More goodies for a long-haul
 

When I bought the BMW this spring it came with a Magellen GPS half-ass mounted to the dash....which was clipped to a socket type slot and it was ALWAYS hanging to one side or the other


http://www.troybaker.com/bmw/rt/rt015.jpg

I hated that crap....but didn't have the dough for a new GPS.

Well I scored a decent used Garmin 450 from fleabay but NOW I needed to mount it. I HAD mounted my ipod to the mirror mounts on my grips using one of these:

http://www.techmounts.com/uploads/pr...00_mounted.jpg

...and that worked OK... but it was sort of in the way

So I found the BMR accessory shelf and got the GPS mount to go with it

Whoo hooo!! everything is out of the way now, and in it's place



http://www.troybaker.com/bmw/rt/rt060.jpg


Also ordered some Police bike light mount brackets and got some inexpensive driving/fog lights for deer spotting while I had the dash all tore appart.



http://www.troybaker.com/bmw/rt/rt062.jpg


http://www.troybaker.com/bmw/rt/rt063.jpg

Now I can spot those bastards hiding on the sides of the road

But now....couple the lights with the Police bag lids (see this pic for difference in standard and police lids) if I wear all black everyone slows to a crawl when I pull up behind them :lol:

Nice...however....I can't un-see it now

that looks like the Zumo 550, I guess the 450 looks the same.

God I *heart* my Zumo 550. Definitely one of the best purchases I have made for my Beemer. Bluetooth to my phone so I know who's calling and has my contacts in it, it's my mp3 player, hooked into the starcom1. Amazing piece of technology.

What size card did you go too? 2 gig now and I've got maybe 25 songs on it maxed out.

wtf size songs are you putting on it to kill a 2 gig card with 25 songs? Or is that the on board memory that you killed? Yeah, you can barely fit the map on the zumo, so there is no room for mp3 files.

I had an extra 8 gig card lying around, so that is what I use.

This is a very very important lesson that you need to learn right now.

in your MP3 folder on your card, don't put all your songs in one folder. It will take two years to load up the songs. Put a maximum of 15 songs in seperate folders.

For example I have L:\MP3\ empty

L:\MP3\MISC 1\ - has 15 songs in it
L:\MP3\MISC 2\ - has 15 songs in it
and so on.

I don't know why, but for some reason if I put all my songs in one directory the damn thing freaks out and takes 15 mins to start playing songs. This way, it only takes 30 seconds or so. It won't do mapping unless it's done loading either.

Damn..THATS good to know!

Thanks

Also...what speaker/mic are you using? Starcoms?

I've got the spare Autocom system for the bike I bought from Brian before he died....but not the helmet setup...debating on buying their speaker/mic setup JUST for rider/passenger communications

I went with Starcom1 Digital because they are a little bit cheaper than Autocom equilavent and their cables. It doesn't really matter which one because they are both about the same as far as quality and you can get two way radios, so you can talk to starcoms or autocoms. Since you already got autocom, just buy a headset and cable to hook up the zumo.

looks good! I kinda like that mirror mount thing... what is that?

It's pretty neat. I chucked the stem and just use the arm and craddle now for the iPod on the shelf

http://www.techmounts.com/

I smell another winter mod

Thanks for the link man!