RE: Winter Farkling Begins - lights, camera, sound and more - 2

It's been a bit of a slow-progress week. Most of the week was spent looking, planning, measuring, testing, replanning, remeasuring, retesting various light/accessory placements and wiring options. And then measuring thrice to cut only once for some mounting pieces.

I've now got a plan I largely like and have begun executing on. I got the wiring harness for the front clearwater lights and the rear licence plate brake/turn additions done.

Next up are two more brake/turn lights I want to mount up high and wide in the rear for added visibility. I thought I was going to put them on the side bags, but have come up with a plan to mount to the Shad top plate, which would position them wide, under the top box, and leave them there even if I run without the top box. The latter will likely look a little funny, but I'm going for visibilty/safety here, so I'm willing to take a small hit there... plus, I'm thinking it's likely I'll end up running with the top box most the time anyway.

Has anyone found a good spot for a flush-mount 2.5mm female barrel connector for heated gear? I generally have the enter thru my left pocket of my Aerostitch, so I could just leave the pigtail coming out of the front seat along frame rail. Or it appears, there may be a piece of the panel under the seat that could work. thoughts? pictures?

did some work on these mounts last night. Like it so far; tonight will try and sand/round the edges a bit and hopefully get them on

Finally got these installed last night and am happy with how they turned out. Where I live there's a lot of distracted drivers + traffic, and imo, the tail lights are so small/dim on bikes these days, the more lights to get drivers attention and increase visibility, the better.

I had debated putting lights on the bags themselves - both top case to be higher and side bags to be wider - but decided on this solution, mounted to the Shad top box mount. This allowed for easier (and cleaner) wiring as well as always-on-the-bike mounting. It also gets the lights within 6" of the outer edge of the side bags, all of which seemed like a reasonable compromise to me.

next up, wiring up the load side of PDM60 and EzCan

feel good update: front lights tested with harness and working. phew!

rear harness soldered up. gettin there. man there's not a lot of extra space to work in up front!

I made some progress over the weekend, then lost about a night and a half worth of work.

Friday night, I spent considerable time positioning and trimming cables, zip tying them, routing them, etc. All to be ready for
Saturday night, I managed to have good soldering karma and got all remaining connections done pretty nicely with almost no rework.
Sunday night, before I got too excited, I tested everything and verified all working before tucking away final slack and positioning everything under the rear seat. I nearly finished
Last night, I was excited to finish under the seat, got it mostly squared away and thought - let me just check seat clearance... and. A R G. I didn't think about the rear clips/clearance. So instead, I spent most of last night pulling all my wires out, cutting what felt like 50 zip ties and basically starting that all over. On the plus side, I should be able to finish tonight, having discovered usable space under the seat-locking mechanism. I believe the final version should prove neater as well.

I also ran into an SXM antenna issue, that I'm glad I found now, but will delay buttoning everything up. We just got another winter storm warning for the weekend, so at least I won't miss a riding opportunity. Next up, finish that, install my switches, and find a place for new SXM antenna. I also need to decide on installing some hand guards or not. I snagged one of the Alibaba sets Fred recommended.

Wow! That is a lot of wiring.

I take it this will be a stayer......

yes and yes I've been able to trim down some of the wires to help with the hornet's nest, but still a lot.

Most of my day rides are 300-400 miles and I'm planning a few week or so trips this year (I remain an optimist), but also just like to have things setup, so there's less I have to mess with each time I can go riding.

Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #19

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feel good update: front lights tested with harness and working. phew!

rear harness soldered up. gettin there. man there's not a lot of extra space to work in up front!

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Zitat von Ray im Beitrag #21

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Wow! That is a lot of wiring.

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The terminal is a grounding ring, so it would look nicer covered, but it should be ok exposed. It's also a bit less congested now that I reworked everything. I'm all but done with the wiring. the new antenna is last piece, and it's delayed in shipping due to weather. I can't complain, I'd rather a vaccine get here before my antenna.

I decided against the MaMo AdventGuard at present. It's a quality product and not only did I read on their website I'd have to take off the winglets - they called me to make sure I still wanted it... and I thought I'd try it. But its somewhat involved taking all that off and I'm not sure I like the look as much. I am instead going to try custom fitting a piece of scrap carbon fiber over the front engine and see what I think of that. Hope to love it; may then give Guard a proper go; may just wash it after each ride and not worry about it.

Progress took a pause this weekend, but resumed last night, with finishing the switch installation up front. I'll chip away at some more odds and ends til I can finish the wiring, cause of corse that one antenna wire runes stem to stern.

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Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #19

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feel good update: front lights tested with harness and working. phew!

rear harness soldered up. gettin there. man there's not a lot of extra space to work in up front!

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I will keep my eyes out for the sun rising to the North.

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Got the MudSling on last night and the tail wires tucked away. Moved the windscreen grommets from OEM to Givi windscreen.

In the absence of a better solution, I ended up splurging on the Wunderlich cam mount. It's a ridiculously overpriced set of 2 pieces of aluminum.... but highly functional and simple. And I could not come up with an easy way to create stays to offset, say a bent piece of AL or CF. So I'll put that on with the windscreen tonight, in part to check clearances.

May also attempt that front guard. For the rear, I know there's the Aussie piece, but like those using a mud flap, I happen to have a 6" x 24" piece of 0.5mm CF... that fits quite nicely between the bottom reflector on the tail and contours up and under to nearly the mudsling. Taking one out of the mud sling book, I could zip tie it to the tail. This would not looks super sexy, but doesn't look terrible either. I'm not sure if it's worth doing now or seeing how bad the spray is.

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Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #24

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Zitat von backRoadS im Beitrag #19

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feel good update: front lights tested with harness and working. phew!

rear harness soldered up. gettin there. man there's not a lot of extra space to work in up front!

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I will keep my eyes out for the sun rising to the North.

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you may see a sunset too ;)

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Antenna looks to finally be arriving today, so not a ton of progress, but hope to wrap this up this weekend. I did some clean up, worked on tidying up the wires I can and spent all last night fighting with bluetooth pairings... and lost. Will keep at it, but can pretty much do that with bike back together. Only one other part I'm waiting on a friend finish, so can't rush that one.

I decided to try my hand a cutting an engine guard out of 0.5mm carbon fiber. I think it looks pretty good and so long as it holds with heat and vibrations will keep it in play.