Bicycle speedometers

[Alan]

I've been using a bicycle speedometer on the Box Saloon for years now. Halfords cheapest, magnet on the rear wheel and wire connections. It works really well. I need one for the Chummy and now I notice they do wireless ones.  Has anyone tried this and do they work? Or is there too much metal around so the signal gets lost?

[Reckless Rat]

I've been using a bicycle speedometer on the Box Saloon for years now. Halfords cheapest, magnet on the rear wheel and wire connections. It works really well. I need one for the Chummy and now I notice they do wireless ones.  Has anyone tried this and do they work? Or is there too much metal around so the signal gets lost?

I bought one for the RP from that well known auction site. The instructions were in chinese script. I ended up throwing it away because it was rubbish.

The problem with it was:
a difficult to locate the sensor and the pick up on the wheel sufficiently close together
b range of the transponder was roughly 2'6"...
c it didn't work anyway

Caveat emptor!

[Stumpi]

I have seen a HUD gps speedo in action recently [£20 from e-bay] and it seems to work OK .Easily transferred to different vehicles my friend use's it on his boat and a variety of vintage cars.
Andy

[Alan Ashton]

I have seen a HUD gps speedo in action recently [£20 from e-bay] and it seems to work OK .Easily transferred to different vehicles my friend use's it on his boat and a variety of vintage cars.
Andy

I've been using a HUD speedo on my KIA for two years now, it's brilliant. It's 12 volt though.
Alan

[Mark McKibbin]

I use a wired bicycle speedo on my veteran car and it works great, I did have to lengthen the wire with a bit of shielded audio wire so it was a bit of mucking around.  The advantage is the battery lasts for years.  I have had no luck with wireless.

On my Lambda I use a Garmin Edge 200 which is a GPS type bicycle speedo  the problem is it will go flat in about 10 hours so you have to remember to charge it before use or do what I have done and hard wire it. The advantage with hard wiring is that it will light up at night.

I have traveled around Europe like this and it has not been nicked as it is hard to see from outside, it may be a bit more obvious in a tourer!

[Roger J]

Hope this is not a dumb question but I was put off buying one of the many Head Up Display gps speedometers because I imagined they have lateral inversion of the display and couldn't be read directly..That's assuming HUD cannot be made to work with a vertical windscreen. perhaps they have a mode switch for direct viewing ? Any advice from a user ?

[BobH]

I purchased a HUD which I find excellent, The display has 3 modes projected to the windscreen, Normal and Inverted (if you mount upside down). Well recommended.

[Alan]

Sounds good but will they work off 6v electrics?

[Ruairidh Dunford]

Alan,

Just thinking around your request and wonder if you may already have all the equipment you need.

I have been using a free Sat. Nav. app on my phone for a number of years now.

It runs on both Apple and Android phones etc. it shows accurate speed and has a trip which can be reset - it has no wires and can be transferred into any car I am driving.  A couple of screen shots for you to see...

   

   

[Ian Williams]

Alan, if the don't work on 6V you could probably use one of those little step up voltage converters, small and cheap.