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odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:53 pm
by parby81
Can people confirm what a UK bike should read the odometer in?
I'm being told by a chap that his bike is an official bike and has UK clocks. This shows ht espeed in mph, but he says the odo is still in kilometres. Sounds a bit strange to me
Any help chaps and chapesses
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:20 pm
by RedexRobB
That is indeed strange, a mph speedo will only read/record in miles unless some sort of converter has been put on it.
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:47 pm
by parby81
he says its an official import, not grey, but the clocks are UK hence reads mph but odo in km's. does that sound right?
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:16 pm
by parby81
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:31 pm
by rover220
my mph speedo reads correctly in mph as the main scale but the units go up in kilometers. has no converter whatsoever.
youll find alot of aprilias (particularly rs 50) do it too. nothing wrong with it.
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:36 pm
by RedexRobB
This is an imported bike but an official one by kawazaki not a parallel import/Grey .
Hence the reason for the mileage being read in kilometers not miles per hour.
See if you can get him to take a picture of the CDI unit so you can see what colour sticker is on it, iirc a blue sticker suggests it is a UK bike, any other colour and its from japan/elsewhere.
to be open to everyone interested in this bike there has been a question raised over the speedo on here,from the information given to me and passed to her when she bought it from johns of romford in 2001 .the speedo is as was from new it reads in mph for the speed and milage is in kilometers and is the genuine milage/kilometer reading for this bike. as per service history and mot certs.she also believes johns of romford originaly supplied the bike to its 2 previous lady owners
All very strange, that speedo isnt the original, thats come off of something else. How the hell and more to the point, why, would a speedo read in MPH and record in KHM??
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:48 pm
by parby81
will try to, where is the cdi unit situated? will anything need removing for him to be able to get at it?
Many thanks for the help guys
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:56 pm
by rover220
just need to remove the rider seat and you willl see it.
i wouldnt worry about it, sounds fine to me.
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:03 pm
by parby81
cheers all,
it doesn't hurt to ask so i will try and get him to take a pic of the cdi.
many thanks for the help guys, hopefully i'll own one of these little beauties soon!!
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:08 am
by parby81
now he says that it could poss be jap or canadian as this is how there speedo's are? hmmmm
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:18 am
by masterofinsanity
of all the years this sites been going i've not heard of the speedo being in mph and the odo being in kmh.
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:01 pm
by parby81
well that leaves me with a quandry then, to bid or not to bid, that is the question?
If all the paper work is there proving what he says, then technically everything should be fine. hmmmmm
Re: odometer readings
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:24 pm
by RedexRobB
Canadian?? wtf?
The only thing i would be concerned about at this point is the bikes original mileage, thats not the original speedo so its either going to be close to what it should be or nothing near it.
Go and have a look would be the best thing, if all else is ok you only need to think about weather the speedo bothers you or not?