Great way to mount GPS on Norge...

[PJPR01]

Looks really nice.  Now, where did you get the tank bra?

Thanks! 

Here's the link to the guy I bought my tank bra from...and only one note on this.  The front "wings" of the tank bra didn't come with straps, so tucked them under the front body panels by removing the screws and gently pulling out the body molding, tucking in the tank bra, and then screwing the panel back in, so it holds in about 2 inches of bra material...no wind flapping!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Moto-Guzzi-Norge-1200-Top-Sellerie-Gas-Tank-Cover-Bra-Choose-Colors-/271216566494?hash=item3f25c460de&vxp=mtr

[kirb]

Nope. Many tablets run 2.5 amps or better and who knows where that thin wire MG put there for the GPS draws from, I don't trust it. I just ran the dual DC sockets up front that can run 10 amps each although I fused for 10 amps total. You could run a single and just put in one of those 3.1 amp x 2 or x3 power socket USB adapters. They fit nearly flush to the SC socket so they are low profile. Then you have plenty of power to run just about anything you want (running new wire from under the seat of course).

That is 2.5A at 5V...not 12V. The 12V is lower, I would guess half with the losses in the converter.

The standard MG wiring is more than up to the task.

[canuguzzi]

That is 2.5A at 5V...not 12V. The 12V is lower, I would guess half with the losses in the converter.

The standard MG wiring is more than up to the task.

Yup, Kiwi Roy clued me in.

I do run a 1200-1500 lumen LED under the fairing nose and for that I just feel better having run new wire for it, all fused separately from the wiring harness. I have the bike cam, the fog lamp and also power the tablet and sometimes charge up the cell phone at the same time so having a margin of dedicated wire going up front just seemed a good idea. I'll be adding yet another cam for rear view.

Also, there is a lithium battery on an isolator and low voltage disconnect and that means it can't make the jump back into the bike's wiring or bad things will happen.

[jdgretz]

I pulled the cover on the '07 Norge and used a stem mount from RAM to hold the GPS in more or less the same position as Guzzi intended.  I have long since gone from the original TomTom Rider to a Garmin 660, but it's still in the same place.  Since I have the GPS connected via Blue Tooth to the Sena SMH-10 for audio (directions and music), it is seldom that I need to actually look at the GPS for directions.





jdg

[HDGoose]

Tablets? GPS? I remember using paper maps that would get wet and dissolve and we'd have to fight our way out of the remote areas we were lost in.

[PJPR01]

Tablets? GPS? I remember using paper maps that would get wet and dissolve and we'd have to fight our way out of the remote areas we were lost in.

Sounds like a perfect segue to The 4 Yorkshiremen from Monty Python...

We used to live in a brown paper bag, in the middle of the road, eat a lump of dry poison for breakfast, our parents would jump up and down on us, stab us with a knife and go off to work...and we were LUCKY!!  But...you can't tell the youth of that today, oh no...they won't believe you!  :)