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@barneyboy Thanks for the info to be honest I have no idea what our ridiculous rules are. Lol
I appreciate the time you took to give me an insight.
safe riding
brian
So kinda' off topic but I have posted here more than anywhere else and I know there are some "men of a certain age" amongst us. I added a Tomtom GPS to my bike a while back to help with longer road trips. I love it. I did not want it on the perch up by my controls so I mounted it closer to the triple tree. Far less obtrusive down there. However, sometime after 50 I needed readers like many do. I don't wear glasses for anything beyond reading but now I'm up to 2.0 for daily stuff. The GPS gives audible directions and the map is clearly visible. It is the street names and some of the cool extra features like upcoming road hazards and gas stations that were really hard to see. I had to lean forward and tilt my helmet down. Not great. I read about stick on readers in other forums. I looked through Amazon and there were several with not great reviews.
. The common complaints were finger prints, smudging and not sticking. The instructions were awful like so many cheap things on Amazon. I figured for about $15 I had little to loose. I could not find any good suggestions on how to get them on without the problems people had but I an pretty good at problem solving. What I did was use blue low tac tape on the outside of the visor to determine where I wanted them taking into account how my eyes crossed looking at my GPS and speedo. I took the visor off and used a very mild soap and water to clean the inside (I do have pinlock intsalled). I used a few drops of the same very mild soap and water on the visor, set the little readers on where I wanted them while wearing latex gloves. I padded them gently with a microfiber towel to get the water off pressing a tad more with each pass. They move when wet. My OCD kicked in after I first checked them because the left was ever so canted. No biggy, with my still gloved hand I pulled that one off, gave a little sprits of the water and did it again taking more care to not let it move. Came out great! I can't see any smudges or finger prints. I leave in a few weeks for a long ride up Idaho through the Mojave Desert then back over the Seirra Navada mountains. I will let you know if they stuck and how they worked
Removed my Dakota Digital Speedo and ignition. Did the CVO ignition flash and changed my dash to an ST. Much cleaner.
That is a lot cleaner, looks good. Funny, took the RKS to work today and on the way home I told myself I would look into a LRS gauge for the RKS, then this popped up. Good job
Removed my Dakota Digital Speedo and ignition. Did the CVO ignition flash and changed my dash to an ST. Much cleaner.
Really clean look. Did you source the dash and gage from HD directly, and how much of a pain was it to do this conversion? I'd be very interested in more details if you don't mind providing them. Thanks
So kinda' off topic but I have posted here more than anywhere else and I know there are some "men of a certain age" amongst us. I added a Tomtom GPS to my bike a while back to help with longer road trips. I love it. I did not want it on the perch up by my controls so I mounted it closer to the triple tree. Far less obtrusive down there. However, sometime after 50 I needed readers like many do. I don't wear glasses for anything beyond reading but now I'm up to 2.0 for daily stuff. The GPS gives audible directions and the map is clearly visible. It is the street names and some of the cool extra features like upcoming road hazards and gas stations that were really hard to see. I had to lean forward and tilt my helmet down. Not great. I read about stick on readers in other forums. I looked through Amazon and there were several with not great reviews.
. The common complaints were finger prints, smudging and not sticking. The instructions were awful like so many cheap things on Amazon. I figured for about $15 I had little to loose. I could not find any good suggestions on how to get them on without the problems people had but I an pretty good at problem solving. What I did was use blue low tac tape on the outside of the visor to determine where I wanted them taking into account how my eyes crossed looking at my GPS and speedo. I took the visor off and used a very mild soap and water to clean the inside (I do have pinlock intsalled). I used a few drops of the same very mild soap and water on the visor, set the little readers on where I wanted them while wearing latex gloves. I padded them gently with a microfiber towel to get the water off pressing a tad more with each pass. They move when wet. My OCD kicked in after I first checked them because the left was ever so canted. No biggy, with my still gloved hand I pulled that one off, gave a little sprits of the water and did it again taking more care to not let it move. Came out great! I can't see any smudges or finger prints. I leave in a few weeks for a long ride up Idaho through the Mojave Desert then back over the Seirra Navada mountains. I will let you know if they stuck and how they worked
I've used these with decent results on sunglasses, and wondered about sticking them to a motorcycle visor.
Isn't it a bit weird, having them far away from your eyes like that?
Really clean look. Did you source the dash and gage from HD directly, and how much of a pain was it to do this conversion? I'd be very interested in more details if you don't mind providing them. Thanks
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