There's an App for your Harley

 A Victoria BC company has developed an App for your Harley.

With the proprietary hardware plug your iPhone or iPod touch into the
diagnostic port of a 2001 or later Harley and after downloading the app,
you can monitor various bike functions on the screen.

Speedometer, Tachometer, Engine Temp, Gear indicator, Shift light,
Battery indicator and a bunch more.

Check it out
http://gaugeface.com/features

Now I already have enough crap on my handlebar, speakers, stereo head
unit and GPS, but this one is tempting me.

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You reckon?

<Puzzled> I just don't see the point, unless your bike has had all its
clocks wrecked and you can't afford to buy new ones, in which case as a
temporary fix, it has its merits.

I'd love to see a decent diagnostic app for problem-solving, and not
just for HDs. But this... it's just...

<waves hands vaguely>

Well, what does it actually *do*?

Heh. And it ought to have a "tassles needed" alert.


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 On May 24, 9:53 pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

Well, just off the top of my head, I would say that the ability to
display metric units (speedometer) might come in handy.  I mean, I can
convert from kph to mph in my head damn near instantaneously, but I
can't really go from mph to kph as fast, and having that option while
in Canada next month might be useful.

Also, the compass and altimeter functions would be nice.

 

I suppose so. I'm used to all speedo dials[1] having mph and kph
graduations, but evidently in the US it's different.

I am equally happy in kph and mph and can do the conversions instantly,
but that's only because I've been riding on the European continent for
decades. Again, I can see that in the US it might be different.


These are available on the iPhone anyway, aren't they? Obviously a GPS
app would the former: maybe the latter. I dunno.

I can admire the work that's gone into the app, but it strikes me that
it's a solution looking for a problem.

[1] The Ducati, oddly, is an exception. Mph only. It was discovered,
some years ago, that this is actually illegal under European law and
that, in theory, such Dukes didn't meet EU construction & use regs. The
authorities sort of shrugged and decided to forget about it, though all
Ducatis now have both graduations (if they use an analogue speedo).


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 On 24/05/2011 8:50 PM, tomorrow@erols.com wrote:

For those who do not have a full set of gauges, engine temp, tachometer
and battery voltage would all be handy to know.

I am not sure if it can read and store codes, but if not, that would be
a logical next step for the software. Also useful.

I have read you can plug a camera into this gadget and display the
picture on the screen. The graphic in the article shows the camera image
in the middle of the tachometer. Now if you could have the camera
mounted on the back of the bike, it would be one more way to monitor
vehicles approaching behind you.

Considering how simple it is to tap into the brain of the bike, combined
with the capability of smart phones, I am surprised no one has come up
with something like this before.

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