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Re: [ST] Speedometer is sealed?



If you take the speedo off the bike can you just rotate it
around (ie upside down ) to get the needle to go to th
e other side. I know it can be done with car instrument clusters.

Darren
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hays" <shays_adp@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ST] Speedometer is sealed?


> The bike was wrecked, I imagine the force of the
> impact somehow jostled the needle to the wrong side of
> the stop.  I have ordered one of those bicycle
> computers as a $25 stop gap in the meanwhile, thank
> you all for your help.
>
> --- "Anderson, Neil G (China)" <andersng@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Steve Hays wrote:
> >
> > >I have seen other bikes (Japanese supersports) with
> > >aftermarket guage faces, meaning that there is some
> > >way to get there to install those.  All I need to
> > do
> > >is somehow unscrew(?) the speedometer glass and
> > move
> > >the needle to the other side of the stop.  Does
> > anyone
> > >know how to accomplish this?
> >
> > I bought my ST in Germany and had to swap the km/h
> > speedo to an mph speedo
> > when I imported it to the UK.  I had a good look at
> > the km/h unit and it is
> > a sealed unit - to get inside it, you would need to
> > un-crimp the metal ring
> > that holds the glass face onto the unit.  I expect
> > it would be possible if
> > you're very careful.  I can't work out how the
> > needle got to the wrong side
> > of the stop on your speedo anyway - it must have
> > been wildly overspeeded
> > somehow, so the mechanism may not be accurate now
> > anyway.
> >
> > Neil
> >
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