wordsmith Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Proceeding at warp speed during a recent outing I noticed that the short vertical bars of the tachometer turned a brighter shade of green as revs and speed increased. Returned to standard as I backed-off. Never seen this before and cannot find any reference in the Manual. Any ideas, chaps? TIA... Riding a fully-farkled 2019 MT-09 Tracer 900 GT from my bayside home in South East Queensland, Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugie Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 (edited) I believe it is to say when you are reaching the higher end of the set interval (i.e. before orange kicks in) or when you are riding economically Edited September 17, 2019 by bugie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel5 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 It's in the manual you can set the rev counter to turn green at certain revs and at higher revs orange if you so wish. Set mine to green at 5000 rpm, roughly 80 in top gear my cruising speed. Without looking it's in the manual under dash display? Also set my dash to black background all the time, clearer to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcal616 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Just give me an adjustable (able to rotate the meter housing) old school analog needle sweep style gauge... So easy to give a quick glance and see if the needle is pointing vertical or not to shift... 4 2012 wr250f - C-class 30+ age group 2015 fz-07- Hordpower Edition-80whp 2015 fj-09- Graves Exhaust w/Woolich tune by 2WDW @120whp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitown Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Romeo Tango Foxtrot Mike 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhchris Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Better than a shift light and just what you need for turning those hot laps Wordy! Yee HAA! 1968 Triumph Bonneville 650 1971 Norton Commando Roadster 2002 Harley 1200 Sportster 2003 Honda ST 1300 2016 FJ 09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsmith Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, chitown said: Romeo Tango Foxtrot Mike I did, but find no specific reference to it, other than on p 4-12: 'the tachometer can be colour-adjusted...', but no idea as to why, or how? Can it do pink? 1 Riding a fully-farkled 2019 MT-09 Tracer 900 GT from my bayside home in South East Queensland, Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitown Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 As said above it's in the manual. Green and orange. Keep reading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suu Kyi Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 16 hours ago, wordsmith said: Proceeding at warp speed during a recent outing I noticed that the short vertical bars of the tachometer turned a brighter shade of green as revs and speed increased. Returned to standard as I backed-off. Never seen this before and cannot find any reference in the Manual. Any ideas, chaps? TIA... Pretty sure this is due to the shift light setting where the tacho bars change colour (blue to green) and the shift light comes on simultaneously when you reach the setting, I've kept mine at the default which is 5,000 rpm. The annoying thing with this is sometimes (quite rarely) I cruise for a short period at around 140kph, which means the revs are > 5,000 rpm which then triggers the colour change as well as the shift light to stay on continuously till the speed/revs drop below 5k. Easily adjusted to a higher RPM but then again it's a reminder that I'm going too fast. Perhaps the shift light feature should be disabled once you're in 6th gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member betoney Posted September 18, 2019 Supporting Member Share Posted September 18, 2019 20 minutes ago, Suu Kyi said: Easily adjusted to a higher RPM but then again it's a reminder that I'm going too fast. Going too fast or having fun? 😎. At 5k you are just getting into the fun zone. 2 ***2015 Candy Red FJ-09*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsmith Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 9 hours ago, chitown said: As said above it's in the manual. Green and orange. Keep reading Life is too short! Riding a fully-farkled 2019 MT-09 Tracer 900 GT from my bayside home in South East Queensland, Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel5 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 8 hours ago, Suu Kyi said: Pretty sure this is due to the shift light setting where the tacho bars change colour (blue to green) and the shift light comes on simultaneously when you reach the setting, I've kept mine at the default which is 5,000 rpm. The annoying thing with this is sometimes (quite rarely) I cruise for a short period at around 140kph, which means the revs are > 5,000 rpm which then triggers the colour change as well as the shift light to stay on continuously till the speed/revs drop below 5k. Easily adjusted to a higher RPM but then again it's a reminder that I'm going too fast. Perhaps the shift light feature should be disabled once you're in 6th gear. I just disabled the shift light as I don`t feel the need to redline the bike, just checked and I set the green bar to come on at 5,800 rpm and orange at 6,800rpm, works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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