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[badaboum]

Hey

Thanks for your support.

I have studied the bike for week before arriving to that system.

I have done the same on my 2008 Burgman 400 scooter but with a single speaker (self made).

The bike is ''limited'' still. I am ready to unleash the 155hp but waiting for the law to change.

The bike is already way powerfull enough with the 106BHP.

More mods are on their way : BMW K1600GT style blinkers..

CHeers

[Ros]

The bike is ''limited'' still. I am ready to unleash the 155hp but waiting for the law to change.

The bike is already way powerfull enough with the 106BHP.

Indeed. Mine is also 106hp French spec. Do you know what progress is being made about the law change?

The bike is indeed powerful enough for most riding, although I do miss some extra oooomph when riding two-up with half a ton of baggage.

The 'ECO' mode is crap and jerky, though and I can see no difference in fuel consumption. Have you noticed that?

I don't think I have ever taken mine to the red line just because there is no point.  I would like to feel the 'elastic band' effect that my old English ZZR had with power increasing pretty much all the way to 14,000revs....... The 'rest of world' GTR must be incredible to ride. It is apparently better on fuel economy than the FR one too.

I'm currently trying to weigh up whether to sell mine in France and buy one in Italy, or import the current one to Italy and have it breathed on....  I'd prefer to keep the current one because... Well, because it's mine! 

[doebag]

Well finally found some time to install my Garmin on the 1400
A lot easier than expected, though a ready fitted bracket and accesory leads  were a big help.
I routed the cable through the left side cable guide, then looped it around the left hand fairing to the panel in front of the tank [ 2011 model ]
All the fly leads are looped under here, but can be accessed by removing the panel. The 12v pos and neg leads then go back to the front accessory connectors. I have the 'speaker out' lead exposed [ running down the panel join gap ], the rest are under the cover panel.

[badaboum]

The law is going to take time to change in France... but I beleive it will eventually arrive.

I agree that sometime I would like more BHP when riding with my girl...but lets be honest, the GTR is 106 BHP and when you are at full load , around 500kg, that gives you 200 HP per ton... way more than any car...

Drop one gear down and the problem is gone...

But that's true, the limited bike heat more and are less fuel efficient.... but, there is a big advantage :

The life of the bike will be longer as all the part a stressed less than the 155BHP they are supposed to get... I am talking about the gearbox, the shaft etc etc.... So I expect less problem than a full bike...

Right?

Mine is an 08, so I am the ECO mode 

[Lonewolf]

Doebag, the cable you have showing on the photos, is it preventing the panels from sitting flush? It might just be the light or angle the photo was taken at but it looks like it has forced a gap between the panels.

I just ran my power cable to the Garmin bracket up by the headstock and cable tied it to tidy it up.

[doebag]

Lonewolf.
The gap betwen the fairing and the tank is the natural shut line between the two.

However, having checked the black plastic panel again, the front mounting bolt by the headstock takes up some slack [ assembley tolerances I guess] and  there is enough flex in the panel to lift the rear edge where it sits on the tank.
I have spaced underneath the panel with a rubber washer at the front end, which gives enough lift to make the rear edge sit tight to the tank. The panel has a soft rubber seal to prevent water ingress, and this is easily dislodged from it's clips when refitting the panel.

[O.C.]

I decided to purchase a Garmin Zumo 660, and after trying it out for the past couple of weeks I must say that its a great unit.

However Ive been trying to load music onto a micro SD card following Garmin instructions, and whilst the music has loaded onto the card the Zumo refuses to find anything within the MP3 file

Have any of you other Zumo 660 users had a simular experience or what am I doing wrong

I've tried loading to the card with an adapter and then putting the card into the device, (which I understand is the incorrect method) and that doesn't work. Also I've  loaded tracks onto the micro card (whilst it was in place within the device) using a hard wire connection and that doesn't work either

Any ideas ???[/b]

[Ros]

How big is yer SD card. I heard it'll only cope with max 8Gb....

No probs with mine, but I have to say, I tried riding with Three Days Grace and discovered very quickly that riding with music in the helmet is VERY distracting... Also, it's not so easy to pause when necessary...

Might be better to install some big-ass speakers in the side cases 

[O.C.]

How big is yer SD card. I heard it'll only cope with max 8Gb....

No probs with mine, but I have to say, I tried riding with Three Days Grace and discovered very quickly that riding with music in the helmet is VERY distracting... Also, it's not so easy to pause when necessary...

Might be better to install some big-ass speakers in the side cases 

Its an 8gb card, which should be ok...I wondered if there was something within the device settings that was holding things up

[routemaster]

Hi

I have a 16GB SD card in my Zumo 660 with about 1700 tracks loaded.

Just very very occasionally when I turn the 660 on the Media player fails to find any MP3 files and reverts to audio books which can be annoying. Usually I turn it off, wait a few minutes and then turn it back on again. In terms of loading the files on to the SD card I used Windows Media Player with no problems apart from the length of time it took.

Kind regards

Steve

[O.C.]

Thanks Steve,....I've used Windows Media Player also. and loaded the files onto my Zumo via a hard connection with the micro card installed, through removable devices in 'my computer' it took a while, but seemd to load ok, the available space on the card reduced accordingly.

I've now tried switching the device on several times but it still wont find any MP3 files...its a mystery

If I put the micro card into its adapter its possible to play its content through my lap top so the files are definitely on the card...I'm baffled.

[viper]

Viper, I haven't (as yet) used a Garmin Zumo, but I can say that when I did an update on my Tom Tom I was faced with exactly the same situation as you describe, namely "insufficient space on memory card", to overcome this problem it was necessary to delete all previous maps,which is a bit worrying, but that does release sufficient space to upload new information, and did result in my Tom Tom being bang up to date, and quickly too, (about 30 minutes from start to finish) 

My guess is that you didn't delete previous maps and therefore ended up with a duplication of information which would confuse the Zumo device. This situation would also lead to the upload taking a massive amount of time whilst the device and the upload tried to interface, a pal of mine also had to leave his device uploading 'overnight' in much the same way as you describe.

I suspect that when you contact Garmin they will confirm that this is the case...good luck and please let us know how you get on.

phoned garmin support , who turned out to be fairly helpful and knowledgable. They talked me through deleting my old maps, in fact we moved them to a folder on the pc.

Once my zumo was clean of old maps , i installed uk only on the device and then loaded europe onto the Sd card, they suggested this as it helps with speed on calculations. Ive not tried the zumo yet but just the downloading went quick and without problems so im sure this is the fix,     yah im back in love with garmin