Author Topic: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35  (Read 7540 times)

Offline StinkyPete

  • Defected to a BMW
  • NR2016 Group
  • UNBELIEVABLE "5000 Posts" Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6546
  • Thanked: 2952 times
  • Blackwood, SA
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #25 on: February 21, 2018, 06:21:24 AM »
I can count to five, so I feel no need for a GPI.   In any case, a quick glance at the speedo and tacho will tell me what gear I'm in.
IBA #59146   OzLapper 2012 & 2019

BSA M21 600cc single (1948)
Yamaha XS650  (The Black Wobbler)
Yamaha XJR1300 (Rocket Ship)
Honda ST1300 (Beautiful Bike)
BMW R1200RT (Technically Perfect)
 

Offline TouriSTs

  • Black 2011 ST1300A
  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 76
  • Thanked: 12 times
  • Marty, Adelaide
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #26 on: February 21, 2018, 09:24:53 PM »
I can count to five

Not always, Pete ;-*

Quote from StinkyPete November 22, 2013:

"I must say that i'ts only on rare occasions that I've thought that a gear indicator would be useful, and usually when I forget to snip into top after leaving a town.   The bike is humming, the power is good, and then I realise that I'm doing 120km'h in 4th."
Marty
 

Online Brock

  • Tardis Tech
  • UNBELIEVABLE "5000 Posts" Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 8724
  • Thanked: 1697 times
  • White is the fastest
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2018, 09:40:01 PM »
at 3500RPM, the bike will be at about 110 Ks in top (5th). If the revs are higher change up.

I raely look at the revs or speedo, so a gear indicator is of no use to me.
Brock
Asian Correspondent
2003 Honda ST1100PY



Ulysses #32829
STOC #8239
OzSToc # ??
Kinross WA
 

Offline Biggles

  • NatRally 2018 - Mackay
  • "Top Dog" 10000 club
  • *
  • Posts: 14059
  • Thanked: 2508 times
  • Bridgeman Downs, Brisbane
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2018, 10:15:04 PM »
I can count to five

Not always, Pete ;-*

Quote from StinkyPete November 22, 2013:

"I must say that i'ts only on rare occasions that I've thought that a gear indicator would be useful, and usually when I forget to snip into top after leaving a town.   The bike is humming, the power is good, and then I realise that I'm doing 120km'h in 4th."

Sheesh!  You can't get away with anything around here!  That's over 4 years ago.    :eek
Maybe Pete was wearing mittens that day.  It helps when digits are involved to be able to see the digits.     :grin
For the modern man who lives in the city, riding a bike might be one of the only ways to escape the humdrum monotony. To take off and ride. To be both at one with nature and one with the bike. To feel masculine. Adam Piggott

OzSTOC #16  STOC #6135  FarR #509  IBA #54927
 

Offline alans1100

  • 1999 ST1100A
  • UNBELIEVABLE "5000 Posts" Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 6250
  • Thanked: 1161 times
  • Alan, Peterborough, SA
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2018, 11:14:53 PM »
I can count to five, so I feel no need for a GPI.   In any case, a quick glance at the speedo and tacho will tell me what gear I'm in.
I don't need it either. Probably won't do it as it'll mean getting under the bike and cleaning off 18 years of accumulated grime so the magnets will mount beside the shift lever.
1999 :bl11  2004 :13Candy

FarRider #921- BR15, BR17, CR1

 

Offline StinkyPete

  • Defected to a BMW
  • NR2016 Group
  • UNBELIEVABLE "5000 Posts" Member
  • *
  • Posts: 6546
  • Thanked: 2952 times
  • Blackwood, SA
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2018, 06:04:15 AM »
I can count to five

Not always, Pete ;-*

Quote from StinkyPete November 22, 2013:

"I must say that i'ts only on rare occasions that I've thought that a gear indicator would be useful, and usually when I forget to snip into top after leaving a town.   The bike is humming, the power is good, and then I realise that I'm doing 120km'h in 4th."

 :rofl   That's funny and excellent background research.   Perhaps TouriST has missed his calling as a polly.
IBA #59146   OzLapper 2012 & 2019

BSA M21 600cc single (1948)
Yamaha XS650  (The Black Wobbler)
Yamaha XJR1300 (Rocket Ship)
Honda ST1300 (Beautiful Bike)
BMW R1200RT (Technically Perfect)
 

Offline Biggles

  • NatRally 2018 - Mackay
  • "Top Dog" 10000 club
  • *
  • Posts: 14059
  • Thanked: 2508 times
  • Bridgeman Downs, Brisbane
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #31 on: February 22, 2018, 10:03:03 AM »
:rofl   That's funny and excellent background research.   Perhaps TouriST has missed his calling as a polly.

It would be as a Research Assistant.  Pollies don't have time to read- far more important things to do, as we've been informed lately.
For the modern man who lives in the city, riding a bike might be one of the only ways to escape the humdrum monotony. To take off and ride. To be both at one with nature and one with the bike. To feel masculine. Adam Piggott

OzSTOC #16  STOC #6135  FarR #509  IBA #54927
 

Online NTRebel

  • Legendary "1000 Club" Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1233
  • Thanked: 899 times
  • red centre red bike
Re: Gear Position Indicator (GPI) For around $35
« Reply #32 on: February 22, 2018, 12:05:44 PM »
It's not that they haven't got the time more that they can't read that's why they need assistants.
:rofl   That's funny and excellent background research.   Perhaps TouriST has missed his calling as a polly.

It would be as a Research Assistant.  Pollies don't have time to read- far more important things to do, as we've been informed lately.

I'm not strange i'm just not normal {Salvador Dahli}