I'll Ride Again

Sidewinder Jerry

Sidewinder Jerry

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Well after a year of being unable to ride; I was able to ride the Sidewinder again. There was no lower back pain. However several of my other muscles will have to get back use to riding. Which is why today was a short ride. It felt very liberating to feel the openness of riding the Sidewinder.

I did some upgrades to the Sidewinder. I installed a Timorn tachometer/hour counter. The nice big letters are easy to see.

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I also put on new front/rear signal lights. The old ones were 75 lumens and these are a 120 lumens. The really cool thing is they were cheaper than the old set. Of course modifications had to be made to the mounting supports. Sorry, I'm on a fixed income and can't afford to put my trust into a rubber band thingie to keep the lights attached to the bike. So I took out the rotary tool, heat gun, Xacto knife set and JB weld epoxy; then made what I need out of mounting brackets from both kits. Having the right tools along with the knowledge of how to use them opens up a world of possibilities for a builder.

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I just got the yooreal multi tach/temp/ hour meter on Amazon for 12$ as a used but new deal and I'm not sure how to calibrate it because I don't have anything else to measure the RPM other than an audio analyzer that I got off of Play store and it seems to be close but I'm still not sure... I guess I could download a couple more audio analyzers and see if they match in the readings.
 
Wevil Kenevil said:
I just got the yooreal multi tach/temp/ hour meter on Amazon for 12$ as a used but new deal and I'm not sure how to calibrate it because I don't have anything else to measure the RPM other than an audio analyzer that I got off of Play store and it seems to be close but I'm still not sure... I guess I could download a couple more audio analyzers and see if they match in the readings.
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Doesn't it automatically sense the RPMs from the spark plug wire??
I've used other tachs similar to that before... There's not much to them as far as setting them up.
 
Yes and the temperature sensors I have sandwiched between two nickels and shoved in the side of my CNC HP head.

But I have no way to tell if the RPMs that are being read are proper.
 
Thank you wrench. I found all the settings and stuff. My question was , How do I check to make sure what the display says is correct? Answer: By checking it with another another tach, which I did with help from 2 different apps from play store.

They are acoustically driven so I was a little bit skeptical but after I ran the apps and all three came up with pretty much the same data I was comfortable with my results. In case anybody is interested the name of the apps are... Engine sound analyzer rpm calc , rpm and speed tachometer.

Not super precise but they were all within 1-2 hundred rpm of each other. And actually the tach fell directly in between the two.

And the setting you are speaking of is by factory default set to 2t 1 cylinder and goes on from there. Which makes sense because they are marketed as 2 stroke small engine tachs..
 
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