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School me on digital gear indicators

Started by Two dogs, February 19, 2013, 08:35:29 PM

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Two dogs

After my track day yesterday on the R6 I realised a gear indicator would be handy.
Unlike the Monster where I can hear and feel what gear I am in 99% of the time
the whinny high reving 600 combined with a quick shifter  [evil]   ;D fooled me a couple of times .
I had a quick look on ebay and there is a huge range of price and methods .
One uses a magnet and a sensor attached to the gear lever sounds hmmm somewhat bogus.
Any one installed one themselves , which brand/method where did you get it and price ?

tanks

Speeddog

No FHE, but there are ones that get an rpm signal, and a speedo signal, and then calculate from there.
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mattyvas

I have two types of gear indicators on each bike.

On the Monster I have an SP Electronics which is very nice it's well made and has a great harness that is plug and play no cutting at all.

On the dirty bike I have a GI Pro, it was far cheaper than the SP, fitting was a little more difficult as the instructions were a little vague, to the point it even had Vince stumped until we both found instructions on fitting a power commander that gave me the right wires I was looking for.
There was a little bit of splicing but it was pretty straight forward if I could get it done myself.

Hope that helps.

cheers
Matty...

Dannog

Matty, the sp electronic indicator is that the quick shifter version? Where did you pick it up from?

mattyvas

It's not the quick shifter one Danno. It's just the gear indicator version and I've had it for years I got it from SP Electronics themselves but its very hard to buy from them because they have an importer who asks around 400$ for them here which is stupid cause I paid half that.

Two dogs

$400  :o
Think Ill just learn to count  [laugh]
Thanks for the input MV .
I will have a chat to my LBS and see what they can recommend on a budget .
I would rather spend that on another track day or tyres which by the look of what I did to my rear after one day
is going to be the biggest hole in my pocket .

mattyvas

The GI Pro one from Heal Tech was about $130-$150 from memory and does the same job really.
The SP Electronics one is very nicely made and Italian so we all know about that don't we.