the mobile functionality. Ill fix up some stuff in the coming days, we'll also try to get some of the old addons back or the data imported back into the site like the garage. To create a thread or to reply with a post is basically the same as it was in the prior software. The default style of the site is light colored, but i temporarily added a darker colored style, to change you can find a link at the bottom of the site.
ATTN: All Spyder RT owners...
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finless
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Ann, you can turn that off with a setting! Easiest way is to install the Sena APP on your phone.
Bob
robmorg
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Yep, due to Finless Bob's extraordinary generosity, there are apparently SEVERAL of us who already have Bob's very professional "home-made" cable installed. So I would say EXACTLY what "whiteyron" just said (except I would probably have said it without all those dancing red things - although I have my suspicions I really have no real idea what those things are supposed to be).
This sounds like one of those joint ventures where everybody wins... Dave, Bob, and everyone who buys one. :thumbup:
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sealfloorboards
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Congratulations, both of you. Love watching new Spyder Products coming up.
Ride in comfort,
John
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Ride in comfort,
John
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Tango
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Do you have to take the rear part of the bike apart to hook up the cable? :dontknow: Not my strong suit. nojoke Tom :spyder:
robmorg
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Tom,
Bob said, in post #2, that he will be posting a video soon. But to answer your question... No, you do not have to perform major surgery on the back end of the RT to install this cable. You will plug one end of the short cable into the "entertainment harness" connector on your radio, which is mounted under the small black panel below the right-side passenger hand grip. You route the other end of the cable into the trunk. I did this by removing the right rear speaker box which easily comes off by temporarily removing two or three screws from inside the trunk. I then ran the cable through a hole I drilled in the side of the trunk near the iPod connection point (behind where the speaker box attaches). I then finished the the hole off with a rubber grommet and mounted the SM10, with the mounting bracket that comes with it, as you see in the picture below. It's all fairly easy to do.
In the picture, you can also see the BRP iPod/MP3 player semi-rigid holder that is installed in my trunk. That contains a nano 4th generation iPod that is always connected to the entertainment system.
Tom,
Bob said, in post #2, that he will be posting a video soon. But to answer your question... No, you do not have to perform major surgery on the back end of the RT to install this cable. You will plug one end of the short cable into the "entertainment harness" connector on your radio, which is mounted under the small black panel below the right-side passenger hand grip. You route the other end of the cable into the trunk. I did this by removing the right rear speaker box which easily comes off by temporarily removing two or three screws from inside the trunk. I then ran the cable through a hole I drilled in the side of the trunk near the iPod connection point (behind where the speaker box attaches). I then finished the the hole off with a rubber grommet and mounted the SM10, with the mounting bracket that comes with it, as you see in the picture below. It's all fairly easy to do.
In the picture, you can also see the BRP iPod/MP3 player semi-rigid holder that is installed in my trunk. That contains a nano 4th generation iPod that is always connected to the entertainment system.
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finless
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robmorg, just to clarify as you have some thing not right.
The cable will plug into the radio's 2nd connector not the Entertainment harness. So this cable is for people that do not have BRP XM or CB (e.g. thus having the entertainment harness). If you have the entertainment harness then that is actually a different cable!
Installations:
You do have to remove one cover. It is the cover over the radio which is under the passenger backrest. Super simple to do and it's held on with 2 screws.
You can actually route the cable up the side of the passenger backrest for the simplest installation. Removing the passenger backrest will make it a tidier job but you can get by without doing that. Removing the backrest allows you to tuck the cable into a slot or seam in the plastic that is behind it. Again just for a tidier job if you really want that.
If you want to do it like you did, then backing off the speaker box does require you to at least loosen the side of the rear wrap panel. While the speaker box has 3 screws inside the trunk, there are 2 more that are just under the edge of the rear wrap panel. But you do not have to remove the rear panel! I will show this for people that want to do it that way.
Either way you go, which I will show each, it's pretty simple!
The only difficult part that some may have due to tools, is you do have to make a hole in the trunk to run the cable through. Having a drill makes this easy but the plastic is easy to cut so a dremmel, hot knife, etc can do it in a pinch.
Again I will be making instructions (printed) and a video.
Bob
The cable will plug into the radio's 2nd connector not the Entertainment harness. So this cable is for people that do not have BRP XM or CB (e.g. thus having the entertainment harness). If you have the entertainment harness then that is actually a different cable!
Installations:
You do have to remove one cover. It is the cover over the radio which is under the passenger backrest. Super simple to do and it's held on with 2 screws.
You can actually route the cable up the side of the passenger backrest for the simplest installation. Removing the passenger backrest will make it a tidier job but you can get by without doing that. Removing the backrest allows you to tuck the cable into a slot or seam in the plastic that is behind it. Again just for a tidier job if you really want that.
If you want to do it like you did, then backing off the speaker box does require you to at least loosen the side of the rear wrap panel. While the speaker box has 3 screws inside the trunk, there are 2 more that are just under the edge of the rear wrap panel. But you do not have to remove the rear panel! I will show this for people that want to do it that way.
Either way you go, which I will show each, it's pretty simple!
The only difficult part that some may have due to tools, is you do have to make a hole in the trunk to run the cable through. Having a drill makes this easy but the plastic is easy to cut so a dremmel, hot knife, etc can do it in a pinch.
Again I will be making instructions (printed) and a video.
Bob
robmorg
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Hmm, sorry about the confusion concerning the harness. I have always assumed that the cable for the XM or CB (that is not there at all if you have neither installed) WAS called the "Entertainment Harness", and that the other harness going up to the multi-function control was called something else. That's why I said that you plug this cable into the "Entertainment Harness" connector [on the radio].
At any rate, I can attest that the job of installing this cable was not at all difficult. Even I could do it.
finless
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I just completed the first 10 cable production run for Dave. They look and came out great!
This weekend I plan to write up the written instructions and shoot the install video.
If all goes well this weekend with the above, Dave should have product in hand late next week for people wanting this product.
Stay tuned.
Bob
This weekend I plan to write up the written instructions and shoot the install video.
If all goes well this weekend with the above, Dave should have product in hand late next week for people wanting this product.
Stay tuned.
Bob
hyea: :bowdown:
Motorcycledave
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I do not have the setup on the website yet but it will be soon
Bob is working on the cables and video we will let you all know
soon
Ride Safe
Dave
I do not have the setup on the website yet but it will be soon
Bob is working on the cables and video we will let you all know
soon
Ride Safe
Dave
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