Having a Ball!

On the new bike. I am riding around all the twistiest hilliest lanes I can find and it’s behaving impeccably. My 600 miles service is booked for the 31st March which means that I have to be a bit careful not to put many more miles on it. I am planning a longish rideout with other GSers on the 30th and need to keep some miles in hand for that.

I have now rigged up leads for my Gerbings heated jacket liner and for a TomTom satnav. I connected the heated jacket direct to the battery via an inline fused lead but for the TomTom I plumbed it in via a Canbus connector to the spare Canbus socket under the centre trim panel. I now need to think about how I connect up my iPod. At present I am using custom earplug/speakers for the TomTom connected to a little Bluetooth thingy. But I need to multiplex the iPod somehow. I am not at all sure I can do this with the current Bluetooth gadget and I am not sure if the TomTom will recognise others. It’s the TomTom Rider 1 and it doesn’t for instance, recognise the Jaba bluetooth thing I use for my mobile.

Unlike the Goldwing, I have no built in electronics for this sort of thing, so I might just install an autocom and possibly, use my Garmin 2820 from the Goldwing, instead of the TomTom

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