Loads of questions

[Toddy]

Hello, Wonder if I can ask for some ideas?

Just bought a stunning red '03 R1100S and am wondering where best to buy the following;

Oil Cooler Grill
I've found one at Wunderlich but at £92 it's a joke. Any other source?

Power socket
I see BMW in the US have them at $49 and am wondering if anyone sells them here?

Clear indicator lenses, any ideas?

And I need to mount a 1" Ram ball to take a Garmin GPS. Any ideas on what Ram bit to buy and where to mount it? The US RAM site suggests a RAM-B-252U but I'm stuck for a location for it.

Thanks, Dave

[herrman]

Hi Dave & welcome to the group,
Not sure where yo will find a grill allthough some have made there own but Motorworks and Nippy Normans should be able to supply most other bits you require.

Regards Peter.

[oyster]

Oil cooler grille; expanded aluminium mesh, cut to fit, sprayed black. Cost, about £1.00. I read someone in Germany bought a mesh bicycle shopping basket for about 5 Euro and chopped it to fit. Look around in the company office, lots of ideas to convert items there!

[madman]

Power socket from the local BMW stealer for not much money and fits no problem.
Clear lenses Motorworks or Motobins, but you need orange bulbs too.

[Ade B]

BMW power socket relatively lots of money..

http://www.wunderlich.co.uk/erol.html#6 ... co.uk%252F

look on the above site under electrical accessories - just as good and a quarter of the cost.

Ade.

[Toddy]

Thanks folks for your help.

Thought I'd cracked it by finding HORNIG at

http://www.motorradzubehoer-hornig.de/? ... b5ae23af8e

and ordered;

Carbon dash pad, Oil cooler grill, Keyholder, Extra plug, Paint protector on a good web site but had to call a halt when they invoiced me 40 euros for delivery..........................am trying to negotiate.

Wonder if anyone in the UK stocks this stuff.

Dave

[ianc53]

Andrew S sourced oil cooler grilles from the US, they were nothing like as expensive as the Wunderlich one . I'm sure he'll be along in a while with details.
I made something similar when I had a 955i Daytona from the mesh you get from Halfords for glass fibre repair - £2 a sheet.


Cheers

Ian

[Toddy]

My fault, I'd entered the wrong country and the carriage charge is now only 12.93 euro.

Dave

Good stuff Hornig

[andrew s]

Hi Toddy,

Well Ian was right, I have come along, but with bad news as the grill I sourced in the US is no longer made by the seller.

Andrew

[Nero]

Toddy,
As Oyster says:

Oil cooler grille; expanded aluminium mesh, cut to fit, sprayed black. Cost, about £1.00.

Bought the expanded mesh from the local DIY merchants, except I didn't spray black!:



Nero

[Toddy]

Hornig only took a week to deliver everything although I did get the BMW socket as it has a point to connect the wiring already on the bike and a nice wee bracket to attach it. You were right about the Oil Coller Grill from B & Q as it is so simple. Thanks for your help!!

Dave

[tripe]

used a ram ball attached to a clamp that I attached to the ignition barrel. Came from "gps warehouse". Have used it for 18 months now and am happy. I did wrap some duct tape arond the clamp brackets before attaching to hold it more snugly. If you search the posts you should find the pic that I posted,

Henry

[wilf]

Got my Garmin mounted to a ram-ball fitted to a replacement clutch cover
from CycleGadgets.com in the States. Cost $85 plus the shipping and took about 2 minutes to fit, used with a short arm it works for me. One slight downside is that it just brushes the inside of the screen on full right lock, that's with the high bar/screen combo on my bike.
There's some photos of this setup on here somewhere as well, 'cos that's were I got the idea from.

shaun

[tripe]

here is the link

http://www.gpsw.co.uk/cats/cl2_99.html