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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 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...
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.
Yeah, the roadtop ones are just purely CarPlay. And they have a few different sizes too - but they would not integrate with cameras and whatnot. They are just basic.
Software is not BS, everything is computerized now. Updates are often needed.
What I think we will see though, is states are really getting into the "right to repair" trend now - so hopefully we will start having the ability to do more on our own at some point - because needing to pay the...
I have been considering something like this, just using RAM mounts instead of anything more permanent:
https://roadtop.com/products/motorcycle-6inch-carplay
Our PDX metro folks had a decent number on hand when I was there this past weekend, and they had two of a beautiful color scheme (Option 719 Moonstone) which I think looks great but they said they have had zero interest.
They have a few of several R18 trim levels on hand. But as others have...