Sounds like sense to me Jack - I just wish we had the freedom to do that sort of thing in the UK.

We have Police pulling you over to check whether your exhaust silencer has a steet legal stamp, or if your helmet visor is within an approved range of tint shading, and we can't wear any of the cool and comfortable cruiser-style helmets because they don't meet our nanny-state safety regs, so everybody has to wear a great big race-approved helmet.

They'll even pull you over to measure the height of the letters on your license plate on a bike, because the standard issue plates are so big they look silly on most bikes, and half of all motorcyclists have a smaller one made.

It's all very well my government being obsessed with safety (blame the fools who signed us up for the European Union) but I'd much rather be riding a bike with an add-on tank wearing just sandals and a pair of shades.

The less than alive-in-the-head Suzuki dealer here in town was going to order me a new cable but couldn't/wouldn/t tell me the length. In fact he wouldn't even tell me the price, but since it was to be a special order item I wouldn't even be able to take it back if it didn't work.

One thing I did try was to modify a version of a Honda (of some kind I think) cable. The end that goes into the tranny is a round plug about 1/2" long with a slot in it. I soldered a small washer into the slot and used a grinder to get the shape right to duplicate the shape of the "bumps" on the tranny end of the stock cable. The speedo end of the cables seems to be pretty standard. Then I had to cut the cable housing off and splice the Suzuki bottom of the outer sleeve (to keep the fitting that screws onto the transmission) and the Honda top together to cover the cable for it's full length. I'm pretty sure the industrial tape and clamped on fitting at the join would have kept everything intact over the long haul, but the fella at the yard with the go-cart let me end up with a more elegant solution when he took me to the Suzi-que 3 cyl. tach cable. Important either way is to clean the inner cable and pathway and to keep it lubed with oil, the same you use in the motor is just fine.

If all else fails, let me know and I can check at the yard here. It's a fair piece up the road, but I go that way from time to time. Back then they had three or four of those bikes rusting in the rain with cables still attached.

Jack

Did we find the cheese yet?  

Want some coffee?



Ha! It's not coffee...


Newly relocated speedo...


Just needs some paint and a cable. I bought one off of fleaBay, but the guy hasn't sent me the invoice for shipping yet...  

That speedo is too cool for preschool

What kind of clamp did you use to mount it to the bars and how did you attach it to the can?