I just rolled over 200,000 km on my 2003 ST1300.
I noticed this morning that my bike odometer (not trip meter) has reset. I now have 357 km on my bike odometer.
Have any of you long milers had this happen (at 200,00 KM or 120,000 Miles)?
Are ST1300 odometers set up to reset after a certain number of mile??
IIRC the readout on the dash only has room for a "1" in the hundred thousand place, so 199,999 is the max out can display. It doesn't matter if it is km or miles. So us "standard" riders have an advantage that we can go 200k miles to your 200k km before the reset. Honestly, IMHO, that is the ONLY advantage we have over metric users.
I think the metric system is FAR superior in every aspect than our system of measurement. We have to memorize tons of numbers to convert...how many tablespoons in an ounce (needed that yesterday), how many feet in a mile, and which socket size is just smaller than 11/16".
What makes it worse is we "flirt" worth the metric system, as our law enforcement uses grams to measure drugs, our bottling companies often use liters, and our runners measure races in meters/kilometers.
I'd love for us (U.S.) to convert to metric, as conversion (mathematically speaking) ON a base-10 scale is so easy. But financially speaking conversion TO it would be insanely expensive...car dashes, road markers, speed limit signs, old maps, etc. would all be be outdated.
Anyway, sorry for the rant, but congrats on the 200k km badge!
BTW, can't the dash toggle between measurements? I wonder what would happen if you switched the dash computer to standard...wouldn't it read 120,000ish miles as opposed to, say, a few km?