Migsel mount with Tomtom Rider II
Morning,
On the subject of Migsel mounts when used with the Rider II, I've run into a little problem. The mounting holes on the TTR2 bracket and the Migsel mount (
articulated type) are the same pattern, but both are blind holes. That's to say you can only put the screws into the Migsel mount from the front, and into the TTR2 mount from the back. In other words, when you hold the two up to each other in the position you want to mount them, no holes are exposed.
When I first got my Tomtom a few months back I worked around the problem by prising the platic Tomtom mount apart and drilling out the 4 corner mounting holes from the front, thus allowing me to fix it to the Migsel mount in a reasonably tidy way. This wasn't easy though since the Tomtom mount isn't designed to be taken apart and took a certain amount of butchering. Let's just say that you wouldn't get away with doing it too many times before it just gives up and falls apart on you.
The problem now is that the Tomtom had developed a fault and was no longer charging on the bike. I suspect that the cradle isn't the problem since there was 5V present on two of the pins, indicating that the 12V to 5V converter inside was OK, but Tomtom's predictable response was
Send the whole thing back and we'll look at it.
I rather suspect though that they'll not waste the time in actually looking at it, and just send me a new GPS together with the mount. (And hopefully a new RAM mount too, even though I'd not returned that requested part on account of having given it to a friend with a Rider I)
Anyway, what I'm getting at is that I think I need to modify the Migsel mount so as to have the holes drilled all the way through, allowing me to put the screws in from the back and not have to butcher another Tomtom mount. This will be tricky though, since the arm which connects the two Migsel plates is directly in front of where I need to put the screws, which means I'll have to drill a shouldered hole allowing the screws to be counter-sunk.
I can't do this myself but luckily there's a local engineering shop that may well be able to help. Once I've done this I wonder if this work would be of use to the GS community, or maybe to Migsel himself? The hard part of such a job is usually tooling up the machines, so once we've done one it would be comparatively easy to run through a whole batch. Either way something needs to be done; the Tomtom wasn't cheap and neither was the Migsel mount, and to have to go to an engineering shop to make these two expensive parts work together would put a lot of people off.
Any thoughts?
Mup.
Can anyone out there tell me exactly which parts I need to mount my TT rider in the central field of vision. The info i've managed to glean up to now for the required parts is the migsel mount which fits round and above the speedo, a ram arm (not too long in case of vibration) and a triangular mount which connects to the TT rider mount (perhaps). 
