hey folks, I'm new to the forum as i'm about to purchase a f4i. i'm in canada and buying in the US. i know i can covert the speedo from miles to kilometers easily, but is it possible to change the odometer? i'm looking at a 2004 model...
thanks in advance!

 

I'm not sure if changing the speedometer also changes the way the odometer counts miles. You'd think it would change as well, but it's hard to say.

I'm of no help, lol.

 

the odometer will read according to whatever measure of speed you have selected. miles if in mph, kilometers if in kph. that would be pretty silly of honda to only have miles lol

 

Thanks guys, I figured as much, but had conflicting responses on another forum..

 

well the problem is that you went to another forum

i tried it on my bike just before i posted, so i can assure you 100% it works

 

if you hold down upper button on the dash, it will switch mph to kph and miles to km on the odo and viceversa. but why would you want mph and km on odometer?

 

THink about if you were Honda..wouldn't you want both options on your bike? Ok, look it at from this angle...if you only have mph or kph, you are restricting yourself to those countries that only use that particular type of ODometer. If you had the availability to have both options, you market (and possible sells) will increase

 

i know that if i was honda, i wouldn't let someone fool people when selling bikes with "low miles" showing people kph on speedo and miles on odo which would leave them in belief they buy a bike with 1.5x less mileage. i just think that you use metric or imperial. how can this breed of two live in your head? miles per hour , but kilometers you ran today?
i'm totally glad it does change (!) cause when i bought the bike i totally would be satisfied if in the country which uses only km/h i would be forced to know my speed in mph... the only thing that worries me is that the coolant temp isn't switchable and always stays in F and fahrenheits don't make sense to me... it just isn't logical to me that water boiling point is 212F , not just 100C...

 

Thanks for checking axsys, much appreciated!