Okay fellas, Show me you gauges.

[lucky13]

I am building my first cafe inspired bike. I am planing on running mini gauges from Dime City on my GS550. I cant decide if I want to run just a speedo, or both speedo and a tach. I have a stock gear indicator I am thinking of trying to incorporate as well. I also cant decide if I i should keep the ignition key in the stock location or move it below the fuel tank on the frame. lastly, I am running clip on's, and have milled the stock bar mounts off the top tree. Any photos to help me brainstorm would be great guys!

 

[SONICJK]

 

[session101]

what i don't understand is they make aftermarket speedo's and mini speedo's that go up to 160mph....

if older bikes barely topped out 125mph then why do they need to go that high, i wish they just made gauges that went to 100mph, 120mph, and 140mph... and tach's as well..

 

[TommyRocker]

what i don't understand is they make aftermarket speedo's and mini speedo's that go up to 160mph....

if older bikes barely topped out 125mph then why do they need to go that high, i wish they just made gauges that went to 100mph, 120mph, and 140mph... and tach's as well..

To impress people. I know a lot of less informed people assume the speedo indicates the top speed of the vehicle. My old ZX6 had a 180 mph speedo and people always assumed it would do that. I never managed more than 165 and I doubt it would hit 170 at Bonneville (indicated). I personally would prefer a speedo that matched the real capabilities. Car tachs are a problem too. When I was looking at guages for a Fiero build all the ones I liked went to 8 or 10 grand and I no engine I was looking to build would come close to that.

 

[Sonreir]

Gauges are kinda my thing...

Here's mine with the brass backing plate I fabbed up. I'm replacing the graphics pretty soon, though. I'm probably going to add some shift points so I know when I hit redline in each gear without having to run a tach.

 

[spazzle102]

Mine's an old ass replacement gauge for the 65 cb450

 

[kelvis]

DCC gauges on custom mount.

 

[Brentscafe]

DCC gauges on custom mount.

Very clean! Nicely done

 

[zwade]

I'm bringing this one back because I'm interested in seeing what some of you guys' gauge set ups are.

P.S. -- I want to run a tach/speedo combo without any indicators or other non-sense but it seems like they don't exist?

 

[crackerman]

Mike's mini gauge on my 07 Scrambler. No need for a tach.

 

[wolfeman28]

Zwade, check Speedhut. They'll make you a combo gauge with whatever you want (or don't want).

 

[neevo]

http://youtu.be/n8BtjG8Unbc

 

[zwade]

Zwade, check Speedhut. They'll make you a combo gauge with whatever you want (or don't want).

awesome, I'll check them out

 

[Flugtechnik]

Just the DCC speedo, a turn indicator light and a neutral light.