Hey new guy here...

Just for a little background information I just traded someone this


for this




First thing first... Its a 2006 1000rr imported from Japan
(it has all the warning stickers in Japanese still)

The only issue Ive seen so far with the bike is the speedo and well everything in the display is in KPH and Celsius


I have tried pressing the 2 little (set and reset) buttons to get it to switch to MPH (I had an r6 before and Ive done this on accident)
But nothing works so far... so do I need to go to a dealer or something and have them do something with the computer inside it? Or get a new American made one?

 

Doesnt anybody know this... it should be fairly simple

 

Looks like it's time to learn the metric system. Sorry I don't have an answer for you but I just wanted to say that flip flops and cbr's go really well together.....lol.

 

I know on the american bikes you can switch it but I don't know about the jap ones.

 

Yeah I tried the reset button already... I guess Ill call Honda and find out, I also found out that my bike is limited to 190kph (118mph) So I need to get that fixed if I want to track the bike again.

 

There may not be a way to change the speedo since the bike was only intended to be for sale in Japan. you may have to buy a different speedometer.

Also, Im not sure on your bike, but some of the restricted bikes are a pretty big pain to convert. You could have to end up changing the exhaust, the intake, the ECU.... I don't think its electronically restricted.

Being a restricted bike... is it also restricted on power? Normally, there not only speed restricted, but power as well.

 

Join the modern age (and the rest of the world). Metric is the way forward. Give it another 25 years and even the most die hard Americans will be selling/buying bananas in kilos. Stay ahead of the crowd and keep the gauges.
And yeah, the flip flops are simply stunning. He heh!

 

Yeah yeah, I wore the flops not thinking when I drove the jeep to trade it, then I was stuck with them for the ride home... now I have my gloves, jacket, helmet and steel loe boots (need them for work anyway) so Im good.

Do you think just changing the speedo and ECU out with American (or British because I have HISS) would suffice?

 

I heard something similar back in grade school. They said that within 10 years everything in the U.S. would be converted to the metric system. That was over 40 years ago.

 

lol. Yeah, just deal with converting kmh in your head until all speed limits are converted to kmh. its only going to take 25 years....

Having work in Research and Devlopment that dealt with many different countries. I can tell you its not just America that is die hard in their ways. If we were, we wouldn't have converted to metric as much as we have. And, there wouldn't be a dozen different formats of prints, there would be one that every country can read, which by the way is being fought tooth and nail by other countries.

It always cracks me up when people say America is die hard in their ways. I've seen America bending over backwards to please other countries in so many different ways, for so long, its sickening. Comments like that are so far off base and just plain ridiculous.