It is tough to make out everything in those photos (because I am not there, the photos are excellent) but it looks like you are using the same mounting frame, from side- to- side over the instrument cluster but also anchored in front, to hold the Garmin in both setups. Is that right?
Again, tough to tell but it does look like a lot of weight hanging off the front of that mounting rail. ??
I hear you about being in- line with your vision though; I normally run with two GPS's, one mounted on each handlebar, and both are too low and to far aside of my line- of- sight to be anywhere near safe to use when riding. Even looking at them is a problem, more of a focus issue in my own case (I have a nasty case of the 'long arm' disease where I cannot focus on anything closer than the neighbor's yard it seems).
If that thing is light enough and rugged enough, it should survive though. Is the underlying mounting bracket still sound? Any cracking in the fairing or edge mounts of that bracket? I have never seen one of those before and it is hard to tell how much it projects to the rear.
That looks like a 660 or 665 Zumo and by the looks, you are finding it washing out in sunlight (because of the cover over it and on the sides). I have a 665 and a 550, and the 550 is the only one I can see in direct sunlight, and often the only one I can see in bright daylight at all; to this day the 550 remains my main GPS even though it is obsolete and is carrying old maps now.
And yeah, there should be a LOT of Easy Boys! if your post, especially around the 'egg shaped balls' and the drooping parts.
Brian
I'm experimenting with a dual Ram ball setup for my GPS. I had a high mount GPS set up using only one Ram ball, but over the years the cantilevered bouncing has taken it's toll. The Ram balls were becoming quite egg shaped from me constantly squeezing them just a little bit tighter. (an "EZboys" should go here, but I'm curious as to what you guys can come up with, so no.)
Here is the old set up:
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...and here is what I'm experimenting with at the moment:
I think it is going to work out OK, and it lets me center the XM antenna so it doesn't keep rubbing on the windshield. I wish I had done it this way in the first place. I guess I was just going cheap at the time.
Silly wabbit! Going cheap on farkles is for KLR owners.