Piece of commute, with new tach

[5th_bike]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

...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.