Roadster gauges

[steve59]

I really like the digital display on the tach side of the roadster and was wondering if anyone here has fitted one on a standard and if it works or can be made to work. A gas gauge and clock would be nice on the long rides.

 

[Jeffrey Cochran]

Me too , Just came back from the dealers , sat on a Roadster and thought the exact same thing ! Had asked them and of course they had no idea .

 

[bruce aussie]

I really like the digital display on the tach side of the roadster and was wondering if anyone here has fitted one on a standard and if it works or can be made to work. A gas gauge and clock would be nice on the long rides.

The fuel gauge is a lying Barsted but the clock is handy. I generally have it up on the display instead of the trip mileage. The gauges are backlit with a red light. Makes them hard to read at night.

 

[Mittzy]

The fuel gauge is a lying Barsted but the clock is handy. I generally have it up on the display instead of the trip mileage. The gauges are backlit with a red light. Makes them hard to read at night.

I find the same... My low fuel light came on saying 85klms to empty, travelled another 40klms - filled up with only 15lt

 

[Adam79]

****e I'm glad it's not only me who thinks the fuel gauge is ****e then, I'm lucky to get 240klm out of a tank on a good day with very little fun, lol

 

[steve59]

there's a low fuel light for the standard so there has to be some sort of sensor in the tank to provide the information. We drove Grand prix for years and their reAson for red backlighting was it's good enough for fighter pilots, red doesn't dialate the pupils as much taking less time to focus maybe that was triumphs reasoning for red.

 

[Wrecka]

Sometimes after a fill up the damm fuel gauge shows anything up to 5 bars from full , never run out though...

 

[1olbull]

my gauge works slowly after a fill up, sometimes taking a half mile or so down the road before it shows full.

 

[CanberraR3]

I really like the digital display on the tach side of the roadster and was wondering if anyone here has fitted one on a standard and if it works or can be made to work. A gas gauge and clock would be nice on the long rides.

Me too , Just came back from the dealers , sat on a Roadster and thought the exact same thing ! Had asked them and of course they had no idea .

It's a bit much to expect a dealer to know which parts from the range of new bikes might be able to be fitted to earlier models. It's not an easy thing to cover off all permutations, although it's not impossible to get an idea.

For what it's worth, Rockets with VIN numbers 334808 (ie last 6 digits) and above all use the same sender unit in the tank. That means my '09 Standard has the same sender unit as the latest model Roadster. The problem of course will lie in the wiring. There are 7 different wiring harnesses (4 for various Roadster models). As well as the three different harnesses for Standard/Classic models there's 2 different sub-harnesses. If you can sort out the connections you need and have the ability to rewire you perhaps won't need to change the complete harness but you will nevertheless need to replace the ECU. For mine it would be cheaper and easier to buy a new bike.

I bought a bar mounted clock from Clocks4Bikes for about $30 and pretty much can tell you how much fuel is left in the tank from my trip metre. And if I forget to look at that, the fuel light hasn't failed me in 5 years and I know how much I have left when it comes on. I'd learn to live with it.

 

[CanberraR3]

And by the way, the Roadster Tach will cost almost $700 in Australia or more than $1500 for the instrument set, and that doesn't include the buckets or mounts which you might need also.