Hi, can anyone advise on the best location to fit one of these horns on the Monster 1200 and the best route to run the wiring and relay required? This is one of a series of mods I’m planning to improve the usability of this bike as urban transport and a fun machine. Thanks in advance
@comfysofa fitted one to his HyperMotard, it’ll be a similar layout, iirc there’s a thread in here sbout it, search for that. edit: here you go https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/denali-soundbomb.64940/
Cheers West Cork Paul, Exactly what I was looking for. My folks are from your part of the world; Bantry and Mitchelstown to be precise. I would love to get over there and ride around the coast when all this is over.
Small world. We live in Schull and Mrs P comes from Kilfinane, about 20 mins from Mitchelstown. Once the panicdemic has passed (if ever ) please check out www.swi500.ie
I will send a picture of where I mounted sound bombs on my 1200. Fit the relay so you can use the OEM horn and earth supply to trigger the relay. run a fused supply from the battery if I remember 5 amps per horn should be about right. Undo the tank clamps lift the tank just enough to run the cable along the frame, cable tie in place. and run the supply to the relay switched terminal, then from the relay to the horn/s and then to earth. be careful when lifting the tank not to pull on pipes or leads connected to the tank. The horns are loud, sounds like a truck.
Thanks for the link Paul, I've driven around a lot of the bays and peninsulas and vowed that I will come back and do it on a bike.
Hi hypermotbloke, That's great, many thanks. I pulled the Stebel Nautilus off the Aprilia today and pondered where it could go on the Monster before I ran out of time. I'm planning on using the loom that came with it that includes the relay and fuse. the battery looks like a pig to get to on this bike and I'm hoping I can couple the wiring to something existing coming from the battery. I'm looking forward to getting rid of the polite meep meep and getting something closer to the foghorn that I am used to!
Thanks, that’s great. Images are always helpful in this situation, much better than descriptions. That looks like one of the only spaces available to fit these in, and you have got two in that space. Did you need to fabricate a bracket or did one of the standard bar pieces work? I see you’ve got the fender extender as well which is the other practical upgrade on my list.
Yes I made a bracket, it took a bit of working out. But not difficult. I suppose being a mechanical engineer helps! Horns pointing down to allow water to drain out. If fitting the extender, remove the fender and use screws with locknuts and sit it on a bed of clear silicon. The double sided tape supplied does not work, it will fall off.
Extender cheap simple mod. Keeps the crap off the motor and the paint on. Button head stainless M4 screws with stainless nyloc nuts and washers look neater.
Thanks for the image. I really don't know why Ducati and other manufacturers make the front mudguards so short when you have a large expensive radiator and an oil cooler directly in the path of all the crud that's flung up from the road. I've got a tail tidy fitted on mine and the rear hugger seems purely ornamental, so I need to fit an extender on that also. Form does seem to have trumped function on these modern Monsters.
i have a soundbomb but also a US market monster [1100]. the US bikes have a charcoal canister under a shortened cover on the left side of the radiator. i ditched the canister which created a perfectly soundbomb sized space. needed some brackets making but as its hidden they didn't need to be pretty. only the horn pokes out the bottom of the cover.
