Modern Vespa

I have:
2006 GTS 250
2017 GTS 300

The 2017 shows speed, fuel, and idiot lights plus one generic "turn signal" indicator.
The 2006 shows: speed, fuel, tach, engine temp, outside air temp, and left/right turn signal.

Apologize for the bad pix but you get the idea.

Seems the 06-? era had the -best- display, but prove me wrong. To what year did they continue that, '09 I seem to think?

Best or busiest?

I like the information on the 2006 display (especially the separate turn indicators), but I do think it looks very ugly. Oh, and a tach on a CVT scooter seems completely useless?

At the same time, I'm 100% in love with the current 2014 and later style display, regarding looks, that is.

If only it had decent turn indicators...

When I had the earlier speedo on my scooter, I replaced the indicator LEDs with much brighter ones. I found the tach very useful when tuning (fiddling with) the variator.

I think the later version is much more attractive. But I couldn't change the indicator LEDs as they were surface mounted.

I am biased I know, but owning an early 2014 model (prior to the upgrade) the analogue speedo is the most visually attractive. It's achillies heal as every owner knows, is the battery operated clock which entails removal of the entire unit in order to change it.

Funny how my brain works. I read this new thread and immediately think of a Vespa project. I think, "maybe I could add individual indicator lights to my Sprint. There must be a kit for this at Scooterwest!" How much fun would that be? Then I remember I spent hours researching and adding a loud buzzer to my indicators and don't really need lights. Darn!

I am partial to this one.

Rocket's 2006 Vespa GT instrument panel.

Rolling over, back to zero.

Bill

I remember back around 1990, I had a single-seater Honda Vision scooter (which, yes, still has got a special place in my heart...). Its counter only had 4 digits (and one decimal), so at 10,000 kilometers (about 6,250 miles) it would roll over already...

Obviously a GTS is made for much longer distances. Congrats!

My search for a new to me Vespa is targeting the 06-09 GTS as a 1st choice for this very reason.

I prefer the older style found on the 06 through 09 models. I really liked having a trip meter and a clock that did not use a separate battery requiring replacement.

I also liked having a tachometer for better info when doing any transmission upgrades.

A bonus for those with red bikes is the red backlighting.

Vespa S. Direct sun? No problem.

2015 era, blacked out.

I have to admit to ignoring instrument panels except for startup, signal indicators or in school zones. More lights and gauges vie to take my attention off the road. I do like the aesthetics of the newer Vespa clocks, and someday may ignore them myself.

I enjoy my Supertech display because i can show anything i want to on it. Not just directions and trip but also things like rpm or coolant temp, Tire pressure and temp, social media notifications. Etc

I just got a new supertech. How do I display such things on mine?

by using my Vespa Snoop app (for Android only)

I've only recently bought a GTS, so a real novice, but where is the Tach on the Speedo pic.?
Cheers, Graham.

This is the Tach for the 250 (RPM x 1000).
If you have a 2012 300 you should have the analogue speedo like mine (see my earlier post).

Thanks, yes i have the same display as yours, i keep looking at the MPH version available in the US with the MPH speedo, if i knew for certain it would fit, i'd buy it, i really don't like the EU version where the Kmh figures are prominent. .
Cheers, Graham.

I have been happy with the dash on my 2008 GTS250ie. Shows all the info I need, has a tach, a clock that doesn't use a cheap watch battery, time, temperature, trip meter, etc.

My wife has a Supertech and she was not able to get the coolant temp to display - we must have been doing something wrong...?

to see the coolant temp you need to use either the official app or my app. the official can only display it in the app, mine can show it in both the app and on the tft

For the most part, I'm an analog-display fan: As a watch enthusiast, I prefer analog dials (mostly with mechanical/automatic movements) to digital, although I do like my Casio ProTrek; prefer doing my journaling in longhand, via fountain pen, and still conduct most, but not all, of my more-serious photographic projects with film. Nostalgia has next-to-nothing to do with this–it's simply how I prefer to work most of the time. But I'm anything but a stone-cold Luddite, since among other things my work in freelance IT requires me to be reasonably up-to-date with quite a bit of tech, and that tech is involved in a lot of my other stuff (all that film needs to get scanned to be seen online and meticulously printed, after all).

With moto/scooter instrumentation, I'm now split down the middle: If I were to wake up tomorrow and decide to run out and get a full-on motorcycle (and actually had the cash laying around for one), I'd actually prefer a "classic" two-can instrument panel, albeit with ancillary LCD/LED panels nestled within or in-between. (Triumph and Royal Enfield have done a nice job in this regard, IMO.) With Vespa, I was always puzzled at why, after moving from an all-analog three-gauge setup with the original Granturismo/GT200 to the innovative-for-its-time "hybrid" ana-digi setup of the GTS250, they went back to the original instrumentation for the first-gen GTS300. I seriously loved the revamped hybrid panel of the second-gen GTS300, which was what I ended up with on Melody, and while I had my minor apprehensions about the SuperTech's TFT panel, now that I've had it for several months, I really like it: Vespa largely dodged the information-overload bullet that plagues lots of other TFT-equipped two-wheelers while still offering lots of pertinent info on-tap, as well as a degree of configurability. And, with their own app (or steelbytes' Vespa Snoop app, my phone becomes the equivalent of the "extended desktop" on a desktop computer with dual monitors, offering up still-more info (if you're into that, and I sometimes am).

I have what you need