Trip meter/ tank range: Switch from miles to km for continental riding?

[Tallguy]

Apologies if this is an "RTFM" error*, I couldn't find it in the handbook and I'm new to BMW ownership - still trying to get used to the filtering width of the GSA and the indicators

Is there a combination of button presses/holds that swaps the counters to/from miles to km and back, so I don't need to do maths in my head whilst riding through France Belgium Holland and Germany? I'd like to do the switch in the Tunnel on the way there and again on the way back. I don't want to have to take it to a dealer or anything complicated.

My 2003 Suzuki SV650 took a couple of seconds to do.


2012 R1200GS Adventure with computers and electric suspension and other stuff that I don't understand yet

*Read The Flippin' Manual

 

[ghiribizzo]

If you can find someone with a GS-911 they can change it from miles-km-miles as can a dealer. At a greater fee.
Button press whilst on Tunnel train? Nope.
Presumably you have a GPS? Put that to km.

 

[Tallguy]

Really no way? Doh.

GS-911? Is that a BMW bike/Porsche car hybrid?!

Shame about that, I can use the iPhone tomtom but it would be handy to have the tank range countdown in km.


I dunno, more computing power than NASA and forgot to program a sequence of buttons to multiply or divide by 1.6...

 

[WindyChuffer]

Apologies if this is an "RTFM" error*, I couldn't find it in the handbook and I'm new to BMW ownership - still trying to get used to the filtering width of the GSA and the indicators

Is there a combination of button presses/holds that swaps the counters to/from miles to km and back, so I don't need to do maths in my head whilst riding through France Belgium Holland and Germany? I'd like to do the switch in the Tunnel on the way there and again on the way back. I don't want to have to take it to a dealer or anything complicated.

My 2003 Suzuki SV650 took a couple of seconds to do.


2012 R1200GS Adventure with computers and electric suspension and other stuff that I don't understand yet

*Read The Flippin' Manual

No you cant do it. Therefore you can't take your bike out of the country to a metric zone.

Is the maths that difficult? All you need to remember is that 100Km = 60 miles and go from there.

 

[Tallguy]

No you cant do it. Therefore you can't take your bike out of the country to a metric zone.

Is the maths that difficult? All you need to remember is that 100Km = 60 miles and go from there.

I do too much maths at work to be bovvered with it when I'm on my hols. Laziness rules. That, and chocolate. I smother my brain's mental arithmetic lobe with it during vacations.

Does that mean there are places where 240p/£ is not the going rate?! What's "decimal currency" mean?

 

[Doon]

I do too much maths at work to be bovvered with it when I'm on my hols. Laziness rules. That, and chocolate. I smother my brain's mental arithmetic lobe with it during vacations.

Does that mean there are places where 240p/£ is not the going rate?! What's "decimal currency" mean?

240 d

 

[Tallguy]

240 d

Yup that's it

 

[Mav]

I just use the speedometer scale to convert KMs to Miles

 

[Tallguy]

I just use the speedometer scale to convert KMs to Miles

Good thinking.

 

[davegs]

Ks

Why all the fuss? very many of us have covered many miles in europe and
elsewhere with no probs, just fill up when it gets low. Just get out there and do it.

 

[Tallguy]

No problem at all, and I will (a week Thursday to be precise).

I was only asking for convenience' sake, as my old SV could do it very easily. I will use one of the alternative methods above.

 

[OldCroc]

A good question really. All modern cars have the ability to switch from m to k so why not a Gs?

 

[Tallguy]

A good question really. All modern cars have the ability to switch from m to k so why not a Gs?

I knew I wasn't going mad for asking the question!

 

[John Armstrong]

I was only asking for convenience' sake, as my old SV could do it very easily. I will use one of the alternative methods above.

The wee strom does it as well, which makes one less mental arithmetic computation necessary

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

I just pretend that all the signs on the continent are in miles.

That way I'm always impressed with the amount of ground I'm covering & how quickly I arrive at my destination.

Helps make for a very happy holiday.

Have a great trip & be safe.

 

[Steptoe]

The wee strom does it as well, which makes one less mental arithmetic computation necessary

Mental arithmetic..............Well, it's funny how it works, but i've found that if you need to start looking for fuel in the UK when your trip meter reads round 150 miles, you'll need to start looking for fuel at the same distance, even when you're riding abroad in these strange foreign places..

It's something that leaves me totally flumaxed, and I've never been able to explain it whenever i've been asked "so how does that work then" by people who don't believe me.

 

[John Armstrong]

Mental arithmetic..............Well, it's funny how it works, but i've found that if you need to start looking for fuel in the UK when your trip meter reads round 150 miles, you'll need to start looking for fuel at the same distance, even when you're riding abroad in these strange foreign places..

It's something that leaves me totally flumaxed, and I've never been able to explain it whenever i've been asked "so how does that work then" by people who don't believe me.

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