As some of our North B-Ride riders are aware, my delightful '89 R100RT's speedometer went up the spout, with the mile odometer figure counting tenths of a mile and the trip meter having lunched out completely. The airheads site members' advice was the thing was too complicated for me to tackle unless I really knew what I was doing (I didn't/don't) and having checked with my buddy, Lee Marks, at European, he said there was a place in California that did repairs but after calling them, told me the price would be around $300 to fix it. Yeesh! (like the say, the cheapest part on a Beemer is the rider--thus the 'Yeesh!') Anyway, poking around Google and the Airheads club site I came up with another spot--in Austin, Texas that does speedo repairs...and contacted them. I was quoted, not a flat $300 rate, but a rate of $125 to $250, depending on what was required to fix the speedo... and not a month turnaround like the California place said, but a couple of weeks. So, off the speedo went to the Great State of Texas.
Sure enough, back it came in 2 weeks, for a repair cost of $150 (which included the cost of shipping the thing back to me via UssPuss....) Not bad at all! I got it back on the bike (which sat there in the garage smiling at me again as all was back aboard and copesetic). And sure enough, on the next run, the Speedo was behaving as it should and always had before. Great job on the part of Rick Borth and his folks at Overseas Speedometer!!!
Anyway, they not only fix bike Speedos, but car, truck, and you-name-it. Should you need some work on a speedometer, here's the information on the owner, phone numbers, URL, etc. They even have on their web-site a form to fill out and e-mail to them requesting either service or a quote.
Rick Borth
Overseas Speedometer
100 Wallis Drive
Austin, TX 78746
800-444-0292 / 512-329-8200
www.speedometer.com /
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If anyone out there has a misbehaving speedometer, for my money, this place does a great job.