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One month left to vernal equinox which is the very earliest I've ever ridden here in Norway.
In the meantime I reminisce by watching some of last seasons videos.

In my neighborhood: https://youtu.be/5z4GVuYxb58?si=jKn3miWreLvtvR8_
In the mountains: https://youtu.be/_wpHVMuQyE4?si=XhZ8s262x4mJlQr6
In my shop: https://youtu.be/nXKG48LTvb0?si=Sy67HW0tXHRoEDG2

Looking at your mirrors...are you happy with the view?

If so, which brand?

getting restless here


cliff

Looking at your mirrors...are you happy with the view?

If so, which brand?

getting restless here

p.s.
speedo is wacky
cliff

The mirrors are OK i guess (pictures below), but could do with a little longer stems. Easy enough to make. I just haven't gotten around to it.

My speedo is spot on but it falls to zero in tunnels because it is a GPS speedo (SpeedHut).
There's also another slightly annoying thing with the GPS speedo and that is the needle won't keep up with maximum acceleration, especially in 1'st, 2'nd and 3'rd. There may also be a slight lagging behind in 4'th. I guess it has to do with the maximum puls frequency that can be sendt to the needle stepper motor.

If you look at the snapshots below from the video. A split second before i shift from 4'th to 5'th the tach shows 9600 rpm and the speedo shows a tad less than 180 km/h. A split second after the shift the tach shows 8200 rpm and the speedo has caught up and shows 180 km/h. There probably haven't been much acceleration during the shift.

I have the shift light set to 9500 rpm.

P.K.

Thanks.

I used speedhut also.
Tach is tied to generator for clean signal.
Speedo is OEM cable to hall effect transducer in speedo housing.

cliff

Well, that's an interesting approach. It wouldn't be my choice because I was thrilled about getting rid of both the speedo and the tach cable.
Was it for keeping an original look?

I also made my own lightweight front hub which doesn't include a speedo drive, so the choice fell on a GPS speedo instead of setting up a magnetic pick-up. Also the GPS version also has a lot of cool functions that the standard doesn't have, like altimeter, compass heading, 0-100 km/h timer (0-60 mph) and 1/4 mile timer.

I have tested the 0-100 km/h a couple of times and my best so far is 4.4 seconds, and I weigh 92 kg (203 lbs). It's all about the launch. With a little more launch practice I hope to get down to 4.0 seconds.

P.K.

Thank You PK

Yes, speedo is set up for pulsed signal and I did not want a flying magnet/wires routed up the forks.
So, speedo cable drives the Chrysler transmission speed sensor in which I modified to hall effect due to reed switch bounce.

For the tach, no amount of filtering cleaned up the hash noise on the signal.
For this, it is tied to a leg of the charging coils.

I have my tach connected to one of the coils, primary side. Near the coils I have a signal cleaner that converts the noisy 200V+ pulses to clean 12V square pulses. The signal cleaner is a discontinued Zeeltronic product. I started using this setup with the signal cleaner when I was running stock H1E ignition. A couple of years later I built a new ignition system using a KH250 stator, Zeeltronic PDCI-30 and some magnetic pickups. I still use the signal cleaner tapped into coil primary but I could actually eliminate it now and connect the tach to the PDCI-30 tachometer output instead. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I am using 3x HEI's from General Motors Delco division.
1/2 of a FWB to kill back EMI and drop coil current/voltage to CDI coils.
3x North polarity pick-ups triggers the HEI's.

Love the redundancy.