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I am not on an R18 site to battle about whether one should or should not use a phone case. To each their own. The problem is - BMW did not consider the "to each their own" philosophy here. They made their original design overly complex and way too restrictive. As a significant number of...

I found the connector, but have been documenting most of my stuff over in this thread.

I have found the male connector that will connect to the oem plug in there. First - the bike side plug is a BMW 7543312-02 - it is very common, used all over BMW parts. It is also a Mercedes & VWAG part. The hard part was the charger side plug, but it is often a "fuel injector sensor"...

Yeah, I have ideas for other designs too. My first one may be to keep it simple like it is but add a pocket underneath or something to stash goodies. I chose to go wired instead of wireless because wireless charging generates so much more heat. I have holes and grooves in this design to allow...

Man, a "stop ride" would run afoul of this pretty quick: What To Do About a Vehicle Recall Repair Notice

Hmm, that is an interesting prospect. Although vibration should be much less of a concern if the phone is not "clamped" in to something as a portion of the shock is lost just in the ability of the phone to wiggle freely of what it is sitting on. But I may noodle on that a little. Maybe a thin...

Lamin-X. I took the bezel off, you could do it without - but I think it would look crappy. The bezels hide the outer ring of the laminate well. https://lamin-x.com/bmw-r18-transcontinental-2021-headlight-covers.html

That one is just "PLA+" so it definitely won't handle any significant heat. It's probably only good to like 100 degrees or so at best (inside the cubby). So after I play around with it a bit I am planning on getting one printed with heat resistant ABS or nylon.

Yes. I don't have a "running" picture but it makes them *way* more noticeable. My riding partner said they were way better and I confirmed, when we swapped bikes for a bit.

My wife has a design for a vinyl decal that she made me that I am going to try on the fuel tank flap part, its not a complete wrap but just a decal with a cool design, and I am hoping that it will block enough of the surface area to make it not as quite as much as a 6 inch square mirror on the...

I am still working on finding specific connectors for the charger side of the wiring. The bike side uses a common BMW plug that is easy to find, but the connector for the charger side is harder to figure out. My first try was a BMW X1 fog light cable - grabbed a used one and it didn't work. Next...

Man, I am with the others - the good deals you can find on the TC or B itself, why would I want to expend the cost and effort to do this by hand? But, like, that's just my opinion, man... (channeling the big Lebowski) In any event, as Scott mentioned: the TC has a different wheelbase, and a...

A free service that ties up a service bay but makes them no money... This is where dealerships are failing. I realize I may be preaching to the choir here, but: First - people don't want to buy bikes that don't have good support. Solid support is a huge sales boost. Crappy support is a big...

My Volvo is updating its entire stack and all of the vehicle systems today, in a major version update (including the underlying Android OS major version update) - all over the air while sitting in my driveway.