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Hi,
I'm new of this forum, and i write for italy.

I've a little problem with my R1150R: yesterday the clock has began to turn without reasons.
Have you ever heard such a probem?

I tried to take to pieces but i was not able.
Can you tell my how i can solve this problem?

Another question: Do you know where i can find the user manual of the motorbike?

Thank you very much for you kindness!!!

ALE

I don't know what is wrong with your clock, but my guess is that one of the programming buttons got jammed some how, so you might fiddle with them. Good luck

G'day ALE

You do know that the little black button at the rear of the gauges moves the clock..either push,push to move slow or hold down and it moves fast.

Could the button be jammed?...have you tried tapping it..(the black button).

As far as service manuals go...there are a few out there...I have the new edition of the Haynes book...it seems very good.

Here's a pic of it.

DJ

DJ Downunder wrote:G'day ALE

You do know that the little black button at the rear of the gauges moves the clock..either push,push to move slow or hold down and it moves fast.

Could the button be jammed?...have you tried tapping it..(the black button).

As far as service manuals go...there are a few out there...I have the new edition of the Haynes book...it seems very good.

Here's a pic of it.

DJ

Looks like you removed the black canister from under your seat. Did this have any impact on performance, or anything else?

Down under we don't have them at all..different country's have different laws..notice we also don't have those side reflectors on the front forks.

DJ

The clock on my R acts wierd.

I finally caught mine running counter-clockwise the other day. I was chasing some friends down a fun road, in the midst of a high-speed pass of a car, when I looked down to check my speed and saw the clock's minute hand running rapidly backward. It reversed 40 minutes worth. On another pass, I watched as it ticked backward about two minutes. Yesterday it lost two hours.

I had seen evidence at times in the past that the clock surely must have run backwards, since too much time had been lost for it to merely have stopped. It will run reliably for a month or so, then act freaky.

(Slight highjack)

gelbe Kulter wrote:The clock on my R acts wierd.

I finally caught mine running counter-clockwise the other day..... and saw the clock's minute hand running rapidly backward.....reversed 40 minutes worth.....ticked backward about two minutes.......lost two hours.

Did you feel any younger?

gelbe Kulter wrote:The clock on my R acts wierd.

I finally caught mine running counter-clockwise the other day. I was chasing some friends down a fun road, in the midst of a high-speed pass of a car, when I looked down to check my speed and saw the clock's minute hand running rapidly backward. It reversed 40 minutes worth. On another pass, I watched as it ticked backward about two minutes. Yesterday it lost two hours.

I had seen evidence at times in the past that the clock surely must have run backwards, since too much time had been lost for it to merely have stopped. It will run reliably for a month or so, then act freaky.

Obviously, you're going so fast that you're reversing time. See: Star Trek 4.

Wouldn't it be nice if 100 mph was fast enough for relativistic effects? We'd all be much younger. Long airline flights would suddenly be worth the bother. Too bad my watch didn't take the trip back in time along with the dashboard clock.

I looked down to check my speed and saw the clock's minute hand running rapidly backward.

Rats! Mattpie beat me to the Star Trek reference!

gelbe Kulter wrote:Wouldn't it be nice if 100 mph was fast enough for relativistic effects? We'd all be much younger. Long airline flights would suddenly be worth the bother. Too bad my watch didn't take the trip back in time along with the dashboard clock.

Wouldn't you get older when you flew East though ? I know I always feel older when I take a 3 hour flight and get there 5 hours later.
Oop's, serious highjack.

When we fly to the US from down under we get there the day before we left...how fast is that...

DJ

Not only Star Trek....Superman the movie....Chris Reeves got really 'miffed' when his Lois dies eating dirt in her car....he flies so fast that he reverses the gravitational pull of the earth thus reversing time....*



Let us know what you figure out with your clock.





* has absolutely no technical merit

When I flew back from Australia it took 2 fridays and a saturday.
I guess that's where DJ's day went

I used to notice my clock spinning in reverse for the first couple of years. Usually when I was riding hard. It stopped doing it around the time I removed the muffler and ran with only the cat. Can't see how the two would be related.

I tried to get it fixed under warranty but they couldnt repeat the fault. I just learned to live with it.

It could be worse - the engine could start running backwards all of a sudden. Then where would you be????



Tom

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~lonergans/

cunningly, my clock last week started to show the right time for the first time since October