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I did a couple of videos on mounting a Garmin on my GT300i.

Thanks. I ended up mounting mine more horizontally, on the lower section of the right mirror, whereas you mounted yours more vertically higher up on the right mirror, but it's basically the same concept, and I actually used your Youtube video to give me an idea on how/where to mount mine. (I also have a Garmin cable tied into the fuse box and it exits close to where I mount the GPS so I just plug it right into the back of the GPS (Nuvi 50 LM) whenever I need it.)

I dont know how much more obvious it could have made itself. It means get gas. Ive been tracking my mpg and mine always blinks at roughly 120 mile from fill up. I often get about 65 mpg. Every time I get gas with about 128 miles or so from my last fill up I pump less than 1.9 gallons. The gaugeseems to measure only 2 gallons of its 2.4 gallon tank.

Well...I don't know how obvious it is/was at all. I just got my GT 300i yesterday. I could tell that the dealer hadn't filled it up totally, because there were only 4 bars showing after I turned it on and it was running. Plus, I kept forgetting to have the mode in "ODO" instead of Trip Meter while I was trying to make the military time clock show AM/PM (which was an effort in futility because it ONLY shows in military time), so every time I hit the two buttons together it zeroed out the trip meter. The yellow gas light came on and the first block was blinking, so I stopped to fill up. 1.4 G. OK.

Today I went out riding and by the end of the day the yellow gas light came on and the first block was blinking. (Plus I still kept accidentally messing up/resetting the trip meter back to zero.) I wasn't right near a gas station so I was sweating bullets, going real easy on the throttle and hoping that I'd at least make it up all the hills in case I had to push the bike to a gas station towards the end of my trip.

Well, I got to the gas station, filled it up, and it took 1.65 gallons. So I still had at least 3/4 of a gallon left in the tank. As far as I'm concerned, fuel gauges on scooters are anything BUT obvious. Hopefully the third time will be the charm and I won't mess up the ODO (since I've given up the futile effort to get AM/PM out of a clock that only shows in military time) and I'll be able to get some better idea of what sort of mileage I'm actually getting.

(And speaking of filling up...this system used on the 300 is very odd. On my Yamaha all I have to do is insert the nozzle and wait for it to click off and done. With the 300, the bar that goes across the center prevents me from putting in the nozzle and waiting for it to click off. I have to go real slow with the fuel nozzle and check and check and check and check to make sure it's close to, but not over, that dreaded bar. Great scooter. Fantastic scooter, even. Nothing quite like it out there. But the filling system? Not very good at all.)

Ram makes what you need. The ball has a tang with a hole that works with 8 and 10 mm. I used the 8 mm between the left mirror and its angled mount. The short "dog bone" to the ball adapter to the GPS mount. Did not use the ball adapter on the main mirror mount because the 10 mm threads are recessed.

Karl

Thanks, Karl. That's good to hear. Do you happen to know which specific model RAM mount you used? They have a lot of different versions of their mounts.