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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MECHANICAL & TECHNICAL => Topic started by: Big Bo on April 14, 2005, 01:31:11 AM

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: Big Bo on April 14, 2005, 01:31:11 AM

Who has installed the Speedo Healer? How difficult was the install? Are you happy with the SH?

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: Red01 on April 14, 2005, 01:51:02 AM

http://www.speedohealer.com/

Never heard of it before, but it sounds like it's much better than the "Yellow Box" (http://www.blackrobotics.com/yb_home.htm)

From the looks of the site, installation is pretty simple. Unplug the speedo sensor from the harness, plug in the SH unti jumper in between the two plugs and you're done. (Short of the calibration part.)

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: ray nielsen on April 14, 2005, 11:19:14 AM

Or you can go up one tooth on the countershaft sprocket and fit a 170/60-17 rear tire and bring the speedometer to less than a 1% error.  

The odometer is now off by about 5%, but since the same electrical signal is used for both I don't see any easy cure for this error.

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: DaveG on April 14, 2005, 11:41:35 AM

seems to me that even though the speedo is 10% over the odo is spot on

Title: Bandit Speedo
Post by: 00Bandit Rider on April 14, 2005, 07:12:46 PM

Phoo on it get a Sigma 800 bicycle speedo . this little sucker is adjustable in mm of wheel circumference to correct the readout IT GOES TO 183 MPH & reads miles to 1/100's  Also has a clock & an average speed calulator. It was $25 plus $3 shipping.On my bandit it's mounted to the  handlebar in the center. Mine indicates off a radio shack rare earth
magnet , I drilled the rt front disc carrier & glued it in. the sender is
mounted on a piece of alum  behind the bottom caliper bolt & painted black--only thing that sows is the wire taped to the brake line./

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: Red01 on April 14, 2005, 08:18:53 PM

While the Sigma is a much cheaper alternative you can't read it in the dark - unless you add some kind of light on your own. What Sigma ought to do is come up with a 12v lighted unit since they are popular add-ons for the m/c community.

AFAIK, the Yellow Box will correct your speedo at the expense of making the odo off, according to the speedohealer site, their product is able to correct the speedo and leave the odo alone.

Title: Speedo Healer
Post by: Johnny Strommer on April 16, 2005, 06:35:33 PM

Easy to install and program.  You tap into the wires leading from the countershaft sensor to the speedometer box.  It takes about an hour to do it right, then another 1.2 hour to set-up the controls.

You need to know exactly how far off the bike is before you change the sprocket, so you can add this error to the known error of the change.