tpx 2.0 radar detector installation

[ropjohns]

i need help!  i just purchased a tpx radar detector, and i am having trouble seeing how i am going to route the wires up to the handlebars.  has anyone done this exact thing, and can they help me out with it??  would be very appreciated!

[motocopter]

Get a Professional Kit CK-1 from http://www.vintageconnections.com/ and you'll be able to do lots - electrically speaking. I tapped power for my TPX at the connector for the accessory power outlet. I made a plug-in pig-tails for this location. Think through the bullet/socket contact placement on the hot/ground wires. Then, added the contacts to the TPX wiring, and connected. My TPX powers up with the key.

[Broz]

I have a passport radar detector. I wired it directly to the battery. I ran the wires up the right side which is pretty easy no need to remove fairing.  From the opening on the top right side of handle bars i just used some zip ties to fix the wires to the bars.  The extra wire I zip tied to the air duct hose on the right side inside the fairing.

I  used a fiberglass kite batten to thread the wire between the fairing and the foam gaskets. I pushed it up from the right side above battery compartment and it pops out up near the opening.  A coat hanger would be too stiff but something about the same diameter is what would work well.    Good luck.
Broz

[ropjohns]

what is a fiberglass kite batten?  i'm wondering if there is something i can get at home depot for this purpose, as i have nothing around my house that i can think of...

[Broz]

I saw something in the electical dept at lowes that is made for fishing wires thru drywall. It was 6-8 feet long. I would use your imagination and make something work from stuff you have around the house/garage.  An old fishing rod something flexible. Kite batten is like a batten in a sail. Keeps the kite or sail from flapping. Mine was a spare from and old kitesurfing kite.

[Broz]

Point I'm trying to make is you don't have to remove any fairing to run wire to front of bike or under seat from battery compartment.  Just push/ pull the wires thru. There is room to make it happen. Also I wrpped the wire w some cork screw type wire covering g I got at Radio Shack to prevent chaffing.

[ropjohns]

yeah i went to home depot and just got a bunch of 14 inch zip ties. put 2 of em together and connected one to the wire and fished up and through the foam part in front of the gas tank(eventually).  it was actually kinda fun once i realized it was going to work.  wires cleaned up, detector on, everything ready to speed....thanks for the responses!

[PlaynInPeoria]

You don't have to expose your detector to the wind, you can move it over a couple inches behind the fairing.  It will receive through the plastic just fine.  And I don't just mean the clear windscreen, I mean the black plastic.  Test it with a known radar source if you don't believe me.  I have mine mounted similarly but it's behind the windscreen and down a bit. There's a narrow range where it's high enough, yet low enough to where the handlebars will clear it when they are at full lock.

[Son of Pappy]

  I gotta get this off my mind.

WTF is the moral outrage at mounting a radar detector?  I mean a guy asks where he can get a PDF service manual and the hinges come off the door.

Rant off, I like how the mount looks and have nothing against folks who use detectors or for that matter a PDF version of the manual but I do have strong feelings for hypocrits...

Yes, I like KIPASS, use a full synthetic oil since mile 75ish, and I think car tires belong on cars.  I am also against search nazis.  Did I miss anything?

[PlaynInPeoria]

Does anyone care he's mounting a radar detector? I think the problem is with copyrighted material, which could get the site shut down.  I suspect the outrage would be just as bad if he posted a pdf of "50 Shades of Gray".  Well, ok more, because no self respecting man should be reading that.

[gPink]

Does anyone care he's mounting a radar detector? I think the problem is with copyrighted material, which could get the site shut down.  I suspect the outrage would be just as bad if he posted a pdf of "50 Shades of Gray".  Well, ok more, because no self respecting man should be reading that.

And you know this how? 

[Son of Pappy]

PIP, I think you may have missed my point.  I agree, this or any other site should not post an unauthorized PDF of anything, but for members to share where to get it in a non link form?  The moral outrage is what gets me, some laws are OK to be broken and even flaunted, yet others?  I'm not lilly white, yet I like to think I live well within MY moral values and work really hard at not forcing those values onto others.  Especially outside the Arena.


Like gPink, I too am interested in your knowledge of 50SG

[motocopter]

Gosh, it was installed over a year and half ago and I'm not certain why I chose that location. It may be due to the laser detection and suspecting that the unit needed line of sight exposure. What is your take on laser?

You don't have to expose your detector to the wind, you can move it over a couple inches behind the fairing.  It will receive through the plastic just fine.  And I don't just mean the clear windscreen, I mean the black plastic.  Test it with a known radar source if you don't believe me.  I have mine mounted similarly but it's behind the windscreen and down a bit. There's a narrow range where it's high enough, yet low enough to where the handlebars will clear it when they are at full lock.

[AZBob]

Gosh, it was installed over a year and half ago and I'm not certain why I chose that location. It may be due to the laser detection and suspecting that the unit needed line of sight exposure. What is your take on laser?

It doesn't work, and when it does, all it tells you is that you've been tagged you should check your mirrors for some pretty lights. Better off with a device that jams laser, apparently there are some that work and a lot that don't but claim they do. They're illegal in some jurisdictions, however. I prefer to just keep it within 10 of the posted limit most of the time.

[ZG]

I prefer to just keep it within 10 of the posted limit most of the time.

[PlaynInPeoria]

PIP, I think you may have missed my point.  I agree, this or any other site should not post an unauthorized PDF of anything, but for members to share where to get it in a non link form?  The moral outrage is what gets me, some laws are OK to be broken and even flaunted, yet others?  I'm not lilly white, yet I like to think I live well within MY moral values and work really hard at not forcing those values onto others.  Especially outside the Arena.


Like gPink, I too am interested in your knowledge of 50SG ;D

I don't think it's moral.outrage, just protecting the site.

And my gf read and loved 50SG. I was considering reading it to learn some tricks to play on her that she might enjoy, she's a nice looking gal and ahem "adventurous"? But I read the reviews and apparently the writing is just BAD so I can't stoop to it. But I did buy her some books in that vein that are more well written/ not idiotic but still a bit twisted. So I am gonna read them (yep!), give them to her and I'm sure she'll devour them. Then I'll bust s move like out of one of the books. Might be fun.

[Jake Mountain]

It doesn't work, and when it does, all it tells you is that you've been tagged you should check your mirrors for some pretty lights. Better off with a device that jams laser, apparently there are some that work and a lot that don't but claim they do. They're illegal in some jurisdictions, however. I prefer to just keep it within 10 of the posted limit most of the time.

Now that just takes the fun right out of riding a C14 doesn't it