Here's the unit
Now let me explain the statement above, in this day of wireless everything, radios take the exact opposite route. Thankfully this is going on my fairing so I have a little more room to put this away. As far as connecting goes it is pretty straightforward, connect wire a to wire b. For the power I just tapped off the power wire for the head unit since the Sirius unit requires so little power to run.
Here is the unit installed.
For the most part I just hid the wires under the head unit, the only decent hurdle I faced was finding a place to mount the magnetic antenna. According to the interwebs the antenna needs a metal base to have the best reception and fiberglass fairings aren't very conducive to that. I REALLY didn't want the antenna mounted outside on my bike because I am not a fan of advertising what goodies I have on the bike. At this point I decided to get creative and fabricate my own bracket/mount that would mount inside the fairing. You can see it in the above picture, but here is a better picture of what I did here.
At this point it was just a matter of finishing the wiring and hiding everything and making sure there won't be any obnoxious vibrations due to loose wires (silicon glue at Home Depot works great for this) Not much more to add to this, but I wanted to get this out there since I couldn't find any really decent write ups on Sirius units on bikes. Yeah, I am spoiled and I am OK with that. I also bought some Gerbing wired gloves, but forgot to take pictures. I will try to correct that soon.
