On my trip to Yukon and Alaska the speedo drive seized up. So it was time to decide whether to replace it or bring Stanley in to the 21st century and go digital. Long story short I decided to buck up and get a Vapor digital dash, which I had experience with having installed one on a previous bike.
It wasn't particularly onerous, especially since the Triumph idiot light bulbs push straight in to the Vapor idiot light 'dashboard'. I did not carry over the low fuel warning light since the sender in the tank does not work, so ended up slaving the two turn signal lights into one and using the high beam, neutral and oil pressure lights.
The new dash is a piece of alloy I had lying around, covered with faux carbon fibre sheet to make it look half-arsed decent. That's a led charging system warning light at the top right.
I ditched the Triumph clock since there is one in the Vapor and put the coolant temperature gauge where the clock was. Yes, you can get a temperature sensor integrated into the Vapor but I wanted to fill the hole in the fairing panel....
It looks a bit empty in there now, but what the hey!
Nice job. Looks a lonely though, you didn't have an old 8 track you could have squeezed I there just to keep it period :icon_scratch:
Quote from: Sin_Tiger on July 19, 2014, 10:54:39 AM
you didn't have an old 8 track you could have squeezed I there just to keep it period :icon_scratch:
Wots an 8 track then? some kind of navigation system I wonder :augie
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape I still have a car 8 track that I fitted to my dad's Woolsley 6 land crab when I was a teenager. Great bits of kit in their day.
That's great. Room for a sat nav?
And Sin you're showing your age with Wolseleys and 8 tracks!
Quote from: nickcalne on July 19, 2014, 02:52:36 PM
That's great. Room for a sat nav?
I suppose there would be with a bit of relocation of the Vapor. I hang my Garmin off the handlebars in the mount you can see in the second pic.
PS. The extra 'bonus' with the Vapor is that it can be re-programmed to show the actual mileage (or kilometrage in this case) that the bike has done, so you do not have to start at '0' again.
let me know how many wire leads for the speed sender you have to replace in the next couple years .
let me know how good it works after it has been wet from rain(although you may be ok because of tiggers fairing )
ask me why I ask such q's
btdt on honda I had
Quote from: Mustang on July 19, 2014, 06:49:23 PM
let me know how many wire leads for the speed sender you have to replace in the next couple years .
let me know how good it works after it has been wet from rain(although you may be ok because of tiggers fairing )
Noted. I am optimistic since I had one on a Yam XT500 with no issues over the time it was in use.
Quote from: nickcalne on July 19, 2014, 02:55:12 PM
And Sin you're showing your age with Wolseleys and 8 tracks!
Feeling my age after a 650 mile day on a Thruxton :pottytrain2
Quote from: Sin_Tiger on July 19, 2014, 07:33:42 PM
Feeling my age after a 650 mile day on a Thruxton :pottytrain2
You're only as old as the woman you feel........ :ImaPoser
So along with the other stuff I've done since I got back from the Yukon/Alaska trip I've finally had a chance to take Stanley out for a calibration ride. The beauty of going digital is that you can set the speedo up to be 100% accurate, with the added bonus with a Vapor unit that the odometer is 100% accurate too. The 'cheapo' 'no name' (aka Chinese knock-off) unit I put on the XR650L gives you the choice of being 100% accurate with the speedo, but then 10% off with the odo, or vice versa. The Vapor is accurate for both.
After the brouhaha with the turn signals all flashing together because I wired both circuits into a single idiot light in the Vapor dash I decided to get a separate high beam light and separate the left and right signal idiot lights.
132,252 miles?! Km's?! ;) Or is that 13,225.2 km's?
I will have to say the original gauges pay homage to a fighter cockpit style and the new vapor digital seems more gamer-ish.
Quote from: HeavyHustler on September 02, 2014, 02:37:18 AM
132,252 miles?! Km's?! ;) Or is that 13,225.2 km's?
I will have to say the original gauges pay homage to a fighter cockpit style and the new vapor digital seems more gamer-ish.
Erm, that's the time, in 24 hour clock-speak :icon_wink: I agree that analogue gauges are nicer to use. Very much so, actually. But needs must I s'pose.
13.2252 Volts :icon_study:
:icon_study: :icon_lol:
Enough, already! It's the time, just the time :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
Quote from: nickjtc on September 03, 2014, 06:28:00 AM
Enough, already! It's the time, just the time :icon_lol: :icon_lol:
it may be the weather or maintenance issues keeping us all from riding, instead of having a go at Nick bike :icon_lol:
Quote from: JayDub on September 03, 2014, 12:43:22 PM
it may be the weather or maintenance issues keeping us all from riding, instead of having a go at Nick bike :icon_lol:
Yes, but at least you can ride most of the year over there. This weekend will be my last long ride of the year before the insurance runs out and I have to tuck Stanley away for the winter