Imperial to Metric conversion

[DavidR8]

Hi, I'm the proud new owner of an '06 Caspian Blue 955. The bike is originally from the US so has speedometer units in mph.

I live in Canada and wonder what would be involved in switching over to a metric (kmh) speedometer. Obviously a kmh guage, but I have to assume there would be some electronic wizardry.

Its not a burning need, but it would be more elegant than putting markers on the speedo for the common legal speeds 

[Chris Canning]

You have two options either trawl one of the European ebay sites for a speedo(I've seen 3 clusters forsale but an individual speedo),or go for one of these,I've had mine for the best part of 10 years.


http://www.yellr.com/yb_home.htm

[DavidR8]

Thanks Chris, that looks to be the trick. Many thanks!

[Chris Canning]

If that's the route you go,when the Yellow box comes do a mock up first, you have to solder it in the speedo wire just make sure it is high enough up so you can tuck it behind the front fairing,I cheated I bought a spare speedo incase a cocked it up 

[DavidR8]

Thanks for the advice.

I was looking at the product website. If I understand correctly the device adds a percentage correction. For mph to kmh it's 38%. Logically this means the old 100 mph marker would become the 100kmh marker. Or am I off my rocker?

[Chris Canning]

Yep!!,the new version has a far greater variation than mine,mine is/was only 25% either way but was good enough for my smaller front wheel.

Or as I said in the other post onto one of the European ebay sites and by a clock with clicks!!

[blacktiger]

As the speedo has kph markings anyway. If you can get it out of the case, why don't you just make those markings a bit more prominent?

[Sin_Tiger]

Using my Steamer in Asia, the KPH scale was hard to read for my jaundiced eyes. I just made some little pointer / triangle stickers from a labelling machine label and stuck them on the glass at prominent points, i.e. urban, trunk and max limits, mananged not to get a ticket 

[DavidR8]

As Sin_Tiger said, the markings are all but invisible in the sun; the colour of the text and small size are the issue.

I did use some "White-Out" correction fluid to make a few marks at 30, 50, 60, and 80. Above that, I'm used to the numbers. I think that's from years of highway riding in my dad's old Ford truck. Nothing to do but look at the signposts and do math in my head. Round town, well there was too much to look at so I never paid attention.