Odometer rolled over again

[gspd]

Love when this happens, makes it feel like a new bike again.

[Steve in Golden]

It really does look like a brand new bike! How many times has it rolled over now?

[Brickboy]

Crikey that looks sparkling. What a bike

[gspd]

It really does look like a brand new bike! How many times has it rolled over now?

The odometer has flipped-over 6 times. The whole bike, only twice.

[ME 109]

You'll wear the bloody thing out if you keep this up!
Bits of my RS have about 325,000 k k's. Like the odometre. And the frame. And the handle bars.

[jackonz]

Wow that looks nice, it's a credit to you .

[spo123]

As repeatedly shown, 15 years (or so?)...Your motorcycle shows a cleanliness, which to myself, is beyond belief:)
Even before you "went away".
Very Cool

[gspd]

Wow that looks nice, it's a credit to you .

As repeatedly shown, 15 years (or so?)...Your motorcycle shows a cleanliness, which to myself, is beyond belief:)
Even before you "went away".
Very Cool

The 'clean-up' operation after my last months' Maritime trip, 8000km in 14 days, all secondary roads, many unpaved, some mucky trails, lots of rain and crap, a few unintentionally road-killed rodents and birds, etc, resulted in approximately 20 hours (not in a row) of TLC time. My 'seat time' vs. my 'TLC and maintenance time' ratio is totally out of whack. Life's too short. But, hey, what else could I possibly do when I'm not actually riding my bike?

In contrast, my wife's (jap) bike is no worse for the wear and it only required an oil change and a quick hosing off after the same trip, maybe an hour total time. hmmm...

For some inexplicable reason, I like it when the oil pan bottom ribs mirror on the inside of the skid plate. It soothes me. Sosume.

[Zombie Master]

What kind of obsessive compulsive behavior does this represent?
Ask him how he performed warranty work on this bike, stripping a cylinder head off another bike in the friggin' showroom.
He wasn't even working at the dealer!
Something seriously wrong...or right with this guy.

[gspd]

So, my old speedo was now up around 20,000km and the needle started bouncing around (again).
Took it apart, fixed the bouncing needle (again) and I tried to calibrate it as best I could with strategic needle placement.
I did some speed checking with a temporary GPS speedo hooked up.
It read dead on at 105km/h, but read 60km/h at actual 52km/h (8 over), and at an actual 148 km/h it read only 140 km/h (8 under). This was pissing me off. It was not a new problem, but something I had learned to compensate for over the decades I've owned my bike. The odometer was always pretty much dead on throughout its life.
I remembered respected forum member Airbear was quite pleased with his Speedhut unit, so I decided not to waste anymore time with my antiquated analog POS and forked over a small fortune for a new digital Speedhut GPS speedometer.
So far, I LOVE IT! Totally accurate at any speed, super smooth and steady needle movements, and a ton of other features to toggle through such as altitude display, direction display, 0-60 timer, 1/4 mile timer, gps time clock, 45 second start up time from cold, much less if restarting when stopped for less than 4 hours, etc.
I now have the extra digit so it won't start over at 0 every 100,000km the way the stock one did.
I thought I'd miss the analog odometer digits rolling over, but I hardly even notice that.
The lifetime warranty clinched the deal.
Other bonuses : Its blue glow at night perfectly matches my other gauges and no more stupid speedo cable to deal with.