Piece of commute, with new tach

[5th_bike]

My 25 mile commute is blessed with a few nice twisty rural back roads, they go up and down, left and right, my Suzuki GZ250 is just purring with joy and happiness.

This morning I made a short movie of my new tach, shifting up from 3rd to 5th gear, and the road, on one of those rural parts:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mChCYoXfW18


Apologies for the shaky camera when going over 40-45 mph. It's the wind...

[Magnar Infectus]

Cool vid.

Question.

How did you rotate your tac? Did fabricate a new bracket or figure out how to rotate it inside the "cup" (or whatever it's technical term is)?

Thanks.

[5th_bike]

Cool vid.

Question.

How did you rotate your tac? Did fabricate a new bracket or figure out how to rotate it inside the "cup" (or whatever it's technical term is)?

Thanks.

Magnar:

Thank you.

The tach is not rotated, it is "as is" from the box. I attached it to the bolt that holds the (black bracket of the) right turn signal assembly. That bolt is visible only on the underside of the solid steering stem plate.

Unscrew bolt, hold tach bracket (bottom) and signal assembly (top) in place, replace bolt, tighten (not too tight - it's aluminum after all), done.

[Magnar Infectus]

Got it. Do you have a link to that particular tach or at least the make/model? The one in Quimrider's post (http://www.gz250bike.com/viewtopic.php?t=533) is dfferent from yours and sits at an angle once it's mounted using the stock bracket. I'd prefer to have one that wasn't at an angle and didn't have to fabricate a bracket for.

Thanks.

[5th_bike]

Got it. Do you have a link to that particular tach or at least the make/model? The one in Quimrider's post (http://www.gz250bike.com/viewtopic.php?t=533) is dfferent from yours and sits at an angle once it's mounted using the stock bracket. I'd prefer to have one that wasn't at an angle and didn't have to fabricate a bracket for.

Thanks.

The angle is due to the mounting at the bolt that holds the "turn signal and neutral lights" assembly. I used another bolt.

Mine is from Dennis Kirk part # 40-7646 for $69.95 plus $6.95 shipping.
Manufacturer Part #: 160428

try this link (http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/product_catalog/Product.jsp;jsessionid=LCTFOFGWNNZONLA0WTVSM4VMDK0 NCIV0?store=Main&skuId=407646), otherwise google dennis kirk and search for the part number.

I got their last one, three four weeks ago, and indeed two weeks later they had none left. And now they say they have one left. Hm.

[Sarris]

The one in Quims post has a little bigger dial face and is a bit less expensive than the Dennis Kirk tach. It also can be mounted to the turnsignal bracket bolt to straighten out the face. They all look like the were manufactured by the same Taiwan (Chinese?) manufacturer and have the same basic mounting bracket.

Mine was $56 +/- shipped from Powersports Outlet as listed in Quims post. It works great, is in stock, and arrived in 3 days.

FYI

:2tup:

[5th_bike]

The one in Quims post has a little bigger dial face and is a bit less expensive than the Dennis Kirk tach. It also can be mounted to the turnsignal bracket bolt to straighten out the face. They all look like the were manufactured by the same Taiwan (Chinese?) manufacturer and have the same basic mounting bracket.

Mine was $56 +/- shipped from Powersports Outlet as listed in Quims post. It works great, is in stock, and arrived in 3 days.

FYI

:2tup:

Sorry, but the brackets are different - the one in Quim's post is more or less triangular, and mine is more like a straight bar with kind of a "Y" underneath the tach. The turn signal bracket bolt sits further back than the signal lights bolt. But it looks like both tachs could be mounted more or less straight, there. For details also please see my posts and pictures at the end of Quim's thread.

[Sarris]

They all look like the were manufactured by the same Taiwan (Chinese?) manufacturer and have the same basic mounting bracket.

The brackets, though physically shaped a bit different, exit at the 90 degree point of the tach and have one mounting bolt hole. They are basically the same.

:)

[5th_bike]

They all look like the were manufactured by the same Taiwan (Chinese?) manufacturer and have the same basic mounting bracket.

The brackets, though physically shaped a bit different, exit at the 90 degree point of the tach and have one mounting bolt hole. They are basically the same.

:)

Ah, I see. Thank you for the language lesson ! :tup:

US English, sometimes.... :??:

[alanmcorcoran]

...any real advantage over the one between your ears? I seen them (and gas gauges!) on other (bigger) bikes, but then I never used one whn I drove a standard either. I think I pretty much shift by the sound and the feel of the bike and I only look down at the speedo and such to see if I'm speeding.

[5th_bike]

...any real advantage over the one between your ears?

No, on the contrary, it adds an unnecessary distraction to your ride. I caught myself looking at the tach and thinking "wow, better keep your eyes on the road you [censored]!!"

And who needs a tach when the relationship between rpm, gear and speed for 15 and 16 tooth sprockets has already been tabulated by Jaime - by the way, anyone hear from Jaime lately ?

But there is the "cool" factor - look at me, I put a tach on my bike, isn't that cool ?
And you got something visibly moving when the bike is standing still.

I have contemplated getting rid of it because of the distraction, but think I will keep it for adjusting the idle to 1300 rpm. That is the one and only useful purpose of it.

Now I'm contemplating making a circuit to make the tach needle go to 8000 and then fall back when you switch the bike's key contact to "on". Like the Ducatis. That would be cool.

But for now, my neutral light bulb has burned out, it needs to be replaced first.