Touratech Compact Roadbookholder

(RIP) Sugar Ray · May 15, 2005

Has anyone got a photo of the TT compact roadbookholder fitted to a GS, preferably alongside a GPS unit? (not asking for much, am I

) I quite like the idea of having the basics of my route in writing to use alongside my 2610, and as I don't use a tankbag, this seems like a good, if expensive, option.

Regards,

Charles

Noddy · May 15, 2005

Charles, you have just made my day.

:popcorn

TERRY RYAN · May 15, 2005

Migsel from the Eurotrash section uses this setup I fink email him and ask him if he is not in his crap thingy

MasterDabber · May 15, 2005

Sugar Ray said:
Has anyone got a photo of the TT compact roadbookholder fitted to a GS, preferably alongside a GPS unit? (not asking for much, am I ) I quite like the idea of having the basics of my route in writing to use alongside my 2610, and as I don't use a tankbag, this seems like a good, if expensive, option.

Regards,

Charles

SR. I can post you one tomorrow... need to take the photo first.
It isn't with any GPS unit fitted though (I don't have one

).
Is that any good. I made up my own bracket to mount it... the fitting supplied by TT was useless.
I copied my bracket from Uncle Albert.

Let me know if that will help and I'll try and post something on Monday...

Derek

(RIP) Sugar Ray · May 16, 2005

Derek - that would be great - what I really want to establish is how much of the instrument panel will be blocked out - so a riders-eye view would be especially useful.
Noddy - glad to have been of service, but I'm not quite sure why?

Regards,

Charles

MasterDabber · May 16, 2005

OK SR.. as promised here are the photos.
Sorry about the lack of GPS

First one... riders eye view. Fitted to crossbar using homemade bracket

general view from the front...

close up of the homemade bracket

I'm very please with the roadbook holder and as a non-GPS user have found it very useful.

Yes, I know the drive needs sweeping, weeding, pointing etc.

(RIP) Sugar Ray · May 16, 2005

Thanks for the photos. Why were the TT brackets useless? I would have thought it could have fitted straight to the handlebars with a u-shaped bracket, or did that obscure the instruments too much?

Regards,

Charles

MasterDabber · May 16, 2005

Sugar Ray said:
Thanks for the photos. Why were the TT brackets useless? I would have thought it could have fitted straight to the handlebars with a u-shaped bracket, or did that obscure the instruments too much?

Regards,

Charles

Charles. If I'd gone with the original TT fixing it would, for me, have been too low down and obscuring the RID, at the wrong angle and not very easy to read, not very securely attached and prone to swivelling on the cross bar, not very easy to operate the rollers.

You may find it is OK for you, but the only other person I knew who had one was Uncle Albert and I knew he had made up his own bracket for, I think, much the same reasons.
He kindly met me over at SLM waving off Plumb and Pavey on the Dakar so that I could take some photos and do a copy.

Mine is much the same as UA's.

btw. in case it isn't clear from the photos, the holder doesn't get in the way of the instruments at all the way I have it mounted.

HTH
Derek

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