Smiths chronometric speedo

Hardly anyone will sell reconditioned chronometrics outright. The UK price for an exchanged recon. instrument is around £180 - £200. Virtually any version can be exchanged...the art therefore is to find a scruffy but rebuildable donor for not too much money - it doesn't usually have to be same speed range or with trip etc.

I'm not sure though if they will accept 'D' shape...at one time some repairers did. I don't see you getting away with less than about £300 in total though.

.. There are electronic versions that have identical faces. Not cheap but cheaper...andavailable. Made by ex-Smiths employees apparently.

...but unless it's programmed for a Norton single, an electronic version won't have that 'one, two, three, tick' movement of a proper chrono...

Someone on the 'Real Classic' pages used the term 'cadence' when referring to big singles and it applies to chronometrics too. They are a small, but essential part of that 1930s - 1960 motorcycling experience.

A pseudo-chronometric needle movement is optional. My 88 ss hss no rev counter so one of these is on my wish list.

Smiths 120 mph chrono in working order (He said) at Rufforth AJ today (Saturday) £200.

You can now buy a new Smithselectronic replica for just a bit more.