Just got mine installed today. The SpeedoHealer folks made it easy, Yamaha did not. (More on that in a second...) The folks on
this link had some helpful tips, namely to grab the speed signal wire from under the tank. I, of course, didn't follow that advice and grabbed the wire at the ECU connector. I snagged the tach signal at the connector just aft of the battery. In both cases, I cut the wires and spliced-in an extra length of wire to give myself some working room. Yamaha had no service loop in these wires whatsoever. Very frustrating.
(I removed the pin from the ECU connector that was holding the speed wire. It's fairly easy in/out. That gave me some working room but I still needed to splice-in a service loop.) I've been soldering for some 30 years and I'm pretty confident my work will hold together. But I still hated having to cut into those bundles/wires. Grrrrr.... I probably spent a full hour tearing the bike down far enough to get the work done and another hour, hour-and-a-half doing the cutting/splicing/soldering. By the time it was "learned" and ready to ride, I probably had 3+ hours into it.
The GIPro works pretty well and in my case, the first time -- WOO-HOO!! As mentioned somewhere else, The SuperTen showed an ABS error light and a check engine light after the install. I knew that was coming but I thought the lights would extinguish after I turned the bike off, then back on again. They did not, which left my heart misfiring a bit. However, I took it out for a spin and the lights sorted themselves out after a couple hundred yards. All is now well -- and have been for a couple rides. I assume it will stay that way.
Once the GIPro has "learned" the bike's behavior, it works pretty darned well. It takes it a half-second or so to calculate the gear after a shift, which is negligible time. The GIPro can get (briefly) confused during a shift, usually just the moments spent between gears. For example, i was shifting from 3rd to 4th and the GIPro displayed '5' for about a half-second, then it sorted itself out. From what I've seen, once in-gear and rolling, it
always displays the correct gear number within one second.
I got this farkle because I had a gear indicator on my BMW K1200RS and I
loved it. I hate trying to shift into 7th gear or fumbling around for 2nd to make a corner. The GIPro fixes both of those for me. (And, yes, I tried the 1x and 2x speedo/tach trick to determine 2nd and 6th gear. I was OK with that but I prefer to leave the math at work...)
Would I recommend the GIPro for the SuperTen? Yes, but only if the installer is comfortable hacking thru -- and into! -- those wire bundles. Yamaha did us no favors by forgoing service loops and (even worse) by not providing a simple way to just plug in a device like this. I also installed a GIPro-DS into my wife's Wee-Strom today. It plugged right into the diagnostics connector. Easy peasy! It took me longer to reattach the SuperTen's bodywork than it did to perform the entire install on the Wee-Strom. (Hey, Yamaha, are you taking notes?) That said, the GIPro works
great and I'm glad I did it!
TCM
