Aftermarket Speedometer Suggestion

Hey guys,

I have a 2003 Suzuki Savage. It's really a great bike for me since I'm
small and I always liked motorcycles with minimum features, however
there is one thing that I'd like to change. The speedometer on the
motorocycle sits on top of the gas tank and can be a burden to read
when I'm wearing my modular helmet. I'd like to get a few suggestions
on how I could possibly add a aftermarket speedometer to the bikes
handlebars so that the speedometer is higer up on the bike. I also saw
those speedometers that clipped to your helmet but am not so sure about
those. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks

 

A $99 housing for a $25 speedometer ?

Just buy the speedo with a rear wheel mount kit from any
internet bike shop. I cobbled up an LED/resister combo
on a stalk to light the sucker. I used a panasonic toothbrush
magnet glued to the wheel to drive it.

The one thing that pisses me off is that the two odometers
never agree with each other and almost never agree with
the roadside milage markers. Depends on how twisty
a road is and how much time the bike is leaned over,
but it's absolutely impossible to get a motorcycle odometer
to agree with anything else 100% of the time. On mine
it gets even trickier because the front and back wheels
are different diameters so the two odos can be way off.

 

Trail Tech Speedometer/computers.

www.trailtech.net

The Endurance will run you about $75.

Jim Cook

 

You're welcome.

We sold these for several years at the shop (shut down in June).
They are reset-able in tenths of a mile/km, and one can reprogram the
front wheel circumference number to adjust for increased accuracy.
They work well for off-road bikes, and dual sports, so they ought to
hold up for street use.
The Lynx model is a decent enduro computer. (I said decent, not
great.)


Jim
Team LAGNAF
www.smackovermotorsports.com

 

Thank you all for your suggestions. I really liked them all but
espcially like the Endurance speedometer idea. This was a really good
thread, awesome!