Adding KPH to Speedo Gauge

[Aus_X]

I have a 2005 S2R 800 and I want to place a KPH sticker on the inside of my MPH dial. 
How hard is it to remove the front of the speedo and place some sort of KPH sticker inside the MPH?
I've seen a few sticker kits on EBay. 
I thought that I could slide one in under the needle so that i wouldn't have to mess around with the speedo too much.
The last thing I want to do is break something and have to replace the whole guage cluster.

[NAKID]

Why?

[He Man]

easy as 3.14 if you have the newer style gauges. just look behind your gauge if htere are screws then it comes apart easily.

Why?

some people think its "euro cool"

[Aus_X]

Why?

Because I shipped my bike from the States to the UK and now I want to tour it around Europe.

[Aus_X]

So you just disconnect the cluster from the bike and remove the screws, then the whole thing comes apart? 
I take it ther's seals, etc inside to stop moisture?
Does the front glass just pop off when you pull off the back of the cluster?

[He Man]

not worth it. id just put a sticker on the clear lens and call it a day.

you just pop the screws and the back comes out the clear lens are plastic formed into the top housing. you cant replace them easily.

[Howie]

All you need to do is memorize some equivalents of common speeds in europe. 

34 MPH = 55 km/h
62 MPH = 100 km/h
80 MPH = 130 km/h

should keep you ticket free.

[Latinbalar]

there are two screws in the back, one at the lower portion to remove the "bikini" then one under the bikini and it comes apart.

[dlearl476]

All you need to do is memorize some equivalents of common speeds in europe. 

34 MPH = 55 km/h
62 MPH = 100 km/h
80 MPH = 130 km/h

should keep you ticket free.

And if you have a bad memory, like I do, go to an office supply store and buy a pack of small plastic colored adhesive dots, and put them in the appropriate spots.  I did this when I took my Triumph to Canada and it worked flawlessly.

IIRC, the most common KPH's on my trip from Italy to Isle of Man were 40, 60, 80, 100, 110. 

[Drunken Monkey]

All you need to do is memorize some equivalents of common speeds in europe. 

34 MPH = 55 km/h
62 MPH = 100 km/h
80 MPH = 130 km/h

should keep you ticket free.

Yeah. Except I used to go riding in Canada a fair amount back in the day, and I kept having to deduct the overly optimistic, "My 620 can got 140 MPH" Veglia (pronunced vague-liar) 10% and then do the MPH to KPH conversion.

Bleh. Better to have KPH markers.

I recommend just using a grease pencil on the speedo glass. That's what I did for a few pre-calculated KPH speeds.

[TobyDanger]

Another option might be a speedo healer.  You can tweak the ratio so that your speedo reads 80mph but you are actually going 80kph.


2 things:
more expensive than a sticker
you are putting 60% more miles on your ODO than on your bike with the mph to kph conversion.

[dlearl476]

Yeah. Except I used to go riding in Canada a fair amount back in the day, and I kept having to deduct the overly optimistic, "My 620 can got 140 MPH" Veglia (pronunced vague-liar) 10% and then do the MPH to KPH conversion.

Bleh. Better to have KPH markers.

I recommend just using a grease pencil on the speedo glass. That's what I did for a few pre-calculated KPH speeds.

When in CA. I just used the "dumb american" conversion: "It's 100 Kilo-what?"


It worked (once).

[supertjeduc]

Buy such a thing