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Gear indicators are easy to find. In your head. After a few thousand miles on any bike, how can you not tell what gear you are in by an easy check of the MPH/Tach?
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everyone forget about this little gem?
ktm rc8 dash... every piece of race timing and data information you need to know at your dash... but push a button and it simplifies to a simple rpm/speed/temp only read out
also the ability to load it up to a pc by usb for data review
i don't understand what the fascination with fuel gauges is. i mean if my light flashes, that means i have 1 gallon left. if i just assume 40 mpg (i usually get better) then that means i need to find gas within 40 miles. if i have 1 bar on a little gas gauge thing, that means i need to figure out how many gallons (approximately, whereas my light is almost exact) i have then figure out how many miles i can go. seems like more thinking to me.
gear indicators really aren't that useful as i have found out. i seem to not try to shift into 7th as much, but other than that i don't really see any benefit
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I like the fuel gauge. It's just nice to know where things stand in a glance. Would it be a deal breaker on a bike, no.
I'd love a gear indicator. It's just nice to know at a glance where you are when the mind had wandered. I hate clunking down to first at 25 mph or worse grinding along on top of it with out getting there. Is it a deal breaker, no.
Most important thing to me is an analog tach. Is it a deal breaker on an otherwise perfect bike, no.
This thread is freaking awesome btw.
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Now if everybody was going 120 it wouldn't be a fucking problem, would it?
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