A digital compass is an interesting idea.  Didn't think of that because I have a GPS unit, but it would make sense and be easy to add.

I had another crazy idea today. As I was working out I thought it would be cool to have a heart rate monitor readout like on my Elliptical. Sort of the "Bwuhahhhahhah" meter.  I think that some of the cycle computers have that capability.  

I could see it like this :

RPM check: 5200 (OK)
Speedo:  91.3  mph (OK)
Oil Pressure: 12 psi (OK)
Voltage:  13.4  (Ok)
Bwuhaha:  143 beats per minute (Perfect!)

All of the above...and not for taking it seriously.  I'm just suprised this thread hasn't been hijacked into another political thread.

forrest wrote on 09/14/08 at 10:45:49:


Actually, I do honestly appreciate the feedback and take it seriously. I just also have a good sense of humor and have no problem laughing at myself.  

Perhaps I can help the political threadjackers by adding that my original plan was to keep it savage simple, but somehow I found myself hoping for change. Real, hopeful change, the sort of change that makes the bike run better in the future than it ran in the past. I was raised in a single cylinder parent family, a mixture of Norton and Triumph parts. It wasn't easy.  

I voted for the oil pressure gauge because I was afraid of the "surge" of "big oil" , Haliburton oil. Exxon Valdez oil.  First I voted against the oil gauge. Then for it. I wanted to drill a hole in the crankcase to install my oil sender, but I did not think I could drill my way to more oil in less than 7 years (my bits are pretty dull). Then again, doing nothing was not a good plan either.

I started thinking the bike was my property and I should be able to do what I want with it. But then again, what about the common good I thought? Why should I have two speedometers when some poor guy only has one? Or maybe even no speedometer. A speedometer should be a right, not a privilege. Why is it that the government can hand out speeding tickets but not provide the poor with speedometers so they can avoid tickets? It seems that the government is getting pretty selective about what sort of needs it will fulfill by wealth redistribution.

OK.. that should give the search engine enough to work with for now.

why gps i melborne fl?? cant go too far east lilfarther west and south long way north till you hit georgia (sure wouldnt want to get lost there)

Ess, can I call you Ess?, I have to agree with your question about why the would the government allow unequal distribution of speedometers.   But not just our governement, but the Japanese and Suzuki.

In fact, I believe we should petition Palin (if she becomes VP) to impress the need to attack Japan.   After all, they did attack and occupy Alaska during WW2; see the general election thread.   And, wasn't it the Japanese who designed the very bike we ride without all of the same features other bikes have?

How can we stand by and allow this transgression by the Japanese to go unpunished. I want either war with Japan or the Japanese to pay me compensantion.