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[darrsi]

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Is a sat nav more reliable than a speedo though?

I reckon it is.

I've read before that it is against laws/regulations for speedos to read less than the actual speed and therefore manufacturers 'play it safe'.

When my car speedo reads 30mph the sat-nav reads 28mph.

At 40 on the speedo it is 37mph on the sat-nav.

At 70 on the speedo it is 65mph on the sat-nav.
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Just been having a look about and sure enough it mentions everywhere that manufacturers deliberately alter the speedo by "approximately" 8% to allow for certain things, ie: tyre wear, using tyres that started with quite high tread, which would eventually result in the wheel spinning quicker when just above the legal limit as the reading would change from when the tyre was new.
It's done to keep you under the limit by default because of the percentage discrepancy.


So on those maths, we should be getting 150mph, at a push, if the bike was new. I'd imagine that ship has sailed now, due to the age of them though, and wear and tear.
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So David Ike is right when he says we are all living in an altered reality, what else is not real.
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No, he's just a nutter!