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Message started by Dave on 06/13/14 at 10:49:40

Title: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Dave on 06/13/14 at 10:49:40

Just to let you know you have some options....you don't have to settle for inaccurate speedometers.....or the look of an electronic speedo.

Folks are now starting to make gauges that look like gauges - but are accurate. They are not yet cheap however.

http://www.legendary-motorcycles.com/miscparts.html

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by shorty on 06/13/14 at 11:53:02

I may buy the bicycle computer at walmart for $11 just for the trip/odometer (poor man's gas gauge) :P
seriously the instrument you posted is nice, just too expensive for me

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Dave on 06/13/14 at 11:59:14

Shorty:

I posted this speedo for folks building bobbers and Cafe' bikes who want to do away with the stock speedo....and have something that reads accurately....and has a dial on it. As time goes on I am sure the cost will come down on them.

If you get the bicycle speedo units...be sure to get the ones with wires. Wireless doesn't work on the Savage as the electrical stuff interferes with the wireless signals.

Dave

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by shorty on 06/13/14 at 12:10:42

ok thanks, the cheap one at walmart has 20 gauge wire leading down to a small sensor you mount on the fork tube.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Spamy on 06/13/14 at 13:05:36

Ive ordered one from speedhut. Completely customizable. Really awesome.

http://www.speedhut.com/

I have a feeling they may actually make the ones for legendary.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Spamy on 06/13/14 at 13:16:06

Mine is somewhat like this...

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Dave on 06/13/14 at 13:26:11

Yep....Bring it on! Keep posting links to things that folks might want to use.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Beagle on 06/13/14 at 13:37:55

These are nice and I'd love to get one but they are too expensive...however, it someone wants to purchase one for me, I'll take it! :P

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by raydawg on 06/14/14 at 08:24:21

I like it Dave, but it requires a 15 inch antenna it seems.....
I guess that is not a deal breaker, but?

I wonder if a small stash box could be fashioned out of the existing hole left by the speedo removal on the tank?

Would be silly to have two, eh?

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Dave on 06/14/14 at 09:44:03

The antenna cord is 15" long....the antenna appears to be about half the size of a cigarette pack.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by ToesNose on 06/16/14 at 04:08:59

The speedo I got from Dime City corrected my stock speedo and it isn't expensive :)

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Beagle on 06/16/14 at 08:15:17

556E64724F6E7264010 wrote:

The speedo I got from Dime City corrected my stock speedo and it isn't expensive :)

Which one did you get?

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by YoungSavage on 06/16/14 at 10:06:48

Now concerning tachs, and I may have this wrong and could be thinking of speedos but, aren't there different "formulas" that certain tachs use? Like 1:1 1:2 and that God awful harley ratio of somethin like 64:5280.

Just thinking about this because it helps when looking at ordering them and knowing other stock bike pull off that should work. ie: old harley or shadows or the such.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by verslagen1 on 06/16/14 at 10:45:50

There's no place to hook up a mechanical tach.

We use electronic tachs so ratio doesn't apply.

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by YoungSavage on 06/16/14 at 12:23:41

Life makes so much more sense now!

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Spamy on 08/14/14 at 18:53:27

Funny, the header has a speedhut ad now. I like mine so far.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/280x200q90/539/OE62el.jpg (http://imageshack.com/f/ezOE62elj)

Title: Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Post by Jeff71 on 08/15/14 at 22:24:57

Don't forget the acewell as great gauge even though it runs a hall sensor for the speedo. :)
Jeff