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Re: [ST] Speedometer is sealed?
- Subject: Re: [ST] Speedometer is sealed?
- From: Steve Hays <shays_adp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:57:31 -0700 (PDT)
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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