So how does everyone keep track of time when riding? I don't wear a watch, and I don't have a cellphone, but has anyone rigged up some sort of watch face or something to their bike?
Yeah, I wear a watch and I have a cell phone.
However, I have always wanted a clock on my bike. I'm too much of a perfectionist to just wrap a wrist watch around the handle bar. Eventually I'll get one of those nice waterproof adhesive ones and put it either on the dash or above the gauges. You can see some examples on the wiki.
Just ride until your backside says no more, then turn around and go home :o
But on a more serious not I figure I'll just to a watch on the handle bars if I really need to know the time + I always take my phone so I can check when I stop.
I'd suspect you could get a gps with a clock and some of the replacement/aftermarket speedo/tachs have clocks.
Get a cheap waterproof watch with a large display, easily found at WalMart for under $10. Remove the band and velcro it in place.
sigma bike speedo has a clock as well
I used to always just get a small digital clock that probably only cost $1-2, then I'd velcro it on. The velcro was important, because if it's as cheap of a clock as I used, you do best to take it with you when it rains or is too hot, as it would mess with the clock, but either way the cheap digital clock fit in pretty well with the cheap gauges on my old ex250. I'm sure it would do just as well on the GS. I miss how all the banks where I grew up used to have giant things outside that would flash back and forth between the temperature and time. Now I just never know what time or temperature it is since I don't have a cell phone anymore. I wouldn't mind a watch, but I got outbid on the Bad Religion watch that was on ebay the other week :bs: :technical: I would've felt like I was 17 again.
You just need a watch. Strap it to your handlebars and you're done. Should take you all of 5 seconds. Here's the best picture I've got online right now of mine. You can see it in the lower part of the picture.
(http://web.mac.com/fredzyda/motorcycle/IMG_7473.jpg)
This particular watch also beeps every hour, which at first was annoying, but it is usually audible while I'm riding, so I can at least tell when I'm on the hour without looking. This watch does have backlight for nighttime use, but the button is basically impossible to push with gloves on, so I never use it. I would like to figure some solution to this problem out at some point, but there are also a ton of streetlights around, so if I'm stopped at a stop light under a street light, there is usually sufficient light to read the watch. Perhaps when you're watch shopping, bring your gloves and find one that you can actually cause to light up while wearing them, that's what I would do if I were buying another watch...
This is what I use cost $9 at Wally World! (http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr264/Toogoofy317/P1000409.jpg)
I have to take it off every time I get off! Things walk off very quickly where I live. I had a cool round one but I forgot it one night. Next morning bike had been knocked over and the $3 clock was gone!
I have another one that is real nice waterproof that has a thermometer built in. I think that would be very valuable in Florida!
Mary
I either use the watch on my wrist, or my gps/mp3 player attached to my tank bag.
I just put a waterproof wrist watch around my left clip-on. Cheap, and easy, and works like a charm.
The high-end in-dash clock from the gs wiki:
http://www.bbburma.net/Casio.htm
QuoteThe high-end in-dash clock from the gs wiki:
http://www.bbburma.net/Casio.htm
I went with this but didn't use a digital watch because it blends a little bit better with dials. I chose to used a Timex watch because it takes a lickin'....
I found two nice one's at Pep Boy's One has thermometer, clock, and compass for $5.99 and another one is a good size Analogue but it is $12. I'll find the perfect one one day!
I try NOT to keep track of time when I'm riding. ;)
However, my SV has a clock built into the speedometer, along with other cool features. :laugh:
Quote from: GeeP on June 08, 2009, 05:10:15 PM
I try NOT to keep track of time when I'm riding. ;)
Haha me neither, but sometimes when you're headed to soccer practice, you'd like to know how many laps you're about to run for being late. :angel:
(http://home.comcast.net/~stykers/gstime.jpg)
When I leave for work I give myself 20 minutes so I get there in time, just like when I take the car. Otherwise I don't care what time it is when I'm riding my motorcycle. Everything else is secondary to the harmony of man and machine. I do have a cell if I really need to know, but I don't look until after I get wherever I'm going. I no longer wear a watch. Since I got a cell several years ago, it became obsolete. I never liked wearing them anyway, like jewelry in general.
If I were to velcro a cheap watch to the bike, that's the route I would take, but then again I do have an old Trek bike computer hanging around. If it's cheap, nothing will happen to it, unless you have Mary's luck. :kiss3:
Awww, Thanks Bill! Glad you love me! That's why I want to do a permanent mount set up because I'm really tired of having to be paranoid. Today when putting on Cafeboy's seat cowl I was watching like a paranoid schizophrenic making sure no one saw how it was mounted. Isn't that :bs: that I can't even have the piece of mind to have aftermarket stuff on my bike!
Mary
You could get a stem mount clock. Lots of places on the internet sell them. Id like one but im sure it would get stolen rather quickly.
(http://www.clocks4bikes.com/images/Stem_White_El_Clock.jpg)
It use to bother me when i first got the bike. Now I think having a clock on the dash would just be a distraction and cause me to drive a bit more aggressive as im always late.
I have a analog watch that i use. I bough ta different band that actually works great. wrapped it around the bar a couple of times so it stays snug and theres no metal bits rubbing against the bar. (http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss302/shiznizbiz/CASWJGPB.jpg)
Garmin GPS V.
QuoteGarmin GPS V.
An old 'un, but a good'un.