As requested a few pics of the mods so far, please note this is work in progress and especially the TomTom will be having some major refitting as soon as i've completed the design and construction of a new fitting, will include an image of my initial pencil design.
First of the Givi box fitted to a E121 universal plate, bolted on with 4x M6x40mm bolts with repair washers and nylon nuts to prevent pull through.
Next up was the Oxford Heated grips, with these I had a little fun, left hand handlebar needed a fair bit of persuasion to get the grip in place but a bit of washing up liquid and some patience finally saw it seated. On the Throttle slider it was necessary for me to file down the lip provided for securing the standard rubber grips to get the grip in a position where it was not rubbing anywhere therebye allowing unrestricted movement of the throttle and most importantly its ability to spring shut instantly if released.
Left hand grip and controller
New controller, buttons instead of rotary knob
Right hand grip and showing standard TomTom mount
Side view showing problem with standard mount, its too close to the rider hence I will be building something more suitable
Heres one showing the TomTom in situ
Finally I have 2 different plans on the drawing board to improve the TomTom position, to place it between the yokes, the first plan I will show you below, consists of engineering a stud to accept a RAM mount ball thus utilising some of the kit that comes with the TomTom for mounting. Plan 2 will utilise the same stud but run into a tubular bar with the TomTom being mounted direct to a custom plate. I will build both and see which works best in the real world.
Below is a photo showing which stud I intend to utilise
Stud design (only a rough at the moment was not really ready to announce this to the world but what the heck).
basically it will be a stainless steel rod, upon which the left hand side will be threaded to act as the allen bolt shown removed in the picture above, it will be tightened using the flats ground into the bar and will be tapped to accept either a bolt or a standard 3/8" stud from a 1" RAM mount ball. The TomTom will then either be mounted via the ball and RAM arms or the plate and rod setup i'm still working on at paper level.
Thanks for reading.
