UK clocks on Japanese import - odometer question

[Bobinator]

Hi there. I've got a '92 NC30 and the previous owner has fitted the UK clocks to it and adjusted it so the speedo reads true. The only problem is the odometer/mileometer still counts in km/h.

Is there any way I could fix this?

I've read things about a blue converter that you can just screw in the back, but that would require me putting in the old clocks and then adjusting them back to read in km. The previous owner also gave me the old Japanese clocks but I'd prefer if there was a solution for this without faffing about with fitting and adjusting the old clocks.

Many thanks for any help.

[Drunkn Munky]

Im pretty sure if you have UK clocks then the oddometer will read in MPH not KM. Its when you fit one of those blue KM to MPH converters on jap clocks that the speedo reads in MPH and the oddometer reads in KM, maybe you have jap clocks with some kind of MPH overlay fitted. And no i dont think there is a way of getting JAP clocks to count in miles instead of KM

[CMSMJ1]

As Munky says - if you have a bona fide UK clock then it has the internal gearing to read and display in miles.

If not...then put up with it!

[CRM]

as above, the previous has just refaced it. MPH clocks from a UK bike mileage is also in - well miles funnily enough.

[speedy231278]

One of the previous owners of my 35 fitted a decent MPH face to the speedo. Reads MPH as the main scale, but the odo still does KMs. It's not really much of an issue for me, although it would be nice to think it's only done 18000 rather than having been round the clock... lol

[Neosophist]

Hi there. I've got a '92 NC30 and the previous owner has fitted the UK clocks to it and adjusted it so the speedo reads true. The only problem is the odometer/mileometer still counts in km/h.

Is there any way I could fix this?

I've read things about a blue converter that you can just screw in the back, but that would require me putting in the old clocks and then adjusting them back to read in km. The previous owner also gave me the old Japanese clocks but I'd prefer if there was a solution for this without faffing about with fitting and adjusting the old clocks.

Many thanks for any help.

It is as above, buy a proper UK speedo if you can find one.





This is a re-face. You replace the face with this one and get MPH, nothing else needed. No convertors needed, but the odo reads in kmh.

If you had the original faced clockes (in kmh) you can buy a convertor that converts the odomoter and trip ometer to miles, not km! however, if your speedo has done 40,000km and you fit an mph convertor.. from that point on it will read in miles, so you wil have to work out the existing covered km and add it to the miles.. pain in the arse.


A UK clock is rarer and more expensive but reads in both.

[bikemonkey]

Don't I look handsome in the reflection off my rev counter

[Davez29]

Its when you fit one of those blue KM to MPH converters on jap clocks that the speedo reads in MPH and the oddometer reads in KM

mmm.. not too sure about that, I know my 29 has a blue converter and with my jap km clocks at marked 30kph its now doing 30mph and the odometer is deffo in miles as when I do a 60 miles run it states 60 and not the km equivelant. With Jap clocks and a mph overlay it would still read km on the odometer however.

[cbr400rrn]

Its when you fit one of those blue KM to MPH converters on jap clocks that the speedo reads in MPH and the oddometer reads in KM

mmm.. not too sure about that, I know my 29 has a blue converter and with my jap km clocks at marked 30kph its now doing 30mph and the odometer is deffo in miles as when I do a 60 miles run it states 60 and not the km equivelant.

+1

[thunderace]

The converters, blue or gold, make the clocks read in MPH both on the scale AND the odo, from the point at which it was fitted.