Odo; miles to km?

[Irish ek]

Took delivery of my first bike 7 days ago from a kwaker dealer in the uk. Now as its a uk bike, the odometer is obviously in miles. Is it possible to change this to km/h for here in ireland?! If so how?

Does this affect anything but the miles to km reading? I heard that the fuel gauge gets affected?!

[timwilky]

Now you learn the strangest things here.

Paddy land has gone continental. I never knew that.

I hate stuff in litre, kg prices. Never would cope with metre measurements.

It is all a con to charge more. If we still put £/gallon on the forecourt we would have packed in using petrol. Anyway wtf is km/h, why can you not use miles/hour like the civilised world?

[warmshed]

You can pick up KPH clocks on ebay, there are some curvy ones for sale at about £45-£60 or look on ebay worldwide. Might be cheaper in the end and you can recoup your money selling the MPH ones.

[maxinc]

I read this some time ago in the pointy manual and I think if you press and hold the ADJ button for 5-10 seconds will change from MPH to KMPH.

@tim, doing 100km/h seems faster than 60mph :)) And the metric system makes more sense than the imperial system because it is always divided / multiplied by 10 rather than fractions. Switching from one system to the other however is very difficult once your brain is set to calculate a certain way.

[Luckypants]

If it has electronic clocks then you can probably just switch it over to KPH easily enough. As you bought from a dealer I assume you got the owners manual? RTFM and you will find out how :D

Alternatively tell us model and year then no doubt there will be someone on here knows how to do it.

EDIT: Oooops I read the OP to say it was a Kwack he had bought.... I think Maxinc is on the money, but do a search as this question was asked for me while abroad, the answer is on here somewhere!

[Luckypants]

Anyway wtf is km/h, why can you not use miles/hour like the civilised world?

How else do you see 230 on the clocks? :smt077

[SoulKiss]

I read this some time ago in the pointy manual and I think if you press and hold the ADJ button for 5-10 seconds will change from MPH to KMPH.

@tim, doing 100km/h seems faster than 60mph :)) And the metric system makes more sense than the imperial system because it is always divided / multiplied by 10 rather than fractions. Switching from one system to the other however is very difficult once your brain is set to calculate a certain way.

+1 this works, just hold down the right-hand button until it changes.

I can confirm this as I did it by mistake trying to remember how to adjust the time on the clock when the clocks went forwards :)

[timwilky]

Yeah but I know this is a total derail

A kilometer may have scientific basis, but it is an arbitory distance measurement, why not use strides, or leaps or how far one can pee as a measurement of distance. Seems to be done for the sake of "standardisation".

As for weight. come on I still buy my sweets by the quarter on my way to the footy of a saturday. I am of a certain age, professionally I am an engineer and think in SI units. But I visualise in imperial. forget metres I measure in feet/inches. I drink in pints etc.

This will start to get silly when will they want to divide time so there are 10 hours to the day, 100 minutes to the hour and 100 seconds to the minute.

In the computer industry we have used hexidecimal for decades, us english were comfortable using base 16 as that was the basis of pounds/ounces. base 8 for bytes and base 4 for nibbles and base 2 in binary. why must everything be base 10.

Especially mathematicians who use natural logs, or even logs to any base etc. It is unnatural in the real world to be obsessed by 10

My LSD was 12d = 1s, 20s = £1, perfectly simple. we change and get robbed. Children at school no longer need to think.

[matt_rehm_hext]

Back on track....

Just hold down the adj button as it has already been said and the units will change.

[Irish ek]

Jasus lads sorry. I didnt even mention what bike it was. Its a 2005 sv650s. Pointy model so has the digital clocks. Now im not overly bothered about this at all as my cat was imported from the uk 2 years ago and therefore reads in miles as well. The only reason i ask is that when i turn on the ignition and everything lights up on screen both miles and kilometres flash on the dash. Then km's disappears and miles stays. Thats whats leading me to think i can change it over. Just not sure how! But as i sed before, bot overly bothered as im used to it with the car.

Also it was bought from a kwak dealer and has all original paperwork etc. Had a look it in thr handbook but cant seem to find it!

[aaron020873]

Back on track....

Just hold down the adj button as it has already been said and the units will change.



:winner:

[Irish ek]

:winner:

Excellent. Will do! Just one question, by holding down the adj button it changes between miles and km. But does the fuel level change in anyway?! Ie, if the fuel light came on at 10 miles before, will it now come on at 16km?! Is it that simple? Or will the odo be in km but the fuel level still be measuring in miles left?!

[SoulKiss]

Excellent. Will do! Just one question, by holding down the adj button it changes between miles and km. But does the fuel level change in anyway?! Ie, if the fuel light came on at 10 miles before, will it now come on at 16km?! Is it that simple? Or will the odo be in km but the fuel level still be measuring in miles left?!

Fuel level is based on a float/switch in the tank.

Its only co-incidence (or maybe placement) that has it come on at 10 miles before.

There is NO direct connection between distance done and the fuel gauge.

[Irish ek]

I was only using the 10 miles as a for example, but thanks! So it dosent matter what mileage it comes on at, it comes on when it gets below a certain level?! Sorted so. Thanks for the replies guys!

[vardypeeps]

This is a perfect find. Going to Germany this year and knew that this could be done somehow and now I know :)

[maxinc]

The way I know it is that it will start flashing at around 4l and then steady when aprox. 1l is left.