Veypor fitting guide

[northwind]

Just in case anyone else is thinking of fitting one of these wonderful toys, here's photos and a walkthrough.

There's basically only 3 questions you need to answer for yourself- where do you want the speed pickup for the rear wheel, where do you want the actual unit, and how are you going to wire it up.

For the speed pickup, I found that the rear brake disc is perfectly positioned, so I drilled a small pit into the surface of the disc with a 10mm drill bit and then glued the magnet into the hole. You could probably just glue it, but the hole gives extra stability.

I used ordinary gel superglue to attach the pickup on the inside of hte swingarm, as pictured. The advantage of using hte right hand side is that you can put the cable along the back and then follow the rear brake line, hiding the cabling and removing the need for cable ties. This can be made very tidy if you spend a few minutes.



The wiring loom is pretty easy to position, in fact you can't really get it wrong. I put the control box etc in the battery compartment, along with all mannerof other wiring and my Scottoiler reservoir. You'll probably need to remove the plastic fuse holder thing to make this fit easily- no loss, frankly.



You'll be using the white wire to hook up for the tach signal, so you can just cut the yellow wire away entirely if you want to keep things tidy- Veypor recommend the use of the white wire (coil pickup) rather than the yellow (tach pickup) anyway.

Now, here's where I started to screw up, and you can benefit from this! If you choose to take the tach pickup from the front coil, you need to use the self-tapper on the black and red wire, not the other one. It won't hurt it if you do the wrong one, but it won't work. I also took mine from very close to the coil plug and inadvertantly pulled it off the coil- an absolute ******* to sort out with the airbox on. So don't do that. Lastly, don't put the wiring through the tank hinge! It's very neat and tidy, but you'll not be able to take the tank off, as I found out today

If I was repeating the install, I'd use the rear coil instead, it's much easier to access. Alternatively, I'm told that the signal wire that you're tapping actually runs from the CDI box in the tail of the bike, so you could take the red-and-black cable anywhere along its length. Doing it under the tank is probably tidiest, and you'll be in there to install the rest of the wiring anyway.

If you want, you can fit the hot lead into a switched 12V power supply, sidelights maybe? Personally I don't see the need, you'll probably be removing the Veypor whenever you leave the bike anyway and the power drain is negligible. I put my heated grips on a switched hot wire, but for the Veypor I just connected the terminals direct to the battery for simplicity. I may change this, as I've got an awful lot of wires on the battery terminals

Where you put the Veypor unit itself is entirely up to you, but I think you'll be hard pushed to beat where I have it. The RAM-mount is very flexible but very fiddly to place effectively, and you'll have a wire coming out of the Veypor, so it really can't go above the clocks unless you're planning to use the Veypor as your main instrumentation. So here's where I put it...




In any riding position, this doesn't significantly block the clocks- you don't need the bottom half of the tach anyway- and is right where you want it when using or rearing the unit. The wire runs straight down the side of the steering column, so it's very tidy.

The RAM-mount base is attached by a jubilee clip to the front of the lock. The base fits here almost like it was designed that way- slightly off-centre but otherwise incredibly neat. I put the ball-end on top, and put the clip through behind the lock. As you can see, at the moment the wire is just cable-tied on, but I'll tidy this up now- these pics are just for easy viewing.




Setting up the actual device is more a matter of trial and error, really. I believe the correct RPM multiplier is 8, but it may be 6 (don't have the unit to hand) and you'll have to measure your own tyre- my Roadtec was 1774mm IIRC. And that's really all there is to it.

I'll leave whether it's worth doing for another post, I'm not totally sure- it's cool, but not amazing, and the software's still obviously under development- when I got the unit the analysis software was still in beta! Pretty shoddy. But the Veypor OS and the VAS analysis software are under constant upgrade and are getting better every time I look. And it is a damn cool toy.