• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

COOOOL Trailtech GPS in stock at Motosportz...

So what batteries does it take and what would you say duration is? I am thinking of one for my wr300(could I hard wire it somewhere). I have an awesome garmin hxc now. Problem is I have tried several different mounts and cases and they are all cumbersome and or awkward as heck. I love the idea of this thing
 
firecrotch said:
So what batteries does it take and what would you say duration is? I am thinking of one for my wr300(could I hard wire it somewhere). I have an awesome garmin hxc now. Problem is I have tried several different mounts and cases and they are all cumbersome and or awkward as heck. I love the idea of this thing
Click to expand...

Runs off a internal bat or wired up. i would wire it up. Will be installing one shortly on my TE511 so i will let you know the details here.

And i was just out at Trailtech and Geoff (the owner) showed me the prototype guard / mount for it available shortly. It is a really nice part and allows you to screw down the guard and then drop int he GPS with windows for the micro SD card and such so no removing it. remote antenna coming soon as well. Shot a quick cell pic of the guard...

as you can see has cool little recessions for the controls.

1188802566_39XZ5-M.jpg
 
HUSKYnXJnWI said:
I have the Vector from trailtech with remote switch. Does the Voyager also have an adjustable trip meter? I was just browsing their site and it doesn't appear to: I know for most it would be redundant.. but?
Click to expand...
oldman.gif
Does the Voyager also have an adjustable trip meter?
 
Just what I have been looking for, for quite a while now....an "all-in-one" unit....
applause.gif


Have downloaded and "digested" the user manual, and have to say that I am quite impressed with the units functionality. My only suggestion would be that they possibly include a Maintenance function in the menu....(perhaps you could pass this request onto them please Kelly.)

Just placed an order for a "Voyager" for my TE250 via the Motosportz site....
thumbsup.gif


I currenty have a draw full of Magellan GPS units...If the "Voyager" works as described they will soon be on eBay..
biggrin.gif
 
Well, I bit the bullet and purchased a TrailTech Voyager from Motosportz....Thanks Kelly:thumbsup:

My son Scott called around this morning and we had it fully installed in around an hour or so.

All very straight forward, just a matter of connecting up the power from the battery, install the new speedo sender cable, fit the temperature sender in the water outlet line, and then take a few turns around the spark plug lead for the ignition sender.

Only thing left to do was to figure out the circumference of the front wheel for accurate speed and odometer readings.

Then it was just a matter of keying in the accumulated odometer reading and total hours from the original speedo.

Turned it on, and it locked onto a swag of satellites almost in a blink of an eye....

Programmed in the engine tachometer to one of the customisable "User" menu's and fired up the bike......Pleased to say that everything worked as advertised. This is a very professional unit that appears to be built to take the hard knocks associated with trailriding. It replaces my original speedo and adds a wealth of functionality, including, believe it or not, a fully functioning GPS. (The only downside, if you could call it that, is the inability to load maps.)

The unit is aimed directly at trailriders, with the ability to load in 300 Trails, 300 Routes and 300 Waypoints. The trails are in .gpx format so trails are easily exchanged with users of most brands of GPS. They also have the ability to be viewed on Google Earth.

The unit can be upgraded via software, with the manufacturer promising plenty of future enhancements and new features including a lap timing function that will be linked into the gps...

Some suggested enhancements that I would consider improve the Voyager, would be to include maintenance intervals and the ability for the temperature sender to switch a fan. Also a substantial anchor point for attaching a security lanyard would be appreciated.

I have taken the precaution of mounting mine behind the bars to protect it. Hoping to get out on the trails tomorrow and see how it performs....:)

Voyager2.png Voyager3.png Voyager1.png
 
Looks good mate
thumbsup.gif
, it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Just one question, dose it have a background light for riding at night?
 
ozzie said:
Looks good mate:thumbsup:, it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Just one question, dose it have a background light for riding at night?
Click to expand...

Yes it does.....

Assuming that you have the unit mounted on the bike and powered from the bikes battery

In the Utility menu under Power Settings you have the ability to set the Backlight > Timeout (External Battery) to "Always On"..
thumbsup.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top