Help needed with sat nav mounting bracket!
 

Hello folks

I currently have a Garmin Nuvi 250W (slim unit). I have never used it on my bike but it was my intention to take it this year on a planned Euro trip. I know it isn't the ideal unit for a bike as it isn't waterproof etc. but I had thought it might do the job anyway. It comes preloaded with Euro maps so I don't need to worry about downloading from discs etc.

My problem though is finding a way of mounting it to my bike. My bike is a 2003 Triumph Trophy and doesn't have any exposed handlebar section where you can simply clamp something to it.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how I could adapt it? I think you would need to be reasonably familiar with the handlebars of a Trophy to fully understand the problem I am facing. There simply isn't any exposed bar anywhere as it's fully encased in a plastic cover and there is no space around the grips.

Damn, I hate dilemmas!!!!

Chris
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Tank bag
 

How about in your map pocket on your tank bag!!

Yip, definitely an option....I had thought of that.....but I was hoping to find a way to do it and look forward instead of looking down.

But many thanks for the suggestion.

I got one as a promo...nice deal if you can get it.

What I did is mount a flat alum plate using a couple of u bolts and some plastic tubing as a isolator. I then drilled a hole through the center of the ball recess in the plate which hold the nuvi and screwed this to the aluminum plate. Seems to work fine.

I have a KLR and it has a cross bar which made mounting easy. They say that they are not waterproof, I was thinking a zip loc bag may be the thing to keep it dry.