| Author | Message | ||
     Craiga |
Just a heads up- I don't know if anyone else has f***ed up too but just wanted to pass on a word of caution. Today while removing my rear seat cowl to secure my helmet I took off the rear seat then placed it back down over the battery compartment, while hooking up my helmet I moved the rear seat just right and almost welded it to the battery by hitting the front bracket of the rear seat to the terminals- ZAP!  . Luckily there was no damage. I did not think the bracket was wide enough to hit both = and + but guess I was wrong. | ||
| Froggy |
Does yours not have a plastic guard around the positive terminal? | ||
| Cocobueller |
How do you secure you helmet there, do I have to add something or is it already set up? | ||
| Craiga |
Froggy- I had to "modify" the cover for my tender/aux power. Unfortunately I hit the 1/2" which is exposed. Oops. Coco- There is a alloy hook on the right side of the bike under the passenger cowl/seat. Remove the cowl/seat, take the D-rings of your helmet and hook them onto the alloy hook (your helmet will be shield forward with the "left ear" side up) then replace the cowl/seat and your helmet is secure, well until someone wants it bad enough that they cut the strap! The XB-R tail did not have this hook. | ||
| Zac4mac |
There is a loop of small wire-rope in the toolkit to loop thru your helmet strap and hang on the hanger you describe. Not all toolkits have the loop. Z | ||
| Trafford |
I put a square of car innertube rubber over the whole of the battery when I got the bike as I could see an accident in the making! | ||
| Jdugger |
Yea, I put tape over the + terminal. Even with the guard in place, I've sparked it a few times. | ||
| Ccryder |
I have a triangle piece of 3/16" silicone rubber that fills the opening under my pillion seat just for that reason. Besides, with all the terminal blocks and wires I have back there it's a good idea ;+}  Neil S. | ||
| Anonymous |
On the race bikes I prepped, I cut that cross bar off along with the helmet hook (it damages solo tail race bodywork), and went back to an XB battery (the terminals are reversed). A minor reroute of the cables, and the positive-terminal-next-to-big-metal-part-problem was solved. That and the battery comes out really easy. Alas that's a race bike though. | ||
| Zacks |
Neil, You don't seriously have bungy cords hooked to the terminal strip jumpers there do you!? | ||
| Ccryder |
Of course, why not????????? Actually that pict was to show a mounting point for the GIvi hard bags and I needed a spare hand. I check those terminals and battery terminals once a month. I do find the battery terminals loosen too often. Later Neil S. |
