Nighthawk S dash, who wants to trade their km model for my mls model?

[OhCrap]

I have a USA model '86 700cc Nighthawk S, and I would like to trade my dashboard for a Euro/Asian/Canadian or any other 750cc km model.

It has to be in good condition like mine, and everything has to work.

I have no financial intentions and I suggest a fair trade and that we both pay our own shipping costs. I live in the Netherlands in case you want to look up how much that would cost you.

[fishmeister]

Maybe the metric 750 version may not match up in calibration.

[OhCrap]

I think it's higly likely it will, but I haven't looked in to it to deep yet. Honda was pretty good in making money in those days, so my guess is they wanted to put as much of the same parts on both versions of the bike as possible to save costs. I'll check what my local Honda dealer knows about it this afternoon, coincidently the guy that works there had a Honda Nighthawk as his first bike ten years ago or so (a blue 750 from Quebec I learned just last week when I came to show off mine).

[gammer]

I have a couple of spare speedo's. However, the needle's are broken off 
They aren't hard to change...if you are careful. They just pull off.
In fact, come to think of it I have a speedo that has a broken needle and a noisy gear. But the face plate (with the millage) is perfect. You should be able to transplant the faceplate off it onto yours, providing the gearing is the same (which it should be as it would be easier for Honda to use the same gears and just paint the MPH in the proper needle position, then to use completely different gears).
You can have it for free...just pay the shipping. I don't even want your old one. You can keep it as a spare.
Send me PM if interested?

[gammer]

p.s. What is the story on your 700s? How did it get to the Netherlands?

[OhCrap]

Thanks for the kind offer, I really appreciate it.

It would however fix only half the problem since the the distance- and the day-counter (sorry, I don't know the proper English names for those), but at least I would be able to see how fast I'm going in quick glance. IM is on it's way.

I assume it got imported over grey-import. Back in the '90's a lot of dutch bikeshops as well as some private enterprises went to the (sunnier) States to buy all sorts of American bikes to ship them back here. So far I've also owned a V45 Magna and a Kawa GPX600R Ninja from the USA.

As I understood it was mostly because those bikes were pretty much rust-free. Holland is a pretty rainy country and we're close to the sea (not to mention all the salt they spray here in winter time), so rust is quite a big problem for us when it comes to cars and bikes.