highly illegal... imoral etc etc ;) but just for the info...

[M1ke]

how would one go about winding back the km's on a bikes clock? Is there a quick easy way to do it? I have attempted (for experimental purposes only ) connecting a drill to the cable and it worked but slowly it was averaging out at about -1km per minute!

Is there some speedy way of doing it or is that about the only way?


thanks for any help with this theoretical question

[Scotty]

think thats the only way of doing it..
unless theres so way of actually getting to the dials.
oh i wouldnt use a drill. you might aswell just ride the thing.

and why would you want to clock up milege. most people want less....
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[G]

If the drill's on reverse setting it will reduce it.

/me wonders if it's possible to make something with a CD/Hard drive motor.... 7200rpm should be better than a drill, but not by much.

[M1ke]

[Robby]

that should do it G - drills only do about 4000 rpm.

dont know any more to do it.

[M1ke]

yes the drill has a reverse function. Its a pretty beasty drill (cost my dad 150 pounds) and spins pretty quickly but still its not have a very fast effect on the km on the clock.

I was just wondering if there was a sneaky reset button or something that i should know about lol

[Doddmaster]

You can get your head chopped off just for planning this!

[Zimma]

Oh dear lets all cry Fuck the law
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[Scooby]

Good point Zim, did you ever put the clocks back on the ZXR?
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[Scooby]

Good point Zim, did you ever put the clocks back on the ZXR?
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[Mr Lucky]

Zimma, we all do naughty law breaking things (hell its in our nature, we're bikers! ) but we shouldn't confuse fucking the law with fucking over our fellow bikers/bikers to be.

Newbie, the only reason why anyone would want to wind a clock back on a motorcycle is to falsify the miles for selling. Otherwise there is no point in doing it. You don't strike me as the kind of person to be dishonest, rip off and steal from another biker so I hope that you will take our word when we say that 'yes clocks can be wound back' and stop fiddling around with your mileage.

Be cool, leave your odometer alone...
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[Demonic69]

Yeah, that's just bein a nob-head.
Imagine if you bought a bike with 50k miles on and it only said it had 25k. When the thing blew up ur ass you'd know why it's illegal to do it
Leave it well alone
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[Zimma]

Quite frankly, if I was considering p/x a bike at a shop I would probably remove some miles... Have you seen how much difference it makes to how much a shop will give you? I probably wouldn't do it if i was gonna make a private sale, as the mileage doesn't make quite so much of a difference to the value.
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[Demonic69]

Yeah Zim, but what if they had the same idea?
It's not just illegal, it's immoral (not that my morals are very strict but you don't fuck with your own)
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[TiN]

Umm, actually, I would like to know how to wind the odo back 'cos I've just acquired a "new" speedo to replace the one that I've f*cked up...but my true reading is about 8200, whereas the "new" one is about 33000, so I'd like to think that I have a proper reason...

When I bought my bike (grey import), the odo was showing the KMs, but since I had a converter fitted I wanted it to truly reflect the mileage, so the dealer wound it back for me. They managed to do this and fit Datatag within a few hours, so there must be a much faster way (or they just connected it up to a CBR250 and revved it to 19k RPM ).
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[Mr Lucky]

Ok well why didn't you say so in the first place instead of being all dodgy about it.

You cannot wind back your clocks to show the mileage if you have bought a second hand pair. if you have bought a brand new set of clocks then they must start recording from '0'. Thats the legal point of view anyway.

The shop shouldn't have did what they did to the clocks either. That is WAY dodgy and very illegal. if they are prepared to do that for you then there is no way I would buy a bike from them. Goodness knows what the true mileages of the bikes they are selling are...
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[TiN]

Actually, it was newbie who was being dodgy, I've only just poked my head in

Fair point on the dealer-clocking thing, but I feel that I took a risk in buying an 8-year old grey import in the first place, so having the dealer wind the clock back (at my request, I might add) didn't really bother me and still doesn't bother me, to be honest.
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[Mr Lucky]

Sorry Tin I meant Newbie!

Newbie, stop being a dodgy bugger...
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[Kickstart]

Hi

It is probably easy if you pull the clocks to pieces, but dont do it

We have bought a 2nd hand speedo before (for the car) and had them rest the odometer to match the dead one in the car (pity the dead one was 50000 under the true mileage )

By the way, suspect that if you connect the speedo up with the drill reveresed then you stand a chance of damaging the speedo (ie, making it read a bit low / high)

All the best

Keith
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[TiN]

Actually, putting the drill in reverse will make the Odo read forwards i.e. increase the reading. And yes, I've been advised that rolling the odo back too fast can mis-align the numbers...
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[Robby]

yeh my dads car was once clocked (250,000 miles ago) and because of that the numbers aren't in a straight line.

[M1ke]

i got about 10km off it then gave up The drill was overheating

I didnt really think about it that much, just thought it would look better having a bike with less miles on it not that im selling it or anything.

A mate of mine who works on cars (training to be a mechanic) said that the drill thing would work as they do it all the time were he works aparently Probably have a big powerful thing to do it

I suspect my bike has done a hell of a lot more miles than indicated anyway, when i bought it the speedo cable was broken and i know for a fact ive ridden it for at least 1000km before getting it fixed, dunno about the previous owner.

cheers for the replies
newbie

[Wingchunal]

/me makes a note never to buy anything of newbie
EVER

[Ropehead]

i took 10,00K of my clocks last week

( bought a new clock from the breakers and it had 2 many miles on it u c )

the speedo cable isn't normaly phisicaly conected to the diles so i couldnt clock it using a drill, they brake the conection inside the speedo and use a magnet so the cabe only works ONE WAY and thats UP!

it whippen my appart been very CAREFULL not to brake em then dissconceted some of the gearing enabling me to reverse the miles But its hard to get them back togerther without showing when u had to SNAP bits apart, they normaly dont just screw apart makes it 2 easy to clock them u c

[M1ke]

hey i let you have it cheap