1961BMWR69S
1960R100S
Yep the /5 speedo broke last weekend, know i need to send it out to some one to have repaired. not sure where to send it, any ideas will help.
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They break all the time. I finally gave with such junk on my 71 R75/5 and put a Garmin GPS on top of the speedometer / tach assembly by using a HFT "Magnetic Cell Phone Mounting Kit." The Garmin GPS I am using has a very large MPH display page. And it can also be used as a GPS, when needed!Yep the /5 speedo broke last weekend, know i need to send it out to some one to have repaired. not sure where to send it, any ideas will help.
They break all the time. I finally gave with such junk on my 71 R75/5 and put a Garmin GPS on top of the speedometer / tach assembly by using a HFT "Magnetic Cell Phone Mounting Kit." The Garmin GPS I am using has a very large MPH display page. And it can also be used as a GPS, when needed!
And then for the tach, I am using a Harley Electronic Tach.
I couldn't care less about keeping the bike stock, I just want things to work well.
-Don- SF, CA
Terry "Wirespokes" Vrla gets my vote
Terryvrla@hotmail.com
He is an independent speedo repair shop in the Portland OR area - did the instruments on my R65LS & now is in the process of overhauling my speedo/tach on the R60/5
They break all the time. I finally gave with such junk on my 71 R75/5 and put a Garmin GPS on top of the speedometer / tach assembly by using a HFT "Magnetic Cell Phone Mounting Kit." The Garmin GPS I am using has a very large MPH display page. And it can also be used as a GPS, when needed!
And then for the tach, I am using a Harley Electronic Tach.
I couldn't care less about keeping the bike stock, I just want things to work well.
-Don- SF, CA
Let me go check right now . . .DonTom-
What Tach details do you use to select the model you're going with? - I'm going away from stock too. Specific models?
Thanks- D
It was the very first thing to fail on my 1971 R/75/5. And the speedometer assembly was replaced three times in a few years, and I've had everything in them break, tach, speedometer as well as the odometer. For years, I used the speedometer which still worked, with the tach that didn't. I finally gave up on it, moved all the indicator lights to the headlight shell with larger bulbs, and started to use the GPS for the speedometer and a separate electronic tachometer. I removed both the tach and speedometer cables permanently.What broke? Describe what happened. Did the odometer fail? (unlike the newer ones, the /5 odos seem to seldom stop working).