The wire for the left heated grip was pulled lose when I bought the bike last summer. With winter coming I would like to fix it. ButI don't know where the wire connects. The Clymer manual doesn't show me anything.
Oliver
2004 R1150r
Heated left grip
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Heated left grip
Oliver
1994 BMW R1150r
1974 Yamaha RD 350
1963 Bultaco Sherpa
1994 BMW R1150r
1974 Yamaha RD 350
1963 Bultaco Sherpa
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Re: Heated left grip
Hi Oliver - I've only just seen your post.
I did the entertaining Heated Grips Paso Doble earlier this year when neither of the ones on the 04 Rockster that I'd just bought would work.
It's a really varied and spectacular way of spending three hours trying to find out how to restore the facility of toastie digits on a cold morning. It goes like this:-
Lift the fuel tank and pull it back. So that's an hour of a job, isn't it ? Thirteen screws, four pipe unions, five if it's a GS and then an electrical plug&socket. And that's after various Tupperware removal quick-steps. Good old BMW - "Bikes Made Weird". Same routine is needed if ever you want to take a gander at the battery for any way-out and extremely rare reason, like for instance having to buy and install a new one. How fantastically far-fetched is that possibility ?
Now look at the white four-way plastic shrouded socket that's snuggling in among all the other wiring interfaces strapped down to the frame-spine behind the headstock, all normally hidden by the fuel tank. The four connections in there are the pair to one HG element under the handlebar rubber, and another pair to the other HG.
On the handlebar, the heater wires go INSIDE the hollow bar and emerge through a hole in the underside part of the bar in the middle, where the triple-tree is. From here, a wire containing one pair of feeds goes down each side of the front nose of the tank down to the white plastic 4-way mentioned above, so as to get the required 12 Volts, which is switched by the wiring arrangement inside the right-hand bar-end 3-way heat-control switch - off, high, low. BMW clearly decided that there might be some hot-handed riders who'd actually prefer a LOW amount of heat in the grip. Who are these people ?
For detailed step-by-step guides, see the various vids on the Toob, especially from the redoubtable Chris Harris in Manchester, New Hampshire.
In the event, after a day of p*ssing about pulling the switch apart, peeling back rubbers, peering at wiring diagrams thoughtfully sent to me by various forum members, searching for assorted wiring colours and routes, I discovered that each cable emerging from the centre of my Rockster handlebar had been simply lobbed-off by some orang-utan with a pair of cutters in its mitt, and the spare lengths carefully folded together and zip-tied out-of sight.
So that marked the final flourish of my Heated Grips Paso Doble.
"Strictly" speaking, I don't plan ever to ride in cold weather.
I did the entertaining Heated Grips Paso Doble earlier this year when neither of the ones on the 04 Rockster that I'd just bought would work.
It's a really varied and spectacular way of spending three hours trying to find out how to restore the facility of toastie digits on a cold morning. It goes like this:-
Lift the fuel tank and pull it back. So that's an hour of a job, isn't it ? Thirteen screws, four pipe unions, five if it's a GS and then an electrical plug&socket. And that's after various Tupperware removal quick-steps. Good old BMW - "Bikes Made Weird". Same routine is needed if ever you want to take a gander at the battery for any way-out and extremely rare reason, like for instance having to buy and install a new one. How fantastically far-fetched is that possibility ?
Now look at the white four-way plastic shrouded socket that's snuggling in among all the other wiring interfaces strapped down to the frame-spine behind the headstock, all normally hidden by the fuel tank. The four connections in there are the pair to one HG element under the handlebar rubber, and another pair to the other HG.
On the handlebar, the heater wires go INSIDE the hollow bar and emerge through a hole in the underside part of the bar in the middle, where the triple-tree is. From here, a wire containing one pair of feeds goes down each side of the front nose of the tank down to the white plastic 4-way mentioned above, so as to get the required 12 Volts, which is switched by the wiring arrangement inside the right-hand bar-end 3-way heat-control switch - off, high, low. BMW clearly decided that there might be some hot-handed riders who'd actually prefer a LOW amount of heat in the grip. Who are these people ?
For detailed step-by-step guides, see the various vids on the Toob, especially from the redoubtable Chris Harris in Manchester, New Hampshire.
In the event, after a day of p*ssing about pulling the switch apart, peeling back rubbers, peering at wiring diagrams thoughtfully sent to me by various forum members, searching for assorted wiring colours and routes, I discovered that each cable emerging from the centre of my Rockster handlebar had been simply lobbed-off by some orang-utan with a pair of cutters in its mitt, and the spare lengths carefully folded together and zip-tied out-of sight.
So that marked the final flourish of my Heated Grips Paso Doble.
"Strictly" speaking, I don't plan ever to ride in cold weather.
This is the list of people I'd trust with my bike
Re: Heated left grip
Great post. I learned something new and laughed out loud.
Holland Ja, San Francisco
‘02 R1150R black
‘02 R1150R black