Well, the new Dash-shelf on my 1300 is on and (almost) complete. All I'm waiting on now is the TomTom GPS, which is in transit, so I'm told.
The first draft of the shelf was designed and built by Tipsy (thanks Tipsy, I hope you enjoy the Guinness!) and we fitted it to my machine for the ride home. I quickly discovered that it was way too wide front to back and that I couldn't see the Speedo above 80KPH, or the indicators or the fuel gauge. So once home I started fiddling and over a few iterations finally settled on the right size.
I fitted a 4-way cigarette lighter power block in the right-hand glove box for power and at the same time ran a separately fused power feed up to the front for the GME UHF CB Radio. Radio cables and antenna supplied by Dale (many thanks, Dale). I fitted the sexy little antenna to the back, but I'm not entirely happy with the mounting so I'll probably look at that again sometime in the not too distant future.
The most difficult part was figuring out how to get the cables up onto the top of the instrument cluster without cutting or drilling the plastic, and I finally decided on using the left-hand air-duct as a conduit. I removed the plastic cover from the left-hand mirror and, using the trusty straightened coat-hanger, I pulled the cables from under the false tank through the access hole under the cover. I then re-oriented the coat-hanger and shoved it down the air-duct and pulled the cables up whilst feeding the same cables back under the plastic near the mirror. Then I refitted the mirror cover.
Lo and behold, all cables in place, all neat and tidy and invisible, and no holes in the plastic! Success! I then used some spiro-wrap to hold them all together and neaten things up whilst giving some abrasion protection.
I painted the shelf and brackets and twiddled my thumbs until I thought they were dry enough to work with ...WRONG, so I went and painted them again! Once dry I fitted the supports (which incidentally attach to the instrument cluster using the 4 outer holes with overly long replacement screws) to the shelf, and the mount for the UHF and two Ram balls. Then fitted the whole thing to the bike.

Picture of the first fit to the bike.

From the riders perspective.

Radio fitted and powered up first time!

Cable routing through air-duct with Spiro-wrap fitted (Note to self, must tidy that up a bit!!)

Screen refitted and Biologic phone case fitted. Centre RAM ball will be for the TomTom GPS, which has a power lead right below it.

All put back together ready to go ride tomorrow!

Antenna mounted at the back, that was a pain to wire up!

...and the P-To-T fitted under the left-hand grip.

Viewed from the front showing the wiring at the back of the UHF Radio, but difficult to see because of the reflection of the clouds etc.
I have a copy of the modified hardware template which I will be giving to Tipsy at Dugandan, so if anyone wants a shelf for their 1300...see him!
Now all I need to do is practice a little patience whilst waiting for the GPS to get here, once that arrives I'll pair it to the Starcomm and the phone and I'll be in business!!
