Under your seat there is a female connection just in front of your battery. I bought a split connection, part number 70264-94A, two sealed socket housing part number 72114-94BK, two secondary locks for the socket housings part number 72154-94 and eight stamped and formed female wire ends part number 72191-94. You only need two of the female wire ends, but since the connectors come with 4 sockets each, that is how they are sold I guess.
The Zumo bike connection has a black (ground) and red (positive) wire on it. The one with the fuse isthe positive. Once you pull the connection out and remove the cover on the end of it, you'll see 4 pins. One has power for the tail lights, one has power when the brake is applied, one has power for the accessary switch and the last on is the ground. You have to figure out which is which. Hook the wires accordingly to the male connectors (72154-94) and plug into the female connection on the bike. It sounds easier then it is. If you're able to troubleshoot electrical connections you won't have a problem, if not, it may be more difficult. Instructions are included with the split connector on how to hook up to an accessory. An other option would be to just hook the black wire to a ground and the red wire to positive side of the battery.
If you want further instructions, I can email you my phone number and I will be happy to help you that way.
Good luck.

 

That is not necessarily true for everybody. I have been using a GPS for years now & I use all the "power user" features.

Although I still love my 2610(the 2610 has some features thatnone on the existingunits have), if I personally where upgrading today I would buy the 2820 as it has some user options I consider important that are missing from the Zumo. The Zumo is more of a dumbed down beginners unit & that's fine for most people, but it's not for everybody.

IMHO, no manufacturer has yet come out with the perfect M/C unit.

~John

 

Not really, the I3 is not waterproof so it is not recommended for M/C use(unless you never get caught in the rain)

I agree that not everybody wants/needs all the features of the rather pricey Zumo but there are other less expensive Garmin options that are waterproof(I recently bought a brand new Garmin 2610 off ebay for $250). The 2610 is fully waterproof & is still one of the all time best NAV units ever made for M/C use.

~John

 

Doesn't come with a motorcycle mounting bracket either, you have to be resourceful. At a $500.00 savings I didn't feel I needed all the features the ZUMO had so I went with the I3. Works well enough but with some of the ZUMO's capabilities that have been outlined in this forum I may have had second thoughts. If you can use the ZUMO in place of a CB and have phone capabilities and access to traffic, that is a plus. Still it's almost impossible to get lost with any of the GPS units.

 

How do you have the unit mounted and connected? IS that the mount that comes with the Zumo? Is it easy to take the unit off? It looks great on the bike.

 

thanks,awsome direction!!

 

I was looking at a new Zumo that a friend got for Christmas & we where trying to set options similar to my Garmin 2610 today(he has borrowed my 2610 & loved it).

I have a few questions for anyone here who is more familiar with the new unit(I only had a few minutes to play with it)

1. How do you get it to display the current time of day on the map screen??

2. How do you turn off the recalculate route feature?? There must be a way to do it(you definitely DO NOT want it enabled 100% of the time)but I can't find the setting like mine has.

3. How do you scroll the map?? On my 2610 you simply click on the screen & drag it to look ahead for instance but that doesn't work on the Zumo & it doesn't have a rocker switch like the older units had for this function.

~John

 

zumo ..still airmail maybe tommorow. read somereviews/opinions and not discurraged. may be too much or not enough but cant wait to use!!!

 

Bump

 

Any Zumo 550 owners get the XM antenna option? If so is it a wire type that plugs into the Zumo or does it attach to the unit?

Thanks