A soldering iron, some solder, heatshrink tubing and a half hour were all it took - oh I forgot the multimeter I used to confirm which wire was the ground wire in the bike’’s system - it was indeed the green wire.
The turn flashers are brighter than they appear here when viewed from the [...]

My paper Aerostich catalogue landed on the mat yesterday and for those of you who haven”t yet acquired one of these I suggest you do so without delay - it is a veritable Aladdin’’s cave of biking gear porn and guaranteed to be injurious to your financial health.
On the back cover was an ad for [...]

The special amber Muth mirrors I ordered arrived yesterday and as the fitting instructions looked pretty easy I rushed to fit them. Unfortunately, as I discovered, the supplied harness is designed for a USA spec bike with three wires to the mirror housing - one of which I found out after emailing Muth, is for [...]

I spoke directly to Autocom this morning who confirmed that their Pro AVI unit can indeed be installed in the manner I wish viz:- integrating all bike audio functions and providing a bike to bike facility although this requires a separate transceiver (walkie-talkie pair). They also do installation work at their place in Warwick including [...]

Questions posted here and there about the Autocom Pro Avi have been answered in a positive vein (notably at Rider”’’s Rally) where a couple of members have helpfully provided the valuable info that I can wire the unit into the passenger headset lead and get the full bike inputs. One kind person has sent me [...]

Questions posted here and there about the Autocom Pro Avi have been answered in a positive vein (notably at Rider’’s Rally) where a couple of members have helpfully provided the valuable info that I can wire the unit into the passenger headset lead and get the full bike inputs. One kind person has sent me [...]

Thanks to Dave’’s advice on the problem with high impedance speakers in my old Autocom headset I was reminded of the custom fit earbuds (that I had made for me at a motorcycle show) which have speakers built in. I previously used these with the TomTom on my Pan via a bluetooth thingy that reposed [...]

I have a helmet equipped with an Autcom headset - sadly the Autocom unit is no longer to be found but I figured that all I needed was a 5 pin DIN cable extension and I would be able to connect my helmet to the bike”’’s 5 pin fly lead. Well, I can but unfortunately [...]

I have a helmet equipped with an Autcom headset - sadly the Autocom unit is no longer to be found but I figured that all I needed was a 5 pin DIN cable extension and I would be able to connect my helmet to the bike’’s 5 pin fly lead. Well, I can but unfortunately [...]

Having bought the bike and having joined the GWOCGB, the next logical step is to equip myself to attend WingDings and Treffens. First step in this process is to get suitable camping gear and considering the number of years since I last undertook this masochistic(?) way of spending time away from home comforts it is [...]