Miles or Kilometres?

Fabio · 11-10-2008 4:30pm #1

Lads just wondering is the odometer in most bikes a kiliometre system or mile system?

I've almost 6000 up on my Innova but don't know whether that means 6000km or miles!!!!

Duzzie · 11-10-2008 4:36pm

Fabio wrote: »

Lads just wondering is the odometer in most bikes a kiliometre system or mile system?

I've almost 6000 up on my Innova but don't know whether that means 6000km or miles!!!!

Should be what ever your speedometer reads. Mine has a digital display which will show either. The Oddometer adjusts to be in the same units as the Speedo.

Bang Bang · 11-10-2008 9:54pm

The Irish system changed from Miles to Kilometers on 20th January 2005. All new vehicles registered in the state from January 2005 should be in kilometers. Anything before that was in miles.
But do keep in mind that used vehicles imported into the state prior to 2005 may also be in kilometers, depending on what country they were imported from.

Lilliput69 · 12-10-2008 2:52pm

depends on the yr of the bike and country of origin, have a look at ur speedo

Greenmachine · 12-10-2008 9:29pm

Bang Bang wrote: »

The Irish system changed from Miles to Kilometers on 20th January 2005. All new vehicles registered in the state from January 2005 should be in kilometers. Anything before that was in miles.
But do keep in mind that used vehicles imported into the state prior to 2005 may also be in kilometers, depending on what country they were imported from.

If it is imported from Japan or more or less any country in Europe except the UK it will be in Kilometres.

Fabio · 13-10-2008 8:22pm

Mine is a 2004 Honda Innova and the speedo is MPH primarily with small KMH.

The odometer however is digital and it currently reads as soemthing like 5668.6 - that .6 is a decimal so the unit would be splity into ten parts such as you could with a kilometre...

Hmm....

Maybe I should find a sign that says "1 mile to..." and try it out!

Steffano2002 · 13-10-2008 10:15pm

If the Speedo is in MPH then the odometer should be in Miles.

robinph · 13-10-2008 11:40pm

They do tenths of a mile on MPH speedos too, they don't do fractions just for the last bit to be akward.

colm_c · 14-10-2008 9:38am

If the speedo is primarily in miles then so will the Odometer be.

Fabio · 15-10-2008 3:04pm

Cool lads thanks.

Miles or Kilometres?

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