On Saturday January 12, 2019 the Long Island BMW riders club hosted a Hex Microsystems ezCAN technology session to explain what it is, why you need it, how to use it and how not to burn your BMW down to the ground by mis-wiring something.

It was an active session starting with a description of what a CAN bus is, why do our motorcycles have them and what you should NOT do on a CAN bus motorcycle.  There were many questions around this and all involved learned about the technology that is in our new BMW motorcycles.

After learning what the heck a CAN bus is and what the heck it does for us we dove right into the ezCAN itself to figure out exactly what we should be doing and why.  We described all the wires of the ezCAN and the settings.  We also discussed why the wires and settings made sense (or didn’t) for our uses.

We had a great lunch of pizza, pasta, salad and other Italian treats thanks to those who brought them!

After understanding the ezCAN system (and eating) we hooked it up to our fearless presidents K1600!  He had a lot of faith that we would not hurt anything on his prized possession.  I had previously run the wiring from the fog lamps back to the area we were going to plug the ezCAN in and I simply connected the plugs and the ezCAN to show the lights in action!  We configured the ezCAN and the lights for all the great things that the ezCAN can do.  Everything worked as planned.

A vigorous question and answer session then ensued and we finished the day with a group of very happy (and knowledgeable) members, a K1600 with a new ezCAN system installed, and a ton of fun and laughs.

Who is going to suggest, and host, the next one?

You can find the PDF of the slides in the Members Only section of the site!