Gear indicator

[RickD]

Evening all, anyone have a link for a good quality gear indicator kit for 2000 vfr800, thinking healtech but any advice is much appreciated. I'm in the uk, so probably better uk site.

Thanks in advance. 

[gropula]

Healtech has great products and I use their speedohealer and quickshifter. However, the price premium on the gear indicator isn't justified when compared to ebay or AliExpress gear indicstors which are dirt cheap. I have a generic chinese one with "Honda" written on it. It was installed by the previous owner and it works just fine. 

[RickD]

Thanks for the reply, I'm actually now wondering if I should just ride the bike and get used to it without one, just back into biking after 20 odd years thought it might make things easier but never had one on any other bike.

[VeeEffArah]

Not had an aftermarket one until this VFR. My FJR1300 has it stock.

Will say that after riding the VFR with the gear indicator, I'll be adding to any bike that doesn't have one. Handy device for sure to keep me checking for 7th gear.

 

[bmart]

I've seen them on track bikes for years, but I usually just look down at the MPH/RPM...when they're aligned during normal riding, it is 4th gear on every bike I've ever owned. Little off, 3rd or 5th, depending on which way. No way to not know you're in 1st, 2nd, or 6th...at least for me. 

[TimC]

I never felt like I needed a gear indicator on my 6th gen.  Using my speed, rpms, and just the general sound of the engine, I could usually tell what gear I was in, especially at highway speeds.

 

But when I bought my current BMW, which did not include a tachometer, I had a very difficult time telling what gear I was in.  It didn't help that 6th gear is kind of short, so once I was on the interstate I kept trying to upshift to a non-existent 7th gear.  Later on, I added the OEM tachometer, which includes a gear indicator on its small LCD screen.  I like having it, but I wouldn't say it's a must-have.

[Gaz66]

Hi Rick.

 

Don't be ripped off with Healtech stuff, they're crazy overpriced & their gear indicators are mostly just repackage cheap chinesium units, Aliexpress gear indicators are about £20ish, never bothered with one on my 5th Gen, but had one on my Fazer 1000 for yrs, works mint, available in different coloured displays, I went with the green opton, they only display gear position while wheels are turning, as it references a signal from ignition pulse & from speedo, so you get no gear indication when bikes static, the destructions are pathetic too, you have to suss it out for yourself mostly, display's too bright for my liking, ok in daytime, come dusk it's annoying to be fair, just get a big green glow reflection inside the screen, I've considered sourcing some Led screen polarising film to play with, not got around to it as yet, don't ride at night anyway, just get pelted with mahoosive moths & alien bugs.

You can now get a tidy looking bar mounts for the display, they don't usually come with any mount at all, I made my own on the Fazer.

Give Aliexpress a look, also quite a bit cheaper than ebay on titanium stuff, titanium brake banjo bolts, hex head bolts, allen head bolts, stepped fairing bolts etc, I replaced all the visible external bolts on my 5th Gen with Titanium, dropped a few pounds off the bike too, got some more on order to replace the lower suspension linkage assembly.

Have fun matey 👍