rodent042
02-21-2008, 07:01 PM
I recently bought a Gorilla alarm and decided to install it today. After I climbed over my bike about 100 different ways and looked
under every cover and in every crack I concluded that it wasn't going to fit ANYWHERE! The only place I could have gotten away with was inside the glove box and I would have had to cut the door off to make it happen. Besides, sticking it in an enclosed area kind of defeats the purpose, right? :D
The only place it would fit that I could find was just in front of the rear wheel. I just had to figure out how. I didn't want to drill into the frame and tap screws in. I just don't like that kind of thing myself.
1806
So I stood in my garage sifting through junk bins and I remembered that I had bought a sheet of 16 gauge steel awhile back. Here's what I came up with:
1809
I cut the metal with a jigsaw about 3 1/2" wide X 5" tall and used a vise to bend the ends over. I did it all by eye and test fit. Only took about 5 minutes to get it in the shape I wanted.
Here's a simple drawing of the shape
1807
and here it is mounted
1808
I threw a coat of primer on, a few coats of enamel, bolted the alarm in place and secured it with a hose clamp. Easy to install and remove and no modification to anything on the bike to fit it!
I don't see why you couldn't mount just about any horn or alarm this way.
I made this with junk I had laying around but I'd imagine the total cost would be around $10-15 tops.
under every cover and in every crack I concluded that it wasn't going to fit ANYWHERE! The only place I could have gotten away with was inside the glove box and I would have had to cut the door off to make it happen. Besides, sticking it in an enclosed area kind of defeats the purpose, right? :D
The only place it would fit that I could find was just in front of the rear wheel. I just had to figure out how. I didn't want to drill into the frame and tap screws in. I just don't like that kind of thing myself.
1806
So I stood in my garage sifting through junk bins and I remembered that I had bought a sheet of 16 gauge steel awhile back. Here's what I came up with:
1809
I cut the metal with a jigsaw about 3 1/2" wide X 5" tall and used a vise to bend the ends over. I did it all by eye and test fit. Only took about 5 minutes to get it in the shape I wanted.
Here's a simple drawing of the shape
1807
and here it is mounted
1808
I threw a coat of primer on, a few coats of enamel, bolted the alarm in place and secured it with a hose clamp. Easy to install and remove and no modification to anything on the bike to fit it!
I don't see why you couldn't mount just about any horn or alarm this way.
I made this with junk I had laying around but I'd imagine the total cost would be around $10-15 tops.