Check it out. about 2 meg d/l [URL]http://www.aquariumtherapies.com.au/topend_wee1.wmv[/URL]
km/h are the small numbers on the inside dial. Although the scenery didn't seem to be going past very quickly for 350km/h?
That's what I thought too. Something ain't right there. Kevin Gleeson Imagine It West Hobart Tasmania Australia www.imagine-it.com.au
if some1 can be bothered, i spose u can work out how fast the lane lines are going past and use the approx distance between them as well as time to try work out speed..
if you dont mind a 22mb vid, i got an even better one of a turbo busa - i think a link was actually posted here some time ago
i rekn no1 cd be -- Conehead "Hehehehe - I reckoned it's throw ya! ;-)" BT Humble in aus.motorcycles are going past and use the approx distance between them as
http://www.google.com.au/groups?q=t...selm=bp7ltk$r5g$&rnum=1 snipped its http://snipurl.com/4nt6 Mike.S
BMW in the 1970s at least, the speedo cable comes of the gearbox. Lots of modern electronic speedos run from the driveline too, not the front wheel.
1987 BMW K100RT - rear drive speedo. Don't know which model it first started with, though. --- Cheers PeterC [aka MildThing] '81 Suzuki GS450-s '87 BMW K100RT www.dmcsc.org.au
Going by the pictures in my Beemer book, it was the R20 and the R35 of 1937 which first had the cable coming out of the back of the gearbox. Gary
Rear of gearbox speedo drives are very popular in cars, and Guzzis. I've got a piccy of a gear-driven speedo driven from a huge gear on the back wheel, circa 1920. One of my pushies has a rear-wheel drive speedo. Theo
