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General Discussion / Kidding the speedo...
« on: August 17, 2011, 08:23:52 AM »
Does anyone know how the speedo reads the sensor ring on the front wheel on a modern scooter.
My experience is about a thousand years old when all we had was a cable driven by a small sprocket on the front wheel that span inside the speedo itself.
As I see it, the serrated ring spinning on the front wheels of modern scooters act through the sensor in a similar manner.
But are the actual pitch of the slots and the gaps in between significant. Does the computer in the bike "count" the slots and determine the road speed from that, or are the slots just to make it easier for the sensor the "see" the movement?
The reason why I ask is that the Downtown has an unreadable MPH scale and I was thinking of making a new ring with different spacings and slots to kid the speedo into reading in MPH instead, (assuming that this will even work!).
Anyone ever tried something like this?
My experience is about a thousand years old when all we had was a cable driven by a small sprocket on the front wheel that span inside the speedo itself.
As I see it, the serrated ring spinning on the front wheels of modern scooters act through the sensor in a similar manner.
But are the actual pitch of the slots and the gaps in between significant. Does the computer in the bike "count" the slots and determine the road speed from that, or are the slots just to make it easier for the sensor the "see" the movement?
The reason why I ask is that the Downtown has an unreadable MPH scale and I was thinking of making a new ring with different spacings and slots to kid the speedo into reading in MPH instead, (assuming that this will even work!).
Anyone ever tried something like this?