• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Got The Voyager GPS mounted up...

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Will snap some better pix later. Modified the bracket to place it exactly where I wanted, turned out perfect. Loads of features. Learned a lot already, seems pretty simple to use for have such extensive features.

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Drilled the cross bar and tapped it. Cut the mount down...

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lots of goodies to distract me from riding :D

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Already found some trails i have been looking for and will track down this summer. Fun.
 
Used it yesterday, I feel like the information center. Man this thing keeps tons of cool info.

Customized bracket made a real clean and perfect position install...

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Piles of interesting info...

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Check out the temp history (seems to run cool)...

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elevation...

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EZ to transfer your ride info via the mini SD to the PC and check it out...

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Fun stuff.
 
I've never owned a GPS before, and have some basic questions maybe you can help me with.
  1. Should I mount it on my bike and go on an organized DS ride, will it accept Garmin routes?
  2. Is it hard to learn?
  3. Is it hard to wire-up?
  4. Did the bracket come with the GPS?
  5. What did you do to the bracket to fit it onto your bike?
 
That thing is awesome! I run satnav in my van and use it as a heads up speedo. So do you get streetmaps on there too?
 
Runner said:
I've never owned a GPS before, and have some basic questions maybe you can help me with.
  1. Should I mount it on my bike and go on an organized DS ride, will it accept Garmin routes?
  2. Is it hard to learn?
  3. Is it hard to wire-up?
  4. Did the bracket come with the GPS?
  5. What did you do to the bracket to fit it onto your bike?
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1. Yep, will use all stadard formate and uses GPX files which works very well
2. I did not think so, well laid out but there is lots od info. Good instructions. Download the manual and check it out here..
http://www.trailtech.net/voyager_downloads.html
3. Not really, you do need to wire it to the battery, cut the hose and install the temp sensor and some other stuff but you can just run it as is as well
4. No there are two brackets. I modified mine to mount exactly where i wanted it. You will have to fiddle with it as there is so much stuff going on in the handlebar area.
5. Cut the L part down and drilled some holes. Also drilled some holes and tapped them int he top clamp. Not that you have to do all that depending on what you want.

Not going to be super simple on any bike as there are a lot of variables on mounting it.
 
Thanks for the detailed answers. The Voyager GPS looks like the most bike specific GPS I've seen. Looks really great.

I'm thinking of removing the stock Husky trip computer and installing it there. Maybe I can modify the trip computer bracket, maybe make a new one, we'll see.
 
How do the mounting brackets go with the older huskies? eg 09 450 TXC?

This looks brilliant, might have buy myself an Easter present...
 
the brackets are kinda universal. Like anything mounted up there it is going to take some creativity to mount it up[ where you want. I modified the mount and really like the position. the screen on this thing is some new tech and looks great in direct sun light.
 
The Voyager comes stock with a basic mount which includes bar clamps suitable for 7/8" and 1-1/8" size bars. I originally dismissed this method, intending to going for a solid mount attached to the bar clamp similar to the type Kelly has shown in his pics.

Reasoning that I normally prefer to ride tight rainforest singletrack, comprising a reasonable amount of low hanging vines, trees and lantana, I figured it may be wiser to mount the voyager behind the bar pad using one of the stock mounts. The main advantage being that it would be easy to push the Voyager down closer to the tank if necessary....thus keeping it right out of harms way...avoiding scratching the screen and limiting the possiblity of "snagging" the joystick.

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Hey now?
Has anyone ran this unit in tandem with the stock head unit. I mean parallel so they are both working off the front wheel etc. I would like to keep my original head unit on and running along with the Voyager running and recording off the wheel to.
Kelly,
Thanks again for a great deal and I am now reading up on the user/install manual. However, I think you said thats how you are running it on your TE511, no? As we talked, this unit is going on my 09 TE450 and when/if i get rid of the bike in the future I would like to keep the Voyager for my next bike purchase and be able to prove the bikes milage with the stock head unit.
 
Does this device have an hours meter on it ?

The manual makes reverence to these 2 items:

• Engine Acc. Run Time (this is an hours meter?)
• GPS Acc. Run Time

Also, has anyone tried to mount this gps device in a vapor mounting device?
 
PALMER84ONE said:
Hey now?
Has anyone ran this unit in tandem with the stock head unit. I mean parallel so they are both working off the front wheel etc. I would like to keep my original head unit on and running along with the Voyager running and recording off the wheel to.
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Funny I asked the exact same question on Thursday a few threads down . I haven't done it yet because I'm going to order one of the protectors for it but I don't see any reason why you can't, as said I've done it in the past with ICO equipment and had no problems.I believe that there is no draw on the sensor as it funtions somewhat like a reed switch using an inductive sensor I believe, just counting the number of on/off cycles in a given time frame. The only thing I would like to get is another "male sensor connector" with the pins so that it would be easy to move from 1 bike to another. I have the correct connector but not the pins, I usually solder and shrink tube mine when splicing and still retain the connectors for ease of removal.I'm going to top mount mine on the bar top clamp which is differant than the above pictured one, 09 Te510 has a double bar top clamp.
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I was thinking the same thing about having the right connector/pins and roll from there. I am going to make up a couple of test wires to see of it will work.
 
I am running my GPS with the stock computer but realized i am not running the wheels sensor on the GPS just letting the GPS do it's thing.

The GPS and vapor/vector are different sizes and shapes so it will not work in the protector for those, you ahe to use the one they make for it.
 
PALMER84ONE said:
I was thinking the same thing about having the right connector/pins and roll from there. I am going to make up a couple of test wires to see of it will work.
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Ok I looked into this JST connectors underwater/waterproof rated(good stuff) and somewhat propritary. The problem is the cost of the tools required to properly do the connections and the required quantities for purchasing.I guess what i'm saying is it's not cost effective.Sooo be as creative as you can, be that completely changing out the connectors themselves, or doing the find an old or new sensor cable with a good connector end and ......... oh well
 
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