Biketronix gear Indicator

I've done the top+1 thing on every bike I've ever ridden, including the
thou. It's instinctive.

Specific to your example of a middleweight twin, I made reference up
there ^^^ to an entire weekend of trying to find 7th on an SV.

 

the only thing of any sort of vague, mild merit he ever did, was too
sort of amuse me by, as a 2/3-scale human, buying a matching 2/3-
scale car (Suzuki Cappuccino).

Other than that: ****.

 

I wonder if it would be possible to have a comprehensible argument simply by
quoting xkcd pages at each other.

 

At this rate we're going to need a 306x

 

Fortunately all (well, most) bikes come with an indicator that tells you
if you're in the wrong gear. Two of them, in fact - a dial at the front
and a tube at the back.

 

Er, no, top+1 implies I'm already in top and trying to find a higher gear.

They're both gutless piles of crap, I cba to split hairs.

 

Oh, that. I've also done that on just about every bike I've ever ridden.
Never quite as badly as Kiran, mind.

<googles>

Dilbert? What is this, 1996?

 

<kills thread>

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Nerd humour is timeless.

Phil

 

Fair comment, so far as a particular bike goes. However, gear X at
N000 rpm (as indicate by tacho or exhaust pitch) might be right for
bike A in situation C, but not bike B in situation C.

It took me a few runs up Wiscombe to remember that 350 Morinis,
whilst being four stroke V twins, are only 350's and won't pull out of
a slow bend like the Voxan.

IIRC Nige has only recently started riding a V twin (the Honda died
pretty quickly), so he may be being caught out occasionally by
thinking he hasn't got enough revs on IYSWIM and changing down one too
many.

He's probably still better learning to ride it by the seat of the
pants (or by 'ear'), than by instruments, if he can IMO.

PF

 

Post corrected.

 

I think we should award this one a 306x and stop actually posting the
link.

 

Damn.

 

Ding. Who cares what the number of the gear is, if it's the right one
for the circumstances, and if you jump between bikes you rapidly get the
feel of the revs/gears/speed without no poxy steenkin' numeral.

I had working gear indicators until they failed, and fail they all did.
I fixed them once on each bike, but gave up as it was pointless. I found
the GIs had me looking at the bloody GIs far too much and when they
finally packed up for good I didn't miss them at all.

 

Exactly; it's how we used to do it, until last week.

Whatever, he'll sell it before another week is up.

 

Only for top gear confirmation when cruising. Where the sound and
torque aren't a giveaway.

 

But how the hell do you know which number gear will be the 'correct'
one? Answer: unless you do the same route in the same conditions every
time, you don't, so it's a completely futile bit of knowledge.

 

I had a gear indicator on my K100RS. At the time I found it bloody
useful. However, when I bought a bike that didn't have one, I didn't
miss it.

A top gear indicator can be slightly useful to me, but that's only
because I ride three different road bikes: two Vees and an
inline-four.

I can never remember what's the right tacho reading for a given bike,
and in 'formation' rush-hour traffic on dual carriageways, I do
sometimes trundle for a couple of miles out of top when riding Vee
twins. Conversely, I sometimes find myself looking for another gear on
the R1.

 

As a carry on from a previous thread, My old Suzuki GT750 had a gear
indicator as standard fitment way back in the 70's.
Bloody useful really.

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