Electronic instruments
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If you're mad, a £20 Ebay "Dragon Gauge:"
Can become £0 worth of exclusive Smiffs Groanometric:
Can become £0 worth of exclusive Smiffs Groanometric:
Fast Eddie
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If you're mad, a £20 Ebay "Dragon Gauge:"
Can become £0 worth of exclusive Smiffs Groanometric:
What could possibly go wrong ?!?
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I would never use electronic instruments on a pre 1980 bike if they were not available at the time of manufacture. The joy of seeing a classic bike lies in it's authenticity. In Australia we have Manx Nortons in historic races sporting Scitsu electronic tachos. They serve a purpose but that is not what I go to historic races to see. The original Manx tacho costs an arm and a leg, but what is historic racing about ? Similarly with 1970s and earlier road bikes - why would you have one which is obviously a bitsa ? You might as well ride a chopper. My Seeley 850 is basically a 60s bike, the tacho is off a Suzuki RG250. It looks exactly like the tachos which were used on Italian racers in the 50s and 60s. It is cable-driven and the gearbox on the back of it is reversible by undoing two screws - and it is the correct ratio for the Commando drive. It even has the correct rubberised mount with the big 'O'-ring.
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I think the "soul" of the classic bikes resides in the original clocks.
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Incomplete. No trip setting switch , and instructions for all the tiny wires are challenging at best. But winter is just started and spring will reveal the truths.
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A Suzuki clock? Don't you know the soul of the classic bikes resides in the original clocks!
Next you'll be bastardising bikes with some sort of Eastern European engines.
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After connecting it to a battery charger and twiddling some potentiometers inside the clock, it may be quite accurate at 6,000 rpm. For a while!
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1975 MK3, getting all starter related bits.
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My install directions were missing a whole sentence in the Tach set-up. Where does the Red/blu wire go on the coils? Please don't tell me positive switched side of coil
Or, what is the positive switched side of coil?
Or, what is the positive switched side of coil?
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