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Speedo, KPH or MPH?

  • 26-06-2006 5:34pm
    #1
    The Doktor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭


    If you bought a brand new bike, would you expect your speedo to be MPH or KPH dominant? Or would you care?


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  • #2
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KPH! KPH! Must be KPH! I'm delighted my '02 Bandit has a KPH speedo! I'm French so Miles/MPH are harder to understand... :o


  • #3
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    KPH .......it's the denominatin your speeding tickets will be written in.

    Been law here for years, btw.............my 02 bike - supplied new by Irish dealer - has KPH only clocks.

    Mind you, so too has my Jap import car!!

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #4
    Garibaldi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Garibaldi


    I'd expect it to be in KPH, for analogue clocks, and switchable from MPH to KPH for digital clocks. If it's "brand new" with MPH clocks, it's old stock/something they couldn't even sell in the UK. I'd go and get an actual new bike from someone else.....unless, of course, they're doing you a good deal.;)
    You're not getting it from Bikeworld, are you? They've had some stuff sitting on the shop floor for years. Mind you, I'm sure they're not alone on that score.


  • #5
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Got mine new in 04 before the change over and that was in KPH, so i wary of a new bike here with mph, I would ask the dealer why


  • #6
    numorouno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭numorouno


    call me old fashioned but i prefer MPH. i like to do the calculation in me head while driving along....bit odd but im old fashioned!


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  • #7
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Pfff... Old fashioned :rolleyes:


  • #8
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    numorouno wrote:
    call me old fashioned but i prefer MPH. i like to do the calculation in me head while driving along....bit odd but im old fashioned!

    Ok, you're old fashioned !!

    so, do you think you'd have converted the no before the camera flashed?? :D:D

    And if it says 100 on the sign.........why would you want to convert it to 62 anyhoo??

    A case of doing 'exactly what it says on the tin'........I'd have thought, no?

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #9
    numorouno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭numorouno


    nah still old fashioned. im still at the 60mph. too old fashioned to go up to the "new fangled" speed limit of 62mph (aka 100kph) :P


  • #10
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Garibaldi wrote:
    I'd expect it to be in KPH, for analogue clocks, and switchable from MPH to KPH for digital clocks. If it's "brand new" with MPH clocks, it's old stock/something they couldn't even sell in the UK. I'd go and get an actual new bike from someone else.....unless, of course, they're doing you a good deal.;)
    You're not getting it from Bikeworld, are you? They've had some stuff sitting on the shop floor for years. Mind you, I'm sure they're not alone on that score.
    What if, very simply, the bike has just been imported from the UK? Saying that new bikes with MPH clocks are old stock isn't necessarily true me thinks...


  • #11
    Darando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Darando


    would most cars and bikes that are for sale new in england have what we had before. Main dial in MPH and a small KPH. Thats what i was led to believe.

    If not then it is only a simple case of new speedo which should be simple to fit same shape - setting etc. as they are available for ireland,france etc.

    or else just a custom dial background. Get them on net.


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  • #12
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Darando wrote:
    would most cars and bikes that are for sale new in england have what we had before. Main dial in MPH and a small KPH. Thats what i was led to believe.
    Yes, I do believe so.


  • #13
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    hmm,
    i just look at the postion of the needle,
    i dont register what the numbers are.


  • #14
    Garibaldi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Garibaldi


    Steffano2002 wrote:
    What if, very simply, the bike has just been imported from the UK? Saying that new bikes with MPH clocks are old stock isn't necessarily true me thinks...

    Ehh, is that not what I was getting at with the "couldn't even sell in the UK" comment? Even so, why would a retailer import a brand new bike from the UK? (Yeah, there are probably a load of reasons which, not being in the trade, I don't know about, but Brain is too tired to think of any right now.) Most parallel imports come from continental Europe, I believe.
    Meh, who cares. Personally, I wouldn't buy this bike, but there are a lot of people a lot less fussy than me. The better the deal, the smaller such details as the clocks become.
    "Very simply", indeed. Pshaw! ;)


  • #15
    The Doktor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭The Doktor


    yeah i wouldnt buy it either. .... but in all the excitment of getting a new bike, I didnt cop that it was MPH on it until i was 30 mins away from the shop.
    Last time I will assume that any Irish distributor can do anything right. Now the distributor wants to charge me for the privilege of having the correct speedo on me bike:mad:


  • #16
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    The Doktor wrote:
    yeah i wouldnt buy it either. .... but in all the excitment of getting a new bike, I didnt cop that it was MPH on it until i was 30 mins away from the shop.
    Last time I will assume that any Irish distributor can do anything right. Now the distributor wants to charge me for the privilege of having the correct speedo on me bike:mad:
    Can you not get a cheap KPH one online/eBay and sell your MPH one afterwards? Dealer prices are crazy...


  • #17
    The Doktor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭The Doktor


    Steffano2002 wrote:
    Can you not get a cheap KPH one online/eBay and sell your MPH one afterwards? Dealer prices are crazy...

    had a look, none seem to be available.
    but when you spend a fortune on a new bike, everything should be in order for the country u bought it in!!


  • #18
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Agreed. I thought of that as soon as I clicked on "Submit Reply" for my last post... Why should you pay extra to get a speedo in KPH? All speed related information in Ireland is in kilometres thus new vehicles sold in Ireland should have KPH speedos! Makes sense to me and you! I wonder if there's anything that can be done legally on this one...


  • #19
    Darando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Darando


    Would be worth looking into it via Dept. Transport or even better SIMI (I know they are for cars but will be up to speed on laws about speedos) or MAG or someone.

    Although if they sold the bike as an import, then prob nothing can be done.


  • #20
    The Doktor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭The Doktor


    Bike was bought as a "New Bike".. ..it was an import alright. Imported from the factory in japan. Chasin it with DOT alright...
    Shoulda been more on the ball, and made sure the speedo needed to be replaced under warranty before i mentioned anything!


  • #21
    Jamesobrady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Jamesobrady


    If the bike is marketed as a new "official bike" tehn teh clocks should be in kmph...as per the country it supposed to be officially imported into.
    If it a parallell import it'll still be in kmph as per japan/europe.

    If they've sold you an 04/05 uk bike only just registered, then that would explain it...but they've ripped you off compared to what you could have gotten it yourself for in uk.

    Go back..ask wtf the story actually is with the bike and where it came from...and demand the clocks replaced at the very least(if you like the bike a lot)...failing that the small claims court and a false advertising claim may be an option.


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