Well I found the problem just need to find a fix

Hi all when I bought my WRR it had the speedo fault, if you haven't seen this its when the speedo runs much faster than it should do due to a the battery going flat. Mine was showing 199 KPH most of the time and recored the milage way off . Not wishing to run the milage up through the roof I unplugged the speed sensor which solved the problem.

That was until on the next ride, it was fine for a bit then the engine light came on and she died. I turned the mains off and she restarted fine and went on her way. The next time out the same thing happen I had a check over the bike but could not find anything wrong. When I checked the on board computer the only fault that came up was 70 which is the 20 minute idle warning . This morning on a ride it shut down dead at 20 minutes into it. I have figured out with no speed sensor input the computer thinks the bike is on idle all the time hence the shut down .So its time to buy a new speedo at £199 + vat or reconnect the sensor with a small bar mounted switch that I can punch every few minutes to fool the on board computer.

A bugger but fixable.

Or buy a speedo healer like SpeedoDRD.

Issue has been discussed several times on the forum. For example: https://wr250rforum.forumotion.com/t5263-speedo-reading-3x-actual-speed-after-batter-change

Using the search function brings up several more

I might take the healer fix its not cheap but better than the whole speedo , does it fix the speed and milage issue or just one of the two ?

Yes it takes care of both, but only to stock accuracy at most. there is a builtin discrepancy between speedo and odo of about 7-9% I think. So either the speedo is correct and odo 7-9% slow, or odo correct and speedo 7-9% fast.

thats a shame mine is very out way more than 9% I might just go for a button wire up in the sensor to speedo cable and just punch it every so often to fool the on board computer .

Sorry maybe I didn't explain that properly:

you can set the correction factor to whatever you want. So if your indicated speed is 3x the actual speed, you can divide it by 3 and get to the correct speed. However the odo will not be 100% correct, but will be 9% slow. That's what I mean with builtin discrepancy. Stock the odo is (almost) correct, but speedo is 9% fast. If you use the speedohealer to bring the speedo 100% correct, your odo will be 9% slow. That problem already exists stock and there is nothing you can do about it. With the speedohealer you can choose whatever multiplier you want. So for example setting a divider of 3 could bring the odometer back to correct readings, and speedo 9% fast (as it is stock).

You would have to play around with a gps to figure out what factor works best for you, and what you wish to have more accurate, the odo or speedo.

Thanks mate I understand now I think its time to look on eBay and get one ordered .
Thanks for all you help and advice .