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  1. craigsinclair

    dream bikes

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    guzzi

    From the album: dream bikes

    Seen on the way to work.
  3. From the album: dream bikes

    Rosso in northern Canada
  4. Thanks. You'll have to upload the images to your gallery before posting to the forum and then as you compose your post you click on the "My Media" icon in the forum post editor tool bar. You'll be given 4 options in the pop up, one of which is "Gallery Images" Click on that, it will bring up all your photos and then click on the photo you want and then "Finished" and it will embed a script into your message that places the image mid message. Like this: Easy.
  5. I've snagged a bunch of info from this forum so I thought it only fair to post some. I hardwired and mounted a Garmin Zumo 660LM on my 2001 Rosso Mandello. It was pretty straightforward, except I made my own mounting bracket. It went as follows: My bike has the holes in the top fork crown for riser bars even though the bike came with and currently has clip ons on it. I've seen these riser bar mounts on other V11s but not all V11s. Anyway, I always thought the bolts were kind of ugly but figured it would be a good place to mount a GPS. So I fabricated a metal bracket that is held in place by the bolts that were in the holes in the fork crown. It was pretty simple, a small bent base plate that clears the top of the steerer and a plate welded on at 90 degrees for the GPS mount to mount to. Like so: It's pretty basic, but it looks a lot better with paint. Finished product. The GPS base mounted onto my bracket with the hardware Garmin supplied to mount it to the RAM kit. Next to mount the unit onto the fork crown. I had to lower the clip ons on the fork legs a bit to get a wrench on the nut on the bottom side of the mounting bolts which was easy enough. The homemade mount bolted on nicely and I moved the clip-ons back up and tightened them into place. I didn't like where the RAM would have put the GPS, it would have always been sticking up in the air or blocking something. On the crown it's centered, solidly mounted, and out of the way. I'm happy with how minimal the mount is, and how quickly the wire disappears under the dash. And the Garmin "blank" that covers up the dock is a nice touch. So, mounted, now to give it some power. Ideally the power would be "switched" so you wouldn't have to worry about draining the battery when not running. The headlight is a good power source that can handle a small drain on the circuit to power a GPS. The first step is to remove the headlight which is easily done by removing the two bolts on the sides of the light housing at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock. That's it, two bolts, and you'll have the headlight hanging from its wiring harness. Disconnect the wiring harness, it will be easier to work on this on your work bench or kitchen table or lap. This picture is of the 4 wire harness disconnected. The light housing side of the connection is zip tied to the bike so you'll have to give that a snip to get it off. My desire was to connect in the GPS power without making it permanent. I'm not planning on selling the bike any time soon, or the GPS, but it felt right to be able to remove the wiring unit without have to cut anything or make any repairs after. So I found these weather resistant spade connectors that I was going to splice into the power and ground wires. I decided to splice them into the headlight housing unit side of the wiring figuring it would be a lot easier to replace that short piece should I screw something up. The headlight power wire is the green and grey one, and the black wire is the ground. You can see both here: I cut the wire, stripped off a small piece from either side of the cut, put both ends into the spade bit, and crimped the whole thing together. The bike would work like this as if nothing had happened. Garmin gives you enough wire to run the power connection pretty much anywhere on the bike. I thought about trimming back the Garmin wire so it was a cleaner install but there's always a chance that I would sell the GPS or move it to a different bike. Also, Garmin mounts the fuse at the tail end of the wire and all the headphone/mic/usb connections are bundled and only split out at the end so cutting it back much would mean a lot of reconnecting fittings. So a couple of zip ties and it was all bundled up and tucked in under the instruments. I wasn't interested in the USB, headphones, and microphone options on the Zumo 660LM so I taped over the ends of the connectors to prevent corrosion and tucked them up under the dash as well. I attached the other side of the spade connectors to the GPS mount wires and plugged them into the new ones spliced into the head lamp harness, and reconnected the harness as well. Reinstalled the headlight and gave it a quick test. Turned the ignition on and it asked me if I wanted to go into "motorcycle mode" which means the mount was getting power. Good sign. And when I turned the ignition off it sensed the power loss. Everything worked perfectly. If I were to do it again: I would make the connection even cleaner without cutting any wires making removal such that you would never know it was installed. I'd do this by connecting inside the headlight housing. If you take the headlight out you'll find this connector which I've opened to show the inside of it. Each lead comes out of the plastic housing. I'd connect directly to the power tabs inside the housing. There is a fuse "in line" at the end of the Garmin power harness. This makes it too big to feed into the headlight housing (the opening in the housing is just big enough to feed the wires through but not the fuse housing) so you'd have to extend the wiring past the fuse for it to reach the headlight connector. I'd suggest doing this by soldering onto the headlight connector tabs (remove the wires from the plastic connector so as to not melt the connector), running the wire out of the housing, and attaching a spade connector to the end of the extension. Then I'd put spade connectors on the wiring harness ends and connect them outside the housing. This way you can still easily completely remove the headlight housing from the bike. Otherwise the wire would be permanently fixed to the headlight at one end and the GPS mount at the other end. Also, you don't have to dismantle the headlight housing to get to the GPS fuse which is outside of the headlight housing in this configuration. I think that's it.
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    GPS installation

    Photos of my installation of a Garmin Zumo GPS
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    gpsx

    From the album: GPS installation

    This is the connector that plugs into the light. If I was feeling more ambitious I would have spliced a piece of wire onto the end of the GPS power leads. The stock leads have a fuse in line at the end of the power wire. The hole in the headlight housing isn't big enough to fish the fuse through. I should have cut off the fuse, run the wire through the headlight housing, and reconnected it inside the housing. Then you can connect directly to the ends of the Green and Grey wire, and the Black ground wire, no cutting.
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    gps13

    From the album: GPS installation

    Test run. When the bike was running the GPS was charging. Turned the key off and the "lost power" dialogue box showed up. Everything works. Power when running, none when off, no drained batteries.
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    gps12

    From the album: GPS installation

    Here you can see the GPS wired into the spade connectors I spliced in.
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    gps10

    From the album: GPS installation

    There's a bunch of wire I had to hide. The harness wires are long enough to reach the tail of the bike, I have everything buried under the dash but if I ever want to sell the GPS or if I get a bike that I want to hook this up to differently it's nice to have all the wires. There's also a USB connector, mic, and headphone jack that I have no desire to use. I taped them up and tucked them up under the dash as well.
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    gps9

    From the album: GPS installation

    I cut the two wires I was interested in and used the spade connector as a splice. I can unplug and remove the GPS without having to cut and reconnect any wires, not that I plan on doing that.
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    gps8

    From the album: GPS installation

    Green and Gray wire is the power to the headlight. Black is the ground. This is the headlight side of the harness.
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    gps7

    From the album: GPS installation

    These lovely weather proofed spade connectors. The goal is to make the whole thing easily removable.
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    gps5

    From the album: GPS installation

    This is the headlight connector disconnected. This is where I'm going to tap into a power source.
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    gps4

    From the album: GPS installation

    Mount with harness and protective cap. Looks pretty innocuous when there's no GPS mounted.
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    gps2

    From the album: GPS installation

    Looks better painted.
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    gps3

    From the album: GPS installation

    The mount with the GPS bracket on the motorcycle. Clear of everything and the wire elegantly disappears under the fork crown.
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    gps1

    From the album: GPS installation

    Simple clamp holding together a custom GPS mount
  19. #144 in Vancouver BC. This is the second time I've owned the same bike. Sold it to a friend who, thankfully, offered to sell it back to me once I came to my senses...
  20. It's a tough decision to make but I've decided it's time to sell this delightful motorcycle. It's the 2001 80th Anniversary V11 LeMans Rosso Mandello, number 144 of 300. It has just over 17,000 original kilometers on it and it's been well maintained and always stored indoors but shows the usual signs of wear than any six year old motorcycle with this kind of mileage on it would have. It's never been dropped, abused, and is completely stock. I have the Certificate of Authenticity framed and in mint condition and there is also a luggage rack that bolts on at the passenger pegs complete with 2 racks and one bag that comes with the bike. It could probably use new tires and an oil change (I have a filter I will give you with the bike) but that's about it. I know I don't have to describe this bike any more than that to the subscribers of this forum. The bike is located in Calgary Alberta Canada. I'm asking $11790 obo Canadian funds for this rare motorcycle.
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