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May 25, 2017 | 06:44 PM

MrHD365

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Compasses for Motorcycles

What Compasses are most accurate for motorcycles all weather?

May 26, 2017 | 07:37 AM

Expat1

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I used the polished surface of the fuel filling cap for many years. GPS made it simpler nowadays. The marine compass will be mislead if you have speaker magnets in your fairing.

May 26, 2017 | 09:44 AM

grbrown

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It's some years since I recall seeing any discussion in here about compasses, but they have been installed on dressers, sometimes to replace one of the existing small gauges. They have been made for use in vehicles, although I don't know if they still are. I've been using a gps for many years, which meets my needs. It's a weatherproof bike one, for use on any of our three bikes and two vehicles - used it only this morning!

May 26, 2017 | 09:53 AM

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May 26, 2017 | 03:13 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Expat1

I used the polished surface of the fuel filling cap for many years. GPS made it simpler nowadays. The marine compass will be mislead if you have speaker magnets in your fairing.

GPS??? I use a sextant.

May 26, 2017 | 05:08 PM

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Speaking of GPS, most of these you can substitute the car icon to another icon, which most have a compass arrow. My Garmin does that and you can even set the top of the map to always be north and let the compass arrow spin as you travel.