Earlier this year we announced that SIP would be releasing a new speedo for the original Vespa T5, well they’re finally ready for production and one T5-owning SLUK reader can win one.
Original parts for the T5 are getting pretty hard to find now and the T5 mark 1 speedos were never particularly reliable. SIP has done a very nice job of recreating the design whilst adding some useful modern features. You can check out the full specs and details on SIP or there’s a quick rundown below.
Features:
- Speed analogue up to 10,000 rpm
- Speed digital up to 14,000 rpm
- Analogue speed, up to 80 mph depending on model
- Digital speed 140 mph
- Maximum speed up to 140 mph
- Target distance, e.g. for maintenance interval
- Adjustable odometer (carry over miles from previous speedo)
- Gear display – teachable
- Fuel gauge with level warning
- Temperature 0 to 250° or 32°-482° F. for cylinder head or water temperature, a temperature sensor for the spark plug is included in delivery
- EGT temperature gauge with SIP exhaust gas temperature sensor from 100°- 1200° C possible
- AF display with SIP lambda sensor from A 10.0-24.0 possible
- Maximum temperature
- Total distance up to 99999 km/miles
- Single distance A and B up to 9999.9 km/miles
- Driving time A and B up to 99.59 h
- Average speed A and B up to 199 km/h or 140 mph
- Low voltage warning DC
- Brightness of speedometer illumination adjustable in 5 steps
- Tank, indicator, high beam, low beam indicators
Competition time
SIP have kindly given us one new T5 speedo for a lucky reader to win. What we want though is a winner who will make good use of it, so you need to own a Mark 1 T5. We also want you to fit and review it for us.
How to enter
To enter we’d like you to send us a photo of your T5 and write a few words about your time with the scooter (how long you’ve owned it, is it standard, any rides that stand out etc). We’re not looking for War and Peace but a couple of paragraphs will be fine, just to give us an idea of why the T5 is still so special to owners.
We’ll publish all the photos and write-ups, then choose a winner who we consider to be worthy of this prize. Only entries sent by email will be included in the competition.
T5 Comp emails
You can email your entry and photo to: editorial@scooterlab.uk and title the email ‘T5 comp.’ We’ll draw a winner on Thursday, December 7th. Get writing…
