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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18098 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	GPS speedo.....and tach 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
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shorty Serious Thumper Offline be careful out there gentlemen Posts: 547 southern NM Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #1 - 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) seriously the instrument you posted is nice, just too expensive for me
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Reply #2 - 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.

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shorty Serious Thumper Offline be careful out there gentlemen Posts: 547 southern NM Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #3 - 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.
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Spamy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 224	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #4 - 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.
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Spamy Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 224	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #5 - 06/13/14 at 13:16:06 Mine is somewhat like this...
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18098 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #6 - 06/13/14 at 13:26:11 Yep....Bring it on! Keep posting links to things that folks might want to use.
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Beagle Full Member Offline 1998 Suzuki Savage Posts: 217 Ohio Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #7 - 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!
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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #8 - 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?
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18098 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #9 - 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.
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #10 - 06/16/14 at 04:08:59 The speedo I got from Dime City corrected my stock speedo and it isn't expensive
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Beagle Full Member Offline 1998 Suzuki Savage Posts: 217 Ohio Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #11 - 06/16/14 at 08:15:17 ToesNose wrote on 06/16/14 at 04:08:59: The speedo I got from Dime City corrected my stock speedo and it isn't expensive Which one did you get?
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Re: GPS speedo.....and tach
Reply #12 - 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.

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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: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #13 - 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.
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YoungSavage Junior Member Offline everyone knows I'm home by the KA-POW! Posts: 89 Monterey, California Gender:	Re: GPS speedo.....and tach Reply #14 - 06/16/14 at 12:23:41 Life makes so much more sense now!
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