Saturday, March 26, 2022

Farkling...

 So yeah, stuff has been arriving in the mail and stuff needs to be fitted...

First up a tank ring for my Givi bag.  Easy job but I'm not exactly in love with how it all goes together - a little flimsy.  Hopefully it'll be all good.



The courier also brought a set of hot grips and an Eastern Beaver 4CS accessory power wing-ding.

The 4CS has one hot-all-the-time circuit and 3 switched.  As with the S10, the hot grips won't go onto this system as the controller (as the PC-8 on the S10 does) might detect a voltage drop and not allow the grips to stay on.  Direct to the battery they went...

Having installed a few sets of grips now, the job was pretty easy except for getting the LHS grip off.  Man was it glued on!  The heat gun didn't do any damage to the glue and the compressor couldn't get a look in.  In the end the grip died...



Then it was time for the 4CS.

Before shot

This couldn't have been easier as EB make a pug and play kit for the Tenere (pretty sure they do an AT one too Steve, Dave).  The harness plugs directly into one of the handy accessory plugs (see pic) that Yamaha provide and then it's just tidying up the wiring, fitting the fuses and hooking it up to the battery and hey presto.



After:  I'll tidy up more once I connect the GPS and...

Also made up a cable to plug into the tank bag for USB charging and that's currently the only thing plugged into the 4CS.  The GPS will be hooked up once I get a mount - I'm gonna try just running it off the USB, sitting in the see-thru pocket of the tank bag tomorrow/

The only other thing I've done is attached a GoPro mount to the crash bars.  It's one I've had lying around for a while.  I had to move it down the front of the bars so that I just didn't end up with the indicator on film...



2 comments:

  1. Yep my heated grips got a work out everyday on the last ride. Great idea they are.
    Looking forward to some more posts on the Teneree. Would be good in the gravel, the AT is a handful in the gravel, but still satisfyingly fun.

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    1. Yeah, the T7 is a weapon in the gravel - very easy to ride pretty quickly on the stones ;)

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