Harley Bagger Audio for West Hollywood

We are not in West Hollywood. AMS Pods is the Harley bagger-audio side of Audio MotorSports, 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745. From WeHo take Sunset or Santa Monica Boulevard to the 405 south, then Avalon — 18.8 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.

West Hollywood is 18.8 miles from the Avalon pin. Sunset Boulevard or Santa Monica Boulevard toward the 405 south, then Avalon — or the 10 east toward the 110 and Avalon corridor. Thirty-five to forty minutes on a bagger. The alternate is La Cienega south to the 10 or 405, then Avalon Boulevard. Maps pin 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.

West Hollywood is the densest city in the county and there are almost no garages in it. Bikes live on permit streets, in shared podium parking, or wedged into a space that took twenty minutes to find. The riding is Sunset and Mulholland at the top and the coast beyond that, so a bagger here does tight canyon work on the ridge road and then open coastal running, and parks somewhere completely exposed in between. Very few cities ask for all three at once.

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 of a build is quoted on your bike at the counter. A full bagger build is usually up to about ten business days in the shop.

Richard makes them in Carson, in-house since 2003 and in the trade since 1998. Hertz Neo goes inside — small neodymium magnet, weatherproof, clear at volume. 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. Connections get soldered and sealed, because a bike that never sees a garage is exposed every night whether or not it saw the coast that day.

Street Glide, Road Glide and Road King. Harley radios in the shop are Diamond Audio, plus Sony and Soundstream. Mulholland is the road that decides the setup here — it is slow, technical and quiet enough that a system tuned for freeway use is intrusive on it, which is a real consideration on a ridge road where sound carries a long way down both sides.

Riders who do Mulholland regularly often abandon audio altogether because everything they have tried was either inaudible in the helmet or embarrassing on the ridge. Those two failures have the same cause: a source too far from the ear needs a high output to reach you, and high output on a quiet road at forty miles an hour goes everywhere. Shortening the path fixes both ends of that at once, which is why it is the only change that actually resolves the complaint rather than trading one version of it for the other.

A system that is audible in the helmet on Mulholland without broadcasting down the hillside. Soldered, sealed connections for a bike that never sleeps indoors. Weatherproof pods. Nothing showing along the frame. Bags that come off in seconds. And a finish chosen knowing the bike lives on a permit street.

Sunset or Santa Monica Boulevard to the 405 south, then Avalon — 18.8 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. One change fixes both failures.

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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 rather than an install. 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 Mulholland has made you give up on bagger audio, inaudible in the helmet and too loud on the ridge are the same problem. Call or text (310) 513-8800 and ask for Nick. 22025 S Avalon Blvd Ste A, CA 90745.