Anyone used one? What are they like to sertup? Looks quite easy, but the training bit looks like it could be a ballache. For the Mille btw. -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
I think I have one in the garage. Never fitted it though. Was for the Trumpet but sold it before fitting. Not much help really ;o) -- Greybeard FLHR -03 UK (95 cu-in Stg 2. Big Boy 2!) Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home! ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk
I find gear indicators quite useful, especially iuf you are on a big V twin. Fucking thing caught me out last week, coming out of a large roundabout on pretty much full throttle to find i was in first -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
For most people it's probably easier to learn to ride properly than it is to fit the gear indicator, that will stop working the first time it rains anyway.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie If you chaps will insist on buying under-specified bikes... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie <checks log book> No, guess again. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie <crn mode> You're just being pedantic! You're a nasty man. I'd just like to point out that, amongst its other fine attributes, Mr Kawasaki's 1400GTR has a gear indicator as standard. It's got numbers and *everything*. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
Apparently. Aggressive, to boot. Is that all. When you said under-specified I thought you meant it went higher than 6. I think mine must be in hex. It goes to E.
Does it really matter what *number* gear you're in, as long as it's the right one? Can't you tell by any other means than looking at a readout? For instance, you're following a car, the road opens up, you go to pass: what's your first action? a>Look ahead? b>Look behind? c>Give it beans? d>Check that the number on the dash is the one you thought it was? Perhaps they can't find a simple enough explanation for there target demographic.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD As do all the finest motorcycles. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
I'll grant you that this is something I've done, as I'm sure have most people here, from time to time. Annoying, but never such that I'd have been really bothered by it; after all, it only takes a fraction of a second. This is what I don't get - if you want more engine braking, change down another gear or two. How is having the current gear displayed going to help you? Personally I wouldn't know what gear I'd want to be in anyway, but would just go by feel. Or can you seriously not tell if there's enough engine braking or not? Eh? Seemed a perfectly reasonable question to me.
I don't look at mine when it reads above "4" as I'm generally concentrating quite hard on how rapidly the horizon is approaching.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ AOL, if I'm honest. very occasionally I glance down and it says "5". So I snick it up one. Every now and again when arriving at the head of a queue for the lights I have a quick shufty to make *sure* I'm in first, to avoid any embarrassment. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
