Miles or KM

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  1. notsogreen

    notsogreen New Member

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    Guys

    Am going over to Spain in September on the bike. I know on my old Triumph you can change the speedo to KM from miles.

    Is this still the case on the Blade ?/

    I Thank you

    :D
     
    #1 notsogreen, Jun 23, 2013
  2. And7rp2

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    Page 39 of the owners manual if its an 08 - 11 blade, good luck understanding it tho ! Lol
     
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  3. sinewave

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    Tiz dead easy on the 12+ models however on my recent trip to southern Ireland I got sick of KM within 5 hours and switched back to MPH so I knew what I was doing in 'Real Money'! :D
     
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  4. Garyb

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    Yeah mate, the blade is equipped to flick from mph to km.
    A little secret tip here for you here, not many know this but also in set up mode, you can select speed for a country, which in your case will be Spain and it will display your speed in Spanish. How cools that ;)
     
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    ..............yeah dead cool until you want to change back and then all instructions are in Spanish! :eek:
     
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  6. Garyb

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    Strike 1
     
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    Very handy for the clock though, you must agree :)
     
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    It's that easy to do on my 05 that I did it by mistake while setting my clock on wed!
     
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  9. Pete H

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    image.jpg Que?
     
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  10. notsogreen

    notsogreen New Member

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    LOL awesome........................

    Luckily got a 12. So all good to go Gary mate......................:D
     
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    Mint, you can have the gear indicator in Spanish too. ;)






    Strike 2
     
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  12. Remal

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    Every time i've been to Europe I have never felt the need to change ffrom MPH to KPH if I was able to. 50KPh - 30MPH - 80KPH -50MPH, 90 -55mph 130KPH Mway is 81MPH

    So I always think 50KPH town 130KPH Mway and the rest just be careful

    never been a issue. I did Spain 2 years ago and had a bit of a brain freeze and was doing MPH where it was KPH. made for some good miles being covered ;)
     
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  13. Pete H

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    I usually just set the GPS to show me kph and leave the bike on proper units of measurement. Only really need it for the towns though, the bit that gets me is when does it constitute rain for the differing speed limits to apply on some roads, is it a full on rainstorm, a brief shower, or that fine stuff that wets you right through?
     
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