Gear Indicator/shift Light Gimmick or Useful

So is a gear indicator shift light useful or just a gimmick and if you use one which do you prefer or is best value?

If you're watching a gear indicator/shift light, you're not watching the track.

Read Keith Code's book on Attension Budget and it'll make sense. if you have £10 worth of attension, you don't want to be spending a quid of it on a gear indicator. that quid is far better spent concentrating on traction or track position or braking or... well. you get the idea.

And ask yourself.. how will it make you faster?

C

Must admit I agree with you I, and I seriously doubt if there is a product to make me faster [original cptain slow].
but I was thinking of fitting the acumen PD8 as i do not have a tacho fitted and it might give me some indication of rpm for noise tests and to stop me hitting the rev limiter till i get used to the bike.

Hello matey,

it's very common especially during a race to over rev the SV. It's suprising how low down the best power and torque are!
We race quite alot at East Fortune and there's a place on the circuit where you have to short shift coming out of Railway heading for the first Esses and it always amazes me how well the bike pulls!!

If you have no tacho fitted then a shift light would be a good idea. But it's just a case of getting used to the engine sound for the right rpm-cos even if you have a tacho you dont have much time to watch it!!

Best of luck

TC252

But it's just a case of getting used to the engine sound for the right rpm-cos even if you have a tacho you dont have much time to watch it!!

+1

[Red Herring]

I have to disagree. Generally at the time when a tacho is useful, ie: when trying to time a gear change just right so that you stay in the best rev range, is when you are dragging out of a corner onto a straight and that's when your face is buried in the screen with the dial right in front of you, and it's dead easy to watch.

A gear indicator can also be useful, especially when braking at the end of a long straight into a slow corner when you are coming down several gears. The only problem is the cheap ones are not very effective as they take to long to register and by the time they have worked out and displayed the gear it's usually already pretty obvious to the rider....