Pet Peeves

[pteppic]

Why couldn't Yamaha (or Suzuki or Honda, etc.) spend an extra dollar on an accurate clock chip? My last 3 bikes, including this one, have had crappy, inaccurate clocks. They have good injector chips, good exhaust chips, good ABS chips, but the clocks aren't worth the real estate on the dash. End of rant.

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[MikeBear]

I put Casio Pathfinder on Garmin bike mount. I am very TechTarded, so no pictures to follow. Sorry.

 

[Dallara]

Why couldn't Yamaha (or Suzuki or Honda, etc.) spend an extra dollar on an accurate clock chip? My last 3 bikes, including this one, have had crappy, inaccurate clocks. They have good injector chips, good exhaust chips, good ABS chips, but the clocks aren't worth the real estate on the dash. End of rant.

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Now that's weird... Never heard of that one.

Last time I touched the clock on my Super Tenere was back when we went off Daylight Savings Time, but your post got me curious. Both the watches I regularly wear are solar-powered "atomic" ones, as in they set themselves via radio signal by the US NIST/USNO Atomic Clock in Boulder, CO, so they stay pretty accurate. These are the watches I set my various bikes' clocks, so I just took both of them out to the garage (they are both in perfect sync, BTW, to the second) and checked the Super Tenere's clock...

As I said, I haven't touched it since November when the time changed - and it was only about 20 seconds *fast* compared to the two watches.

Pretty damn accurate if you ask me, gaining only 20 seconds in 4 months. After all, that's within about a minute per year. Good enough for me! ::003::

Dallara




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[GrahamD]

Why couldn't Yamaha (or Suzuki or Honda, etc.) spend an extra dollar on an accurate clock chip? My last 3 bikes, including this one, have had crappy, inaccurate clocks. They have good injector chips, good exhaust chips, good ABS chips, but the clocks aren't worth the real estate on the dash. End of rant.

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But how does the accuracy compare to the SAMSUNG-SGH-I997?

 

[Kelvininin]

I think may you should slow down... Your traveling too fast. The theory of relativity applies to near the speed of light motorcycles as well. ::021::

 

[Don in Lodi]

Mine isn't off from the last time I touched it either. March 10th I get to touch it again.

 

[ThatsLife]

I'm a procrastinator so accurate clocks are very important to me. ::024::

I don't have a problem with mine. My previous Suzuki bikes didn't either that I noticed.

Strange. That would drive me nuts though.

 

[Rasher]

I don't have a problem. We set clocks forward and back for daylight savings twice a year. I'm whithin 2 or 3 minutes of accurate at 6 months.

::026::

Not the end of the world if it went a minute or so out in between, not like I am running covert military missions on the damn thing.

 

[markjenn]

Eight posts in this thread and we still don't know if your clock is off 1 min a year or 1 min a day. The devil is in the details. If the former, then you're nitpicking and if the latter you have a legitimate beef and can probably get Yamaha to replace the instrument cluster.

Mine is off a few minutes every six months or so. I consider this within tolerances and acceptable.

- Mark

 

[Buelligan]

well heck, mine is off by an hour, WTF? It was right on before daylight savings time...

 

[GrahamD]

Mine has GAINED 1 minute over 18 months. That's accurate to within +0.000126756% approximately

In fact I have never touched the clock. It was right enough when I bought it and it's right enough now.

I can add one to the first digit for daylight savings. It's a special talent of mine.

But generally when I am riding all I care about is, light o'clock, hungry o'clock, thirsty o'clock, sore ass o'clock, getting low on fuel o'clock and dark o'clock. That's accurate enough for me usually.

 

[Poohbear]

Who needs to know the time when you're out on your bike? :-\

 

[scott123007]

Maybe he really didn't really mean his clock. It's everything else in that cluster that's full of s#$t.

 

[thfraser]

I used to have a car that would gain a minute a week. But on the S10, I haven't noticed any issues. But then, of course, I have a BLUE one. So I'm in better company anyways!! ::021::

 

[RED CAT]

Maybe fiddling with the buttons you accidentley pushed the clock buttons. Mine is accurate. For pet peeves I find the non ability to shift TC while on the fly a real pain. Gear indicator would be nice. Maybe an ABS button. An accurate speedo would turn my crank more than an accurate clock. ::001::

 

[Don in Lodi]

Hey, we can air our own too? Cool; Fly by Wire throttle and no cruise?? ::26::

And of course, there's always...

::021::

 

[BaldKnob]

I try not to look at the clock while riding so non-issue. 2nd RED CAT about the speedo, THAT is annoying.

 

[Kelvininin]

Hey, we can air our own too? Cool; Fly by Wire throttle and no cruise?? ::26::

And of course, there's always...

::021::

I am on board with that one...

 

[snakebitten]

Pet Peeves

I can add one to the first digit for daylight savings. It's a special talent of mine.

But generally when I am riding all I care about is, light o'clock, hungry o'clock, thirsty o'clock, sore ass o'clock, getting low on fuel o'clock and dark o'clock. That's accurate enough for me usually.

A man after my own heart.

Once I'm FREE from man's digit driven schedule-clock, and I'm riding the iron horse, keeping "time" is on my terms. That's the point, isn't it?

 

[MeefZah]

Maybe he really didn't really mean his clock. It's everything else in that cluster that's full of s#$t.

No doubt... speedo, odo, temperature, fuel guage...

The clock is the one thing that actually works correctly.