You can't see it in the pictures but the sheet metal backplane juts out
to form a support for the antenna. The whole thing is solidly held in
place on all sides, and padded in rubber from a recycled KLR inner tube.
Would you believe the voltage regular, which appears to add over $70 to
the price of the RAM mount, only costs $1.98 at Radio Shack?!
Here's a smaller link to the page: HYPERLINK
"
http://tinyurl.com/n74z6"http://tinyurl.com/n74z6
Mike A18
KLR650 tires page:
[
www.standoutnet.com/extras/mike/motorcy ... r650/tires]
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From:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of andykirby1010
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:37 PM
To:
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Garmin GPS mount
Looks nice, I think the Garmin Quest mount is ok for most bikes,
I've done around 10k this year on the ST with it. The shake rattle
and roll of 1,000 miles of gravel plus another 2,500 road miles, the
vibes. from the KLR and the abrasive dust from the gravel road
caused two problems
1. The casing on the Quest was eroded so much so that it is no
longer a good fit and that effected the electrical connections.
2 The antenna was flapping around like a kids kite in a wind tunnel
and that caused some internal problems with it's connections.
The good news is Garmin are replacing the unit with a reconditioned
one, no questions and free of charge

If I take it off road again, for an extended period, I'll probably
invest in the Touratech mount, it supports the antenna and has vibe.
dampening built in. That's because I don't have the time or ability
to build my own. Your mount looks as if it has decent damping built
in but you may want to think about a support for the antenna or an
external antenna and leave the Quest unit down, they can be had for
around $30 and are said to work better than the standard unit.
For the screen I used the 'stick on' screen protectors and it's as
good as new, although the protector itself was 'toast'

Cheers
Andy
PS I've been using a 2610 for the last few days and I think I prefer
the Quest!
-- In HYPERLINK
"mailto:DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com"DSN_KLR650@...,
"Michael Silverstein"
wrote:
>
> The RAM mount for the Quest looked pretty cheesy to me so I
prototyped
> one out of bits and pieces from Home Depot and Radio Shack. So far
I'm
> still running the prototype, which seems to work well enough:
HYPERLINK
> "HYPERLINK
"
http://www.standoutnet.com/extras/mike/ ... /
ww.standout-net.com/extras/-mike/motorcycles-/klr650/GPS/"htt
HYPERLINK "p://w"p://w
> ww.standoutnet.-com/extras/-mike/motorcycles-/klr650/GPS/-HYPERLINK
> "HYPERLINK "http://www.stand"http://www.stand"
>
> Mike A18
> KLR650 tires page:
> [www.standoutnet.-com/extras/-mike/motorcycles-/klr650/tires]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HYPERLINK
"mailto:DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com"DSN_KLR650@...
[mailto:HYPERLINK
"mailto:DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com"DSN_KLR650@...] On
> Behalf Of Andy Kirby
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:22 PM
> To: HYPERLINK
"mailto:DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com"DSN_KLR650@...
> Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Garmin GPS mount
>
>
>
> I used a RAM mount for my Quest in Labrador and the gps came back
pretty
> much destroyed

>
> The antenna on the Quest is very vunerable and it's has a tough
time
> picking up signals since the return. The vibration caused some
issues
> with the power connection as well so I'm looking at upgrading to
the
> Touratech mount in the near future. Probably with a 2610 rather
than the
> Quest as it's antenna is internal.
>
> It was fine on my ST1300 but the combination of the single cylinder
> vibes, rough roads and abrasive gravel dust just about killed the
thing
>

>
> As always YMMV
>
> Andy
>
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