I got tired of fumbling with the garage door opener leaving and going on the bike. So, I decided to just buy an extra one off eBay for $10 and mount it on the bike. If you can solder, this is a pretty dang easy thing to do.

As far as where to put the actual opener, I went with under the seat attached with velcro. As for the $3 radio shack SPST momentary switch, I wanted it to be completely out of the way. I know there are all sorts of ways to do this. I've heard of attaching it to the high beam lights and the bike battery. I just went with the simple approach.



Just solder two wires to the remote's native switch. In my case, I have 3 to choose from.




Nice little hole.


Attached a molex connector so I can easily remove or swap out remotes.


Tidy up with heat shrink.




Well hidden and accessible under the seat.


Switch is at the top right of the gas tank.

Man, that's a sweet set-up, I'm going to go get a new remote and do this one.

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I bought a mini remote for when I ride but never thought of the switch and mounting idea. Ingenious!!

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The only somewhat hard part is finding a place to mount the switch. You want to make sure you have clearance behind any plastics, and in my case it was difficult to tell. Also might want to to keep in the back of your mind heat,water, etc.

True, I need to find a spot suitable for a small switch panel for this and a couple other electrical mods.
I compliment you on the profesional job you did.

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Thanks!

you da man

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yeah i got a key chain remote .. =/

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That's an awesome idea... thank you!!! I'm FINALLY about to tear into mine for some other mods... can do this at the same time... thanks again!

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The wench hears me pull up and she opens the door...

She's trained well...

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Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is like trolling for unprotected hooker nookie in sub-Saharan Africa.

You need to sell that Idea. Perfect for bikes..

It's not all that hard to do and it's not a real novel idea (i've seen similar things done before). Coming up with a universal remote would be the key to selling a kit. I'm more interested in finding out how buellrider trains his wench. Teach me.

I just got mine finished. Freakin' love it. Thanks again for your post!!

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That's pretty cool. I have see that done on another forum where they hooked it up to the headlight. Flip the high beams on, door opens, flip it to low, it closes. or vice versa, depending on how you hook it up.

Usually just keep mine in my jacket.... but with summer coming, I may give one of these a try.

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Well, if you think about it, they have the garage remotes in alot of cars these days, sooner or later they'll figure out that it's an even better idea on bikes!!!

Just saw this (ya, 3 yrs too late. LOL)...but unfortunately the pics are gone.

I really need to do this because it's getting on my nerves having to turn off the bike, open the rear seat to press the button all the time on the remote.

I just wish I could see the pics to see how he wired the switch to the remote. That's the biggest thing I need, I think. Then figure out where to mount the switch so it's not really visable to everyone, but easy to get to.

Then again, I could use the switch that came with my SpeedoHealer (v4)..it's small as hell and already has enough wiring to go under the seats and such! Its for seeing your top speed or rpm (I can't remember which), but I don't think I'll ever really use it for that and it's just sitting in the pkg. LOL I'd just have to take the connector off the end of it and wire it up. Just need to figure out how to wire it to the remote.

Any one else have pics of this idea?

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I am going to be trying this soon...

Garage door opener mod....one of the best yet!!! : Yamaha R1 Forum


You can run it to your bright switch, just tap the brights on and off and bam garage opens.

Theres also a way to do it for your pass light.

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I don't have the pictures but I remember what they looked like pretty vividly. I could make some crude drawings if you want... I was really simple.


I've been meaning to do the pass light thing for ages. Was just thinking about it today.

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Arson & Slejor,

Thanks for the info..ironically I was on R1-forum doing a search and have been looking at all the threads on this.

Only thing I don't like about using the high beam switch is if you decide to use the high beams, that means (even if you're not near home) you have the garage door opener on the whole time. I don't like the idea of that..even though I don't normally use my high beams a bunch, but still.

I wish we had a passing switch/light on the R1 because I would use that in a heartbeat. That isn't something you turn on and keep on. So, I envy you Gixxer owners for that one!

We can hook it to the horn switch, but I don't think my nabors (or fiance) would like it very much of me hitting the horn every night when I get home really late from work.

So, really, I can only use a switch for mine, but I'm going to wire it through the electrical system, so that it can only be used when the key is in and on..at least that's some protection from anyone just triggering it.

But I appreciate the info from you guys. I've got a few posts saved that show how it's done. Looks like you also don't need to jump the switch if you're using a secondary switch.

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Most all garage door openers use a momentary switch. Even if you hold the button down for 5 days, its not sending out a signal unless you let go and press the switch again. Wiring it to your highbeam switch wont be an issue.

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Cool...good to know. I knew they used the switch, but didn't know that it wouldn't stay on if held down. I figured since it's "hard wired" in that it would turn it on and keep it on because you're actually bypassing the switch.

Part of the instructions is to use a jumper to jump across the contacts of the switch so that it's in "always on mode". Would that make a difference of what you're talking about? With the switch being jumped, does that mean anytime power comes down the high beam light and into the remote, does that make it come on and stay on since the switch is jumped or would it react the same as what you stated?

Thanks,
Mat

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So... I finally got off my ass and did this over the weekend. I went the Gixxer way by using the pass switch and it was a piece of cake. Even picked up a soldering iron and learned to use it.

I probably should have taken pictures and done a writeup...

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where did you get your tutorial from?

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I completed mine yesterday as well. I hooked mine up to the horn button, since I never use it anyway. It works perfectly! It's awesome and can only be used when the key is in and on, so no accidental trips by anyone that's not allowed to use it.

Me using the horn button is the same as you guys using the passing light switch.

Arson - All you'd have to do is jumper/short the switch on the PCB with a small piece of wire (or a blob of solder in my case because mine didn't have a switch soldered into the PCB), take your battery out first though (check to see what voltage the battery is) and if your opener uses a 12V battery, then you can just solder leads to the positive and negative battery connections and use that. If you have a 3V system (as I did), I then created a regulator (from parts at Radio Shack for under $7, I think) that drops the voltage from 12V to 3V and wire that in between the wires from your remote and the wires that will go into the bike.

Once you do that, you MAKE SURE to know what is positive and what is negative (you'd be amazed at how many people hook it up backwards and fry the remote and wonder why it doesn't work!) and then you would tap it into your wires that come OUT OF the passing light switch. Make sure positive it to positive and negative to negative. Also, MAKE SURE you use the wires coming OUT FROM the switch. You don't want the hot wires going into the switch or your remote will be activated all the time.

Once you do that, you're good to go.

It's actually pretty easy when you look at it. If it's one of my days off, I could drop by and help build it for you. Just need the parts from Radio Shack and need to know which color wires come out of the switch for the passing light. That should be on your wiring diagram in your shop manual.

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I was originally looking at this thread: Attached a garage door opener to my Pass Light : GSXR.com Forum : Suzuki GSX-R Forums but it was doing more than I needed to do (It powered the remote - I just wanted the switch to act as a button.)

Honestly, I just grabbed some ethernet cable and soldered one end to the pass switch and one end to the correct contacts on the remote.

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