Hi all,
Haven't posted for a while (still been around though) but need some advice. Yeah, yeah, I know, only comes to see us when he wants something.....
Anyway. Like some of you, I am constantly trying to change into seventh gear. I know I haven't got one. My left foot knows I haven't got one. My brain (apparently) knows I haven't got one. Even the check-the-rev-counter-ah-yes-I'm-deffinitely-in-6th check says there's no need to change up. Yet despite all of the above, I find myself trying. Just in case. Every bloody time.
One day, there's going to be a seventh gear. That'll freak me out.
My brother always finds this hilarious. He annoyingly has a GPI. He also has a Gixxer, so he isn't able to count above three. So he decides to buy me a GPI kit for my birthday (bless him). Unfortunately it's one of those cheapo magnet and two hall sensor types.
This in itself isn't too much of a problem (they generally work OK-ish). The problem is that the Wee's gear lever is rather inconveniently hanging in the middle of nowhere, and not near anything handy to stick the hall sensors on to.
Apart from the obvious "why not chuck it away and get one that plugs into the annoyingly already installed but only used for fuel mapping sensor wires", they are (a) stupidly expensive for what they are, and (b) my bro' would probably be a bit miffed.
I was planning to make a custom one myself as part of an elaborate Raspberry Pi / LCD screen onboard computer thingy (must come up with a better title for it), but that's a project for another day. A sunny one. That's about a fortnight long.
So my hugely unnecessarily long question boils down to this:
Has anyone fitted a hall-sensor type GPI to a Wee, and if so how/where did you mount the magnet and hall sensors?
Any pointers/advice/pictures/abuse welcome.
Cheers,
Steve.
