 Triumph America's instrument cluster query
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Hi, I'm new to motorcycling, new to the site, and new to my first bike, which is a Triumph America. As you all know, on the gas tank there is an instrumentation cluster, in my case a central tachometer, a neutral light, indicator lights, and also two empty holes (filled with rubber gromets). The dealer who sold this to me (Harley-Davidson) did not know what these might be for, and the manual does not tell me either. Can anyone tell me, please?
Thanks!
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one is for the light for the alarm if fitted, I don't recall what the other one is for. welcome to the site and the world of motorcycling! Triumph is a great brand to start with
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Ironically, and I say this because of your chosen site name here Michael, if instead of a tachometer one has a clock in the center console, the other hole is for a rubber covered button which electrically sets the time by adjusting the clock hands forward and/or backward.
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What they said.
Welcome aboard chap. Where in Blighty are you?
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Ironically, and I say this because of your chosen site name here Michael, if instead of a tachometer one has a clock in the center console, the other hole is for a rubber covered button which electrically sets the time by adjusting the clock hands forward and/or backward.
Welcome to BA.com!
totally forgot about the clock! 
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Here I always thought one of the holes was for the optional running lights. You know the 2 big lights that are next to the headlamp on big cruisers.
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Here I always thought one of the holes was for the optional running lights. You know the 2 big lights that are next to the headlamp on big cruisers.
Those have their switch on one of the light housing buckets. Although I relocated the switch to the left side hole on the chrome panel in question and plugged the one on the bucket.
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Yes, welcome to the finest forum in the civilised world.
Where are you?
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Now where the ****** am I?
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Hi all and thanks for the responses. And sorry for my tardy thanks, but (and this is very embarrassing) I forgot to bookmark this web site, and it's taken me almost three months to refind this site!! Ay ya!!
So happy new year, and thanks again for the help.
Oh, and a couple of you asked where I am . . . in the sparse countryside of eastern England, where the roads are narrow, often covered in farm-mud, laced in old oak trees, and full of twists and turns.
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Oh, and a couple of you asked where I am . . . in the sparse countryside of eastern England, where the roads are narrow, often covered in farm-mud, laced in old oak trees, and full of twists and turns.
Hmmm...now why is it I'm now envisioning Patrick Macnee driving around in a 1926 Bentley and/or Diana Rigg doing the same thing in a '65 Lotus Elan?
(...I wonder) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight, your references usually (but, not always) fly right over my non-movie watching head. But thanks to the miracle of Google, I can usually find the answer. This one was no exception. 
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