How to: Hard wire a radar detector to your R6

Since my bike was already taken apart from my recent lowside, I decided to go ahead and hardwire a radar detector to my bike since all the wires were easy to get to.

What you'll need:

1. Radar Detector (duh)
2. Velcro (or some way of mounting your radar detector)
3. Wire cutters
4. Tap splices



What to do:

1. Remove the gas tank, seat, and what ever else is in the way. Yeah, removing the gas tank is a pain in the ass, but go ahead and do it anyways.

2. Pick a place to mount your radar detector. I put mine on top of the guage cluster behind my tinted windscreen.


3. Cut off the end of the wire where the cigarette lighter adapter is and junk it. There should be two wires exposed. Mine were red and white. Red is power, white is ground.





4. Find the brown connector on the left side of the frame. The brown wire that goes into it is a 12v power source. I decided to tap into the black wire that's after the brown connector.





5. For the ground wire, a tap splice wasn't needed. I simply found the part of the bike that acts as the ground. As you can see in the picture below, there's a bolt (5/16) that I loosened up, put the ground wire under it, and then tightened it back up again.



That's it. Turn the ignition on the bike and turn on your radar detector.

nice write up






why do you have part of a hose in your bike?

it's a snake

brown snake turn into brown stick.....


nice write up though, i have a radar detector on my bike too, love it

That hose you see is my crankcase breather modification. There's write-up somewhere on here about it, but basicly it takes the AIS system, and instead of sucking clean air out of the airbox, it puts a suction on the crankcase.

Originally Posted by Robb235

That hose you see is my crankcase breather modification. There's write-up somewhere on here about it, but basicly it takes the AIS system, and instead of sucking clean air out of the airbox, it puts a suction on the crankcase.

i totally forgot about that mod. I thought it was like some sort of ghetto rigged ventilation hose coming off the transmission

sounds pretty good to me

this should work with a GPS as well correct?

^yeah


the thing i noticed here is that he hardwired it in. I would have hard wired the cigarrete light female end in , so the unit will be removeable down the line

i have a passport x50 in my car. how would you even hear the detector when your riding though?