I highly doubt that.Toby said:Ya I suppose so but I think it's not so much a screw up as it is intentional knowing you are gonna want to get and have to spend money to put a nice tire on there to fit that nice big fender.lol.Straightjacket said:Hey Toby, the speedos off anyway so your just fixing their screw-up by puttin on a bigger tire to correct!
GPS is accurate as it calculates from satellite signals...time traveled between point A and point B. That's how I realized how inaccurate my stryker speedo was.....several mph under.MY said:Ok. Let me get this straight. If the auto makers set the speedo off, then does that mean that the makers of GPS's set them off as well. My GPS reads the same as my speedo on my car? What do you think? I think it's all one big conspiracy, between a alien world and our Goverment. ;D
Well, not to sound like an ass but that's pretty obvious. The calculation is a ratio and therefore is more distorted at a higher speed (higher number).WildFan said:Here's my experience with gps and speedos - I've driven in my truck and car with the gps, and they both seem to match the speed shown on the gps. I've also rode my previous bike ('05 ninja with a digital speedometer readout) and my Stryker with the gps. Here's what I noticed with both of the bikes - at slower speeds the speedo read a couple mph over the gps reading. As I went faster, the gap between the speedo reading and the gps reading got larger. For both bikes, when the gps read 75mph on the freeway, my speedos on the bikes read 83mph. Again, no answers, just my experience.
It's really simple if you think about it. The speedo counts revolutions of the wheel to calculate speed. When you put a bigger tire(diameter not width), it takes longer for the wheel to make one revolution. So the speedo thinks you're going slower even though you have covered the same distance.tremorous said:So bigger tires equals more accurate speedo? How big a tire would through the speedo to show less then what you are traveling?
