It’s been a year and a couple months since I bought my nicely used R1150RT, and I’ve only managed to put about four thousand miles on it in that time. That includes two decent road trips and a bunch of commuting. Often when I ride it, I notice the little radio antenna wobbling along next to the windscreen and think, “I should get a radio for this.” I looked in to the BMW OEM radio when I bought the bike, but it’s expensive, on the order of $1000, and seems to be some trouble to hook up.
I’d really rather just have a radio that could take mp3’s on some kind of flash media, have an ipod/aux input, and have a weatherproof remote control I could mount somewhere handy. I’ve found several references to the wiring harness on the bike closely matching the adapters for a 2001 Z3, with just a little bit of filing required to get the connectors to mate.
Something like the Sony DSX-S100 might do the trick, though I’d prefer a wired remote control to an infrared one.