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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: normzone on August 07, 2015, 09:32:26 PM
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A man could cut to the chase, and spare you the details, but then why own a keyboard?
When I bought the Bassa, the previous owner said the speedometer had died, then been replaced a few thousand miles ago. A receipt in the files substantiated this.
I rode away from the P.O.s in the dark, in the desert, and after a few miles the odometer ceased recording new miles. Strike one.
Several months later, the tach became erratic, then ceased to have an opinon. Sympotoms pointed towards it having spit an internal weight.
Next, the trip meter decided it did not want to be reset. So I began keeping a fueling log on a folded 3 x 5 card in my wallet.
Today, circumstances came together. I was being squeezed in one pocket, while the pack ahead of mine sped up and went away, opening up a large gap twixt us and them. No concealment spots for the motor officers, in between bridges and on ramps. The perfect place for a brief spurt of speed.
I made a couple of gentlemanly moves, patiently twisted the grip and we rolled up the ton. Beautiful. Now, to ease it back down. Check the road, check the needle - 100 plus and dialing down. Check the road, check the...needle ? Where's the needle ? I knew I was still in the nineties.
No needle. Check the road, check the instrument. The needle lay against the zero. It's stayed there since, and the trip meter now only remembers the good old days.
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must have twisted the throttle cable right up.. probably broke a few inches up from the transmission end..get a new one and route it with less of a bend around the airbox.
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You may also want to check the cable where it enters the transmission. I have had the cable work its way up. There is a ferrule that acts as a compression fitting. I have, on a couple occasions, loosened the cable, pushed the ferrule up just a little and put it all back together and had things working again.
John Henry
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I'm planning to make an aluminum dash with LED indicators and something modern like a Speedhut combination speedo-tach if and when my original instruments fail.
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[fotoguzzi], I'll guess you meant speedometer cable, not throttle.
[Triple Jim], is that a direct plug and play option, or do you have to work magic with wiring and such ?
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The Speedhut units get speed from either GPS, or a magnet on a wheel with a wired pickup. They get the tach input from an electrical signal from somewhere in the ignition system (several choices). So it's not plug-and-play, you have to do some wiring. I think the wired speed sensor is better than the more expensive GPS type, because it doesn't take time to acquire a signal, and it doesn't lose the signal when you're riding through the woods, for example.
There may be other types, so if you're interested, check www.speedhut.com (http://www.speedhut.com)
They do custom graphics at a reasonable price, so you can get "Norm's Guzzi" on the face, for example.