Harley Bagger Audio for South Pasadena

We are not in South Pasadena. AMS Pods is the Harley bagger-audio side of Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From South Pasadena take Fair Oaks Avenue or Huntington Drive to the 110 south, then Avalon — 20.7 miles, thirty-five to forty minutes. Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King, built around the Hertz Neo speaker and a crash-bar bracket that comes with the pods.

South Pasadena is 20.7 miles from the Avalon pin. Fair Oaks Avenue or Huntington Drive toward the 110 south, then Avalon. Thirty-five to forty minutes on a bagger. The alternate is Monterey Road to the 110 south, then Avalon Boulevard. The Arroyo Seco stretch at the top is narrow with short ramps, so the first few miles want attention. Maps pin 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.

South Pasadena is craftsman streets under heavy tree canopy with Mission Street at the centre, and the 110 in its original Arroyo Seco Parkway form running through. That old parkway is a particular kind of loud — narrow lanes, close walls and a hard surface that throws noise back at you rather than letting it dissipate, which is why it sounds worse on a bike than a wider modern freeway at the same speed. Angeles Crest is within reach for a weekend, so the riding here ranges from a shaded residential street to a canyon road on the same tank of fuel.

AMS Pods start at $649 a pair. Chrome or gloss, crash-bar bracket and screws included, built to order in-house, about three weeks. Nothing gets invented beyond $649 a pair — the rest is quoted on your bike at the counter. A full bagger build is usually up to about ten business days in the shop, confirmed in person.

Richard makes them in Carson, in-house since 2003. Hertz Neo goes inside — small neodymium magnet, weatherproof, clear at volume rather than merely loud. Street Glide and Road Glide take a fairing amplifier and a tank pull. On a Road King the pods carry the job and the amplifier lives in a bag on a carpeted board with an AMS quick disconnect. The angle on the crash bar gets set with you sitting on the bike, because reflected parkway noise punishes anything aimed even slightly wrong.

Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King. Harley radios in the shop are Diamond Audio, plus Sony and Soundstream. If the bike lives on a narrow shaded street and rides the parkway daily, the aiming and the quiet-end behaviour are both worth discussing at the counter — they are the two things that decide whether you use the system every day or only on weekends.

Reflected noise on the old parkway does something people find confusing: the system sounds fine on a wide freeway and falls apart on the 110, at the same speed and the same setting. The reason is that hard close walls send road and engine noise back into the same space your music is in, which raises the floor without raising anything you control. You cannot fix that from the volume knob. You fix it by shortening the path so more of the music arrives before the noise has a chance to fill the gap.

Music that holds together on the Arroyo Seco rather than only on open freeway. Aiming set with you on the bike. A quiet setting that respects a shaded residential street at seven in the morning. Weatherproof pods. Nothing showing along the frame. And bags that come off in seconds.

Fair Oaks or Huntington to the 110 south, then Avalon — 20.7 miles, thirty-five to forty minutes. AMS Pods from $649 a pair, chrome or gloss, bracket and screws included, about three weeks built to order. Reflected noise is not a volume problem.

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Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Sunday closed, walk-ins welcome. Pods are about three weeks built to order, so the first visit is a measurement and a conversation. Nick writes the quote, Zack runs the floor. A Payment Plan is available at the counter once the bike is quoted. Google shows 4.8 from 654 reviews.

If your system sounds fine on a wide freeway and falls apart on the Arroyo Seco, that is reflected noise — and the volume knob will not fix it. Call or text (310) 513-8800 and ask for Nick. 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.