mebgardner
Active Member
Added a Cyclops Adventure Sports Motorcycle Tire Pressure Monitoring System (CIL-TPMS1).
I check my tires before every ride, usually by just using my "calibrated foot" while stepping on the rim. Hey, it's better than nothing.
Now, I have a digital readout reference for a true pressure check for front and rear, at the handlebar, every time I ride. Perfect!
This kit is very good. The handlebar mounted unit is small, but the digital numbers are just big enough for me to read without glasses. They're LED type, and bright green. Bright enough for direct daylight viewing (I can read them in direct sunlight), and dim enough to be unobtrusive at night. They're covered under dark smoke plastic covering.
It's accurate. I used my best air pressure gauge, and set my tire pressures front and rear. When I got the readouts the first time, and since, the numbers match my settings with my gauge, front and rear.
This thing is simple to connect, and it was plug and play. If you have switched 12VDC at the bars already, then it's a 10 minute job to tap into that and make the connection to the bar unit.
The tire sensors take the place of your dust caps, and use batteries. They're light enough where you will not need any balance correction.
OK, here's some additional info you'll probably need, since this is a new to market system.
There are already batteries in the tire sensors when you open the kit. They send along extra batteries in the kit, but you don't need to install them.
(They talk about how to install batteries in the installation manual, using a wrench that is apparently missing. Don't worry, you don't need it yet, and I've already told them about this. By the time you get one, I think this will be fixed).
The sensors are already Bluetooth paired to the display, you don't need to do that either. However, pay attention to the sensor top, labeled "A", and "B". "A" is for the front tire, and "B" is for the rear. Get the correct sensor on the correct tire, and you'll be happy.
One further startup info: The enclosed documentation talks about "dashes" displayed upon initial power. Mine "flashed" / blinked on/off, at about a 1 sec rate, a display of 0 PSI, for both tires. I thought "Uh Oh, whats this?", and the documentation does not speak to it at all. But, it was "normal". I went for a short ride, and the display became actual pressures within about 200 ft. after I began riding. It was stable and steadily climbed during riding (yes, tire pressures go up as tires warm up) and thereafter. It was fine, I just had to get the cycle moving.
If you want cycle TPMS, this is a good kit.
I check my tires before every ride, usually by just using my "calibrated foot" while stepping on the rim. Hey, it's better than nothing.
Now, I have a digital readout reference for a true pressure check for front and rear, at the handlebar, every time I ride. Perfect!
This kit is very good. The handlebar mounted unit is small, but the digital numbers are just big enough for me to read without glasses. They're LED type, and bright green. Bright enough for direct daylight viewing (I can read them in direct sunlight), and dim enough to be unobtrusive at night. They're covered under dark smoke plastic covering.
It's accurate. I used my best air pressure gauge, and set my tire pressures front and rear. When I got the readouts the first time, and since, the numbers match my settings with my gauge, front and rear.
This thing is simple to connect, and it was plug and play. If you have switched 12VDC at the bars already, then it's a 10 minute job to tap into that and make the connection to the bar unit.
The tire sensors take the place of your dust caps, and use batteries. They're light enough where you will not need any balance correction.
OK, here's some additional info you'll probably need, since this is a new to market system.
There are already batteries in the tire sensors when you open the kit. They send along extra batteries in the kit, but you don't need to install them.
(They talk about how to install batteries in the installation manual, using a wrench that is apparently missing. Don't worry, you don't need it yet, and I've already told them about this. By the time you get one, I think this will be fixed).
The sensors are already Bluetooth paired to the display, you don't need to do that either. However, pay attention to the sensor top, labeled "A", and "B". "A" is for the front tire, and "B" is for the rear. Get the correct sensor on the correct tire, and you'll be happy.
One further startup info: The enclosed documentation talks about "dashes" displayed upon initial power. Mine "flashed" / blinked on/off, at about a 1 sec rate, a display of 0 PSI, for both tires. I thought "Uh Oh, whats this?", and the documentation does not speak to it at all. But, it was "normal". I went for a short ride, and the display became actual pressures within about 200 ft. after I began riding. It was stable and steadily climbed during riding (yes, tire pressures go up as tires warm up) and thereafter. It was fine, I just had to get the cycle moving.
If you want cycle TPMS, this is a good kit.