where do or what is your main speed type? 50-60mph most 70+

Just me bros came home from england and says middle lane on motorway is 80mph stuff (as he is like a sheep and always follows what everone else does). As most roads in england always seem to lead to a motorway just at those speed yes there are alot of vibes on the XT or any supermoto bike at that, but ride to national speed limits and i dont find them that bad.

As for the connection system on your gps they give you i can understand why it breaks, there are no dampers in the system. It just bolts straight to your handle bars with no rubbers. Ask any engineer to look at it and say its breaking cause of vibs they should be able to point this out to some office person who hasnt a clue how to design something for a motorbike as they have just taken if straight from a car type connection and replace a sucker with a clamp..

techy part, force or energy is never lost it is transfered. Now your handle bars vibing have 3 main forces, kintec (movement), sound, wind(caused by vibes) when you bolt something onto the vibing part directly it will just continue this process onwards to the fixed part, still producing the same or possabily even more vibes due to length of fixing. Unless damped out by rubbers (which cause the vibs to turn to friction, which in turn goes to heat) this vibing will kill any electrical piece of kit as electrics dont like mass vibs because of all the small electric componets etc.

The Garmin 550 sat nav is designed for a motorcycle and nobody has had one crack up on them like mine has IN THE WORLD (according to info from Garmin UK).

The ball mount is supposed to eliminate vibration but not on my bike. I've now got a Touratec holder for my sat nav and even that makes no difference. The Garmin is mounted on my rubber mounted handle bars but vibrations still get through.

The XT660 is a very viby bike. There is no question about that for sure.

See what did i tell you:digging:

That is mystery to me. I have been using the TomTom Rider now for over a year something like 15 months, what with my bike being as vibey as any other xt and the front wheel busier than a bunny wabbit on viagra... the tomtom is still working as normal. bigwink

..........apart from the power lead working loose on the TomTom Rider due to vibrations.

I've seen comments on both sat navs on various forums. Lots of people have problems with their Garmin but what I was trying to explain was people have problems even on their BMW's but the XT absolutely kills the Garmin Zumo. No other bike has done this to a Zumo.

I've also seen comments on here stating that their bikes shed bolts like leaves in Autumn due to vibrations. There is no getting away with the fact that the XT engine vibrates a hell of a lot. It's bound to considering it has a piston with the girth of a 2L coke bottle.

If anybody tells me their XT doesn't vibrate then it goes in one ear and out the other cos I know, I've got one.

How do you hear " take the next right " with your helmet on bigwink

Bluetooth earpieces:what:

I use some of these linked to a bluetooth device.

http://www.pjbox.co.uk/pics/microbuds.jpg

Manic i understand that the XT vibes alot, but as you said before the ball of the GPS mount is suppose to take the vibration out, but is not due to your GPS not working alot of the time, therefore this is a design fault. Garmin are taking the piss that this is the only probelm they have heard of. Whats happening is a boss of Garmin has seen it and has 2 options do we recall all the Garmin GPS units like yours and risk having a very big bill to pay or take the few people in the world that this is happening to and complain to them they its the only one we have heard about and replace a small number of units. End of the day its all about cost, and the road Garmin are going down is the cheaper option.

Why do you think triumph bonnevilles still have the same old spokes that break so many times? Same idea they cant admight to getting it wrong so triumph are getting around the idea by saying people are not doing the maintenance on them. But read through a manual and it says you are suppose to check every spoke before a ride (eh dont think so) but there is a few people who said they check there spokes before every big ride (30+) and they still had problems.

as for a different subject what make are those ear phones, i have been looking a set like these for a while but only seem to be able to find the expensive ones at �80+ Any links please:023:

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Went to my local Yamaha dealer today to tempt myself for early new year. They have loads of 07 models in all colours. Had a real good look at the blue with gold wheels version in particular. Overall I have to say its a nice piece of kit but I did notice one thing that really is poor compared to the earlier versions which is the headlight plastic hardly covers the clocks and instrument panel. Other than that very nice. The dealer was selling em at full whack with no discount (�4899)!