I love reading stories about travel, especially when the author knows how to write. Less an instruction manual, more of an escape. Here's a link to a great motorcycle road trip this guy did across country with his kid on the back.
From one of his posts: "I abbreviated/eliminated my instrument cluster when my speedo broke. The logic being that I had not been pulled over for speeding since 1987 and even then I had a speedo so it didn't help. Bye Bye speedo. Tach who needs a tack it is a Honda twist the handle until the noise quits getting higher there is your redline. A side benefit of this arrangement was that without a temp. gauge it would not overheat. I would have liked to have kept the gas gauge but my mallot was not that precise."
Detroit to San Diego, Zen and the art of motorcycle negligence, - ADVrider
From one of his posts: "I abbreviated/eliminated my instrument cluster when my speedo broke. The logic being that I had not been pulled over for speeding since 1987 and even then I had a speedo so it didn't help. Bye Bye speedo. Tach who needs a tack it is a Honda twist the handle until the noise quits getting higher there is your redline. A side benefit of this arrangement was that without a temp. gauge it would not overheat. I would have liked to have kept the gas gauge but my mallot was not that precise."
Detroit to San Diego, Zen and the art of motorcycle negligence, - ADVrider