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The only time you will use the tach is if you do your own work, setting the pilot screws or balancing the carbs. Other than that, you will learn to shift by ear, depending on how you ride. If you like to wind it out and want to shift just before the rev limiter kicks in, you will find 2 things: The Triumph tach is like the speedometer - not the most accurate instrument, and, when you're heading for the rev limiter, the last thing you want to be doing is staring at the top of the fuel tank.....
when the speedo suffers the yankee syndrome (in the wind at near freezing temps traveling over 80mph) and no longer reads semi accurately, then the tach stands in place of the speedo.
And mr newbie, er smaug,
fleabay has some for sale. check pinwall cycles. usually you can buy the whole tank console complete with idiot lens and yep a tach. for less than 100 bucks. that's how Cinnamon Girl got her groove back, er got her tach.
Listen for a honk Friday about 1 PM as I cage it past gettysburg. 
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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