Oxford products

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

still not heard form oxford or hotbikebits.com. Oxford refuse to deal with the public over the phone. To add insult to injury the oxford panniers i used once(!) newcaste to manchester (which the raincover ripped open on both, and filled with water- holding it in so the paniers were submerged ruining everything i got for christmas) i've just noticed that even though they were on properly the protective pad wasn't sufficient. Its taken paint off both sides to the bare plastic! bummer. Anyone recommend anyway of respraying this?
not a good week to give up smoking! :P hehe (ive got uni finals too!)

OXFORD ARE PANTS!!! thats it, was going to buy the panniers, even though I have had no luck with the hot grips. Oxford are not having another penny of mine.

Sorry, can't help with the respray issue mate, go n have a fag

Originally Posted by Tomcat

OXFORD ARE PANTS!!! thats it, was going to buy the panniers, even though I have had no luck with the hot grips. Oxford are not having another penny of mine.

I have an Oxford TankBag, that's never let me down yet. yes, it's not waterproof, but I know this, and I don't use the waterproof cover either, I put stuff in plastic bags if I need it to stay dry.

I'm still going to be buying panniers from them at some point.

I just don't trust them with electronics is all.

I have an external 5.25" enclosure with the Oxford 911 chipset, but I'm not very pleased with it's burst rates It seems to be faster over USB 2.0 than Firewire...

















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[northwind]

I didn't trust the waterproof cover to stay on my tailpack, so I put a bungee round it... Oxford say they're tested to 70mph but no higher Still, it's good luggage. I've used others that have been less waterproof with their covers on than my tank and tailpacks are without! Never actually used the panniers, never needed to- that was money well spent.

are you friendly with a hein gericke shop, the guys in leeds have ordered me a new controller even though i didn't buy them there, but i have bought all my other stuff there

so where is the best place to get a new control box?

Originally Posted by hovi5

so where is the best place to get a new control box?

Yours broken already? :P

I made one from bits bought at Maplin.

Originally Posted by Baph

Yours broken already? :P

I made one from bits bought at Maplin.

dont know ?

its no way near as hot as i would like, so i want to try the older dail type(if it will fit )

Originally Posted by hovi5

dont know ?

its no way near as hot as i would like, so i want to try the older dail type(if it will fit )

I have one you could try, but it's knackered

How good are you with a soldering iron and/or tape?

My solution was a 1M mini-potentiometer from maplin, and some wire. Solder the negative to the middle pin on the pot, the positive to one of the outer pins. Connect positive to 12v source on the bike, negative from the pot to one grip's positive. That grips negative to the other grips positive, then that grips negative back to ground. Clear as mud? Works a treat!

[northwind]

Best way would be to remove hte control box entirely, and see if that helps- if it doesn't then no amount of monkeying about with switches, variable resistors etc will do the job.