Paging the 2006 Chimay crew ...

Timo Geusch says...

And so it begins....

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

I know. I mean, how many times have you known a Kawasaki speedo to fail?

 

I know. I mean, how many times have you known a Kawasaki speedo to fail?[/QUOTE]

The speedos themselves, no. But I recall the old air-cooled bikes
having a prediliction for eating cables. Or unscrewing them from
either end. Or eating the speedo drive gearbox if you didn't put the
front wheel in quite right.

 

<raises hand>

The GT's failed once. Actually, it was just the cable had snapped.

I only noticed because it also meant that the
auto-annoyingly-quickly-cancelling indicators stopped
annoyingly-quickly-cancelling.

 

The speedos themselves, no. But I recall the old air-cooled bikes
having a prediliction for eating cables. Or unscrewing them from
either end.[/QUOTE]

Had that on the 7R. Watched it drop from 160 to zero and found the cable
trailing underneath the bike, most of the way to the rear wheel.

It wasn't air cooled, either. Not at that point, anyway.

 

Bear says...

Well you'd have thought so if the bike was only 10 minutes old when it
went wrong.

--
Lozzo
Track pixie
GSX-R1000 K1
I haven't lost my mind, it's
backed up to a floppy disc
that's around here somewhere.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

^^^^^^^^^

You keep doing this.

It's "warranty", OK?

A warrantee is a person to whom a warrant is given.

I haven't got time to drive up there and beat you roughly every time you
do it, so give yourself a slap from me, would you?

Thanks.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

What a nice man, so obliging.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Champ scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Well, I had already checked that - cable was a bit loose, so I
tightened it at the wheel end. Pushing it around the underground
carpark at work (where it lowers the tone quite considerably) showed
that the cable is turning at the speedo end, hence my suspicion of a
borked speedo.