pozo_izquierdo
Apr 3rd, 2006, 12:54 pm
Now this one is a small snack between the bigger tasks but I thought maybe someone could have use for this.
I got the idea for this ghetto mod last summer when I was riding in Lithuania with my workmate who has a new R 1200 GS. We were on a work trip and we left his bike sit one day at the hotel and went to do our business two up on my bike.
Next morning when we were supposed to start heading 650 km north to Estonia to catch our ferry to Helsinki his battery was totally dead. It was early August so it was extremely hard to get access to jumper cables in Kaunas, Lithuania. Everybody seemed to have them at home…Finally one friendly cage driver went and picked up the cables from his home some 20 minutes away.
All this jumper cable hassle took more than an hour but luckily we had some slack in our schedule to the ferry.
So I decided that I or my riding buddy will not get stranded because of lacking jumper cables. Of course one could just toss them on the bottom of the trunk or side case but usually you could use that cargo space for more important and especially more frequently needed things.
I found a suitable shelf on the top of the exhaust pipe. This is obviously some kind of a heat shield and there seems to be just perfect space for a (motorcycle grade) jumper cable set. At least the space seems suitable in my bike with the Remus exhaust system and I strongly believe that this shelf does not get so hot that the cables would melt. But, with stock exhaust with cat the case may be different. So make sure before doing the same...
Anyway, I made connectors in both ends of the cables, connected the ground cable in one of the ground terminals (but did not connect the positive cable of course). I did not have space for the clip-on connectors so the round ones will have to do.
Now the cables are just behind three allen screws that hold the passenger floorboards plus some copper wires that hold them on the shelf. (I did not want to use the zip ties just to make sure if the heat gets too high for them and the cables would fall under my rear wheel…)
I’ll keep you informed in case the heat has some effect on the cables.
To be continued
Regards
I got the idea for this ghetto mod last summer when I was riding in Lithuania with my workmate who has a new R 1200 GS. We were on a work trip and we left his bike sit one day at the hotel and went to do our business two up on my bike.
Next morning when we were supposed to start heading 650 km north to Estonia to catch our ferry to Helsinki his battery was totally dead. It was early August so it was extremely hard to get access to jumper cables in Kaunas, Lithuania. Everybody seemed to have them at home…Finally one friendly cage driver went and picked up the cables from his home some 20 minutes away.
All this jumper cable hassle took more than an hour but luckily we had some slack in our schedule to the ferry.
So I decided that I or my riding buddy will not get stranded because of lacking jumper cables. Of course one could just toss them on the bottom of the trunk or side case but usually you could use that cargo space for more important and especially more frequently needed things.
I found a suitable shelf on the top of the exhaust pipe. This is obviously some kind of a heat shield and there seems to be just perfect space for a (motorcycle grade) jumper cable set. At least the space seems suitable in my bike with the Remus exhaust system and I strongly believe that this shelf does not get so hot that the cables would melt. But, with stock exhaust with cat the case may be different. So make sure before doing the same...
Anyway, I made connectors in both ends of the cables, connected the ground cable in one of the ground terminals (but did not connect the positive cable of course). I did not have space for the clip-on connectors so the round ones will have to do.
Now the cables are just behind three allen screws that hold the passenger floorboards plus some copper wires that hold them on the shelf. (I did not want to use the zip ties just to make sure if the heat gets too high for them and the cables would fall under my rear wheel…)
I’ll keep you informed in case the heat has some effect on the cables.
To be continued
Regards