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Routy - 5th gear indicator
06/24/10 at 13:17:07

Hey Routy, weren't you trying to rig up some kind of light to indicate 5th gear? Did you ever figure anything out?

Was looking at b-p-stewart's bobber pictures and noticed the Left Turn/High Beam/Right Turn lights above the speedometer. Mine's an '06, so I guess at some point, they changed to just arrows and the "high beam" symbol, instead of words. Never really noticed the "old" indicators before. Then I got to thinking, I look at the switch on the handlebar to see if my high beam is on. Why do we need a light on the tank to show high beam? Maybe you can use it for 5th gear?????

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buttgoat1 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1042	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #1 - 06/24/10 at 15:09:57 my indicator is the dent in the top of my boot. after awhile i figger it out........
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28657 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #2 - 06/24/10 at 15:20:23 I use the dent in buttgoat's boot too... ...
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Tanker2Biker Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 231 Spring, TX (north of Houston) Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #3 - 06/24/10 at 15:37:03 As long as we are talking about 5th gear, let me ask this. The shift from 4th to 5th on my Savage is much less clean and distinct than the one from 1-2, 2-3, or 3-4. Is this common?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #4 - 06/24/10 at 16:43:27 Tanker2Biker wrote on 06/24/10 at 15:37:03: As long as we are talking about 5th gear, let me ask this. The shift from 4th to 5th on my Savage is much less clean and distinct than the one from 1-2, 2-3, or 3-4. Is this common? yes
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #5 - 06/24/10 at 19:00:30 You don't need a 5th gear indicator on the S40 when it sounds like your in 3rd your in 5th.
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #6 - 06/24/10 at 20:37:21 Bill, you seem pretty unhappy with your S40. Why don't you either trade it off or modify it to make it fit your expectations? Perhaps more to the point, why did you buy it in the first place? Didn't you do your homework and find out what you were buying?
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Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator
Reply #7 - 06/24/10 at 20:57:46

babyhog wrote on 06/24/10 at 13:17:07:

Hey Routy, weren't you trying to rig up some kind of light to indicate 5th gear? Did you ever figure anything out?

Was looking at b-p-stewart's bobber pictures and noticed the Left Turn/High Beam/Right Turn lights above the speedometer. Mine's an '06, so I guess at some point, they changed to just arrows and the "high beam" symbol, instead of words. Never really noticed the "old" indicators before. Then I got to thinking, I look at the switch on the handlebar to see if my high beam is on. Why do we need a light on the tank to show high beam? Maybe you can use it for 5th gear?????

BH, thanks for your, thoughts, but I gave up on the 5th gear indicator as soon as I realized that the connection would have to be done internally. All of the external tranny linkage and shifter arm returns to the same position no matter what gear you're in. I'll get e tach one of these days.
Actually there is so little difference tween 4th&5th, it doesn't really matter what gear I cruise in Wink

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Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator
Reply #8 - 06/25/10 at 05:14:13

Routy wrote on 06/24/10 at 20:57:46:

babyhog wrote on 06/24/10 at 13:17:07:

Hey Routy, weren't you trying to rig up some kind of light to indicate 5th gear? Did you ever figure anything out?

Was looking at b-p-stewart's bobber pictures and noticed the Left Turn/High Beam/Right Turn lights above the speedometer. Mine's an '06, so I guess at some point, they changed to just arrows and the "high beam" symbol, instead of words. Never really noticed the "old" indicators before. Then I got to thinking, I look at the switch on the handlebar to see if my high beam is on. Why do we need a light on the tank to show high beam? Maybe you can use it for 5th gear?????

BH, thanks for your, thoughts, but I gave up on the 5th gear indicator as soon as I realized that the connection would have to be done internally. All of the external tranny linkage and shifter arm returns to the same position no matter what gear you're in. I'll get e tach one of these days.
Actually there is so little difference tween 4th&5th, it doesn't really matter what gear I cruise in Wink

I hear ya. After I posted that, I thought I can rarely see if my high beam light is on or not, so it wouldn't really help much as a 5th gear indicator anyway! LOL

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photojoe FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline I did warn you to brace yourself Posts: 1379 New Jersey Gender:	Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator Reply #10 - 06/26/10 at 12:32:26 5th gear? What the hell is that? When I bought my Savage, I asked the PO how many gears there were. He said five. I said, five? "Yeah 5." So I ride it home on the parkway and I'm kickin through the gears; 1, 2, 3, 4......kick up for 5.....Nothing. Gear busted? No. No 5th gear for me
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Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator
Reply #11 - 06/26/10 at 18:17:49

photojoe FSO wrote on 06/26/10 at 12:32:26:

5th gear? What the hell is that?

When I bought my Savage, I asked the PO how many gears there were. He said five. I said, five? "Yeah 5." So I ride it home on the parkway and I'm kickin through the gears; 1, 2, 3, 4......kick up for 5.....Nothing. Gear busted? No. No 5th gear for me Angry

I had just the opposite problem. When I bought mine, the guy told me it had 4. I just miscounted at one point, and on the way down to first, I realized I had gone down 1 more gear than I thought I had on the bike. Grin

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Re: Routy - 5th gear indicator
Reply #12 - 06/28/10 at 12:59:42

photojoe FSO wrote on 06/26/10 at 12:32:26:

5th gear? What the hell is that?

When I bought my Savage, I asked the PO how many gears there were. He said five. I said, five? "Yeah 5." So I ride it home on the parkway and I'm kickin through the gears; 1, 2, 3, 4......kick up for 5.....Nothing. Gear busted? No. No 5th gear for me Angry

Joe,
My sporty has only 4 too. took a while to get use to it.

On my Savage, I was always looking for 6th. Till I got a tach. then I started to use the tach as a speedo since it was up on the handle bars.

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