rayban
Grouchy old fat guy
For those interested in seeing an 06 FJR naked, check out my repost from FJROwners.com...
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It was close to sunset, so forgive the lighting. Also, the camera's batteries were dying, so it was a bit hurried and unplanned.
The first picture is of the right side, where the battery and related electrical would normally be hidden by the right upper fairing. Notice the 2 terminal blocks, velcroed to the side of the battery compartment, and the relay, velcroed to the bottom. These were installed as the connection point for electrical items per the writeups on fjrtech.com (click the link down in my signature section to go to the matching writeup).
The positive leads are connected to the right side terminal block, which is powered by the relay. The relay is powered by a fused wire directly to the positive terminal on the battery, and is "switched" on by tapping onto the power wire to the right side turn signal via a blue 3m connector. It's ground runs to the negative terminal block.
The negative leads are connected to the left side terminal block, which is grounded directly to the negative terminal on the battery. The GPS's motorcycle install kit power wire was HUGELY long, so I coiled up the extra, zip tied the coil permanently and then attached it via another zip tie to hang off one of the major subharnesses. It provides little if any "tug".
This second picutre shows the Autocomm tucked under the pilot's seat. I lifted up the bracket. It is held in place via velco. The power lead runs up the right side of the bike following other wires. The GPS audio connects to AUX3. The lead for the mp3 player is AUX2. I removed the radar detector lead from AUX1 because they're illegal here and I haven't bothered buying one as I thought I would. The mic connection to the GPS is done via the special cable that connects to both the GPS mic port and the audio port on the GPS power cable and then runs back to the Autocomm. I had to specially request that cable from an Autocomm rep by telling them I had a Garmin 2820 and needed the special cable. What that does is let me use the GPS's bluetooth connectivity to link in my cell phone. Yes, I can talk on the phone via bluetooth without buying/installing a bluetooth module.
Here we see the Garmin 2820 mounted, via the Techmount left mirror mount and the Garmin motorcycle mount kit. It's locked down in a position that puts it directly over the clutch resevoir and angled towards the pilot.
Visually, it blocks the first 1500 rpm range on the tach, that's about it. It's very close to the left/clutch hand, making manipulation faster and (slightly) safer than a center mount.
Normally, the XM radio/weather/traffic antenna would be velcro mounted on the rear/upward angle face of the right saddlebag, but now that we're naked, it's velcroed to the metal bracket by the tail light assembly.
This is just a general view of the left side where the fairing would be. Notice the big "gap" (where the glovebox assembly would be). Don't be fooled into thinking you have a lot of space to mount farkles up in there. Between the cooling subsystem parts and the glove box, that zone is almost as full as the battery side, but there is SOME room up there.
We'll wrap this up with a general view of the bike, from the right, as the sun goes down. My Schubert C2 helmet is sitting over the GPS, which is how I leave the bike in secure areas (like my jobsite). Naked, the bike is a little lighter handling, but I don't notice a lot of difference in the power. I still dislike the lack of aggression at midrange when you're "getting on it." I haven't been impressed with the paint quotes so far (today's was $3,842 US). I may simply replace the moving-damage marred pieces on their own one at a time. Hope you enjoyed the pics. If you want a specific picture of some area while it's naked, just let me know.
You may click on any image to launch a high-detail (bigger) version.
It was close to sunset, so forgive the lighting. Also, the camera's batteries were dying, so it was a bit hurried and unplanned.
The first picture is of the right side, where the battery and related electrical would normally be hidden by the right upper fairing. Notice the 2 terminal blocks, velcroed to the side of the battery compartment, and the relay, velcroed to the bottom. These were installed as the connection point for electrical items per the writeups on fjrtech.com (click the link down in my signature section to go to the matching writeup).
The positive leads are connected to the right side terminal block, which is powered by the relay. The relay is powered by a fused wire directly to the positive terminal on the battery, and is "switched" on by tapping onto the power wire to the right side turn signal via a blue 3m connector. It's ground runs to the negative terminal block.
The negative leads are connected to the left side terminal block, which is grounded directly to the negative terminal on the battery. The GPS's motorcycle install kit power wire was HUGELY long, so I coiled up the extra, zip tied the coil permanently and then attached it via another zip tie to hang off one of the major subharnesses. It provides little if any "tug".
This second picutre shows the Autocomm tucked under the pilot's seat. I lifted up the bracket. It is held in place via velco. The power lead runs up the right side of the bike following other wires. The GPS audio connects to AUX3. The lead for the mp3 player is AUX2. I removed the radar detector lead from AUX1 because they're illegal here and I haven't bothered buying one as I thought I would. The mic connection to the GPS is done via the special cable that connects to both the GPS mic port and the audio port on the GPS power cable and then runs back to the Autocomm. I had to specially request that cable from an Autocomm rep by telling them I had a Garmin 2820 and needed the special cable. What that does is let me use the GPS's bluetooth connectivity to link in my cell phone. Yes, I can talk on the phone via bluetooth without buying/installing a bluetooth module.
Here we see the Garmin 2820 mounted, via the Techmount left mirror mount and the Garmin motorcycle mount kit. It's locked down in a position that puts it directly over the clutch resevoir and angled towards the pilot.
Visually, it blocks the first 1500 rpm range on the tach, that's about it. It's very close to the left/clutch hand, making manipulation faster and (slightly) safer than a center mount.
Normally, the XM radio/weather/traffic antenna would be velcro mounted on the rear/upward angle face of the right saddlebag, but now that we're naked, it's velcroed to the metal bracket by the tail light assembly.
This is just a general view of the left side where the fairing would be. Notice the big "gap" (where the glovebox assembly would be). Don't be fooled into thinking you have a lot of space to mount farkles up in there. Between the cooling subsystem parts and the glove box, that zone is almost as full as the battery side, but there is SOME room up there.
We'll wrap this up with a general view of the bike, from the right, as the sun goes down. My Schubert C2 helmet is sitting over the GPS, which is how I leave the bike in secure areas (like my jobsite). Naked, the bike is a little lighter handling, but I don't notice a lot of difference in the power. I still dislike the lack of aggression at midrange when you're "getting on it." I haven't been impressed with the paint quotes so far (today's was $3,842 US). I may simply replace the moving-damage marred pieces on their own one at a time. Hope you enjoyed the pics. If you want a specific picture of some area while it's naked, just let me know.
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