u/Kris_P_Beykon

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Adventure Navigation Tower

I consider this more of an 'Adventure Tower' as it's more of a low-profile arrangement that provides room for a phone or nav screen, and still rideable in traffic from a seated position compared to the taller up-in-your-face Dakar style.

The key difference to anything else I've seen is that this uses the factory headlight fairing assembly so no issues with compliance, expense of other 3rd party headlights or changes to factory wiring harness. This arrangement also relocates the indicators forward so their relative position to the headlight and visibility is retained.

I'm in Australia and we've only ever had the LED headlight version of the CRF300L since it was release in 2021 but from what I gather the halogen headlight looks similar but the mounting is completely different so this wouldn't work for that 300L variant.

I'd previously made a version of the lower dash panel to mount my particular USB power socket I was wanting to mount, and then also made option for switches etc across the bottom for future accessories like heated grips, spot lights etc.

The navigation screen mounted back on the bars wasn't working for me and had tried looking at a few options around mounting it above the speedo display but I was also running the GP Kompozit windscreen. Then I had the thought that if I could relocate the headlight and move the front fairing forward then it would create enough space for a dash area above the speedo. This does mean that my GP Kompozit screen doesn't work on the bike any longer but it wasn't particularly costly and has worked well on the stock bike arrangement as a initial option for the first few thousand km.

It's designed but I still need to make up the windshield for testing, however the rest of the current prototype arrangement has turned out well, and the extra bit of height to the headlight and top of the fairing already provides good protection to the chest and is limited difference to any visibility. The fixed screen protruding up behind the fairing supports the windshield and also gives protection to the nav screen if/when a windshield isn't fitted.

Next step will be to work up the design for the main tower bracket structure in sheet metal pieces and I'm thinking to base it on 1.6mm stainless.

u/Kris_P_Beykon — 4 days ago