Saturday was a busy day for putting stuff on the motorcycle. Finished mounting the new Coocase S48 topcase. Went to Walmart to hunt for wiring supplies and lucked into finding a Slime Power Sport Smart Spair kit. This is much smaller than the kit I had been carrying — the compressor will actually fit under my seat — and it came with a bunch of SAE adapters, an SAE cable, and an SAE terminal.
Installed the SAE terminal. Ran the SAE cable under the gas tank to the under-seat area. Then I sacrificed an SAE adapter to use its connector to power a Fuseblock, which I then wired up to the Coocase to power the alarm / keyless entry / brake light.
May not sound like much but that consumed most of the daylight hours.
Tonight I installed the electrification kit in my new Bags-Connection Daypack II tankbag. Bags-Connection has a really slick line of bags that use a quick-release system that mounts to the ring around the gas cap and keeps the bag off the tank itself, and provides power for electronics within the bag through the mount. I’d already had the mount on my bike from a previous bag that was too big for my bike so this was just installing the corresponding parts on the new bag.
Before I go for my Sunday morning ride I’ll add a 12v cigarette socket to the bag. This will only take a moment thanks to Posi-Lock connectors, which I now believe to be just about the best thing ever.
The bike is now about 75% prepped for my April road trip. I’ve got new 90-degree valve stems on the way so that checking / adjusting the tire pressure isn’t such a pain, I’ll be ordering new tires within the next couple of weeks, and I still have to figure out a better way of powering my GPS and radar detector…
