Originally Posted by RobbieTunes

+1 with Doo...non-technical bike zen advice: Try stuff.

Sometimes, not knowing any better can have good results, so give it a whirl. You'll end up with things that worked, and things that didn't, and you can focus on the latter.

Most compatibility advice comes from manufacturer specs and from people (us) who tried something and failed and found out why. I'd bet most of us have tried stuff on bikes and found some things that worked when they weren't supposed to, maybe not perfectly, but they worked, and I''m sure the flip side of that, too.

mrmw's tourer is a fine example of making things work. I'll bet he's got several "issues" that were not supposed to work, but he simply went forward with the intention to make everything work, figured out the problems, and worked on those.