Curious mileage discrepancy today

[2spyders]

Grumpy and I went out for a little ride this afternoon, the first test after the new dps and the update to the update. Ran great! Steering was smooth as glass! :clap: My old spyder is back!:yes:

The curious part is that we stopped for gas at one point, where we both reset our trip meters. Little while later, Grumpy said (through the headsets) "that's 50 miles since we got gas". I looked at my trip meter and it said 52.1 miles. When we got home, his said 65.6 and mine said 68.2. I googled our route, and google said 65.5 miles.

I have stock tires, and the pressure is fine. Could have been this way forever, we've never compared before. Just seems a little weird.

 

[j45p3r]

Yea, not uncommon for odometers to be off each other a bit. My father and I ride identical snowmobiles (same year, make, model) and after a 250+ mile day our odometers often differ by as much as 5-6 miles.

 

[SpyderWolf]

Glad to hear your old Spyder is back, and you had a great ride.

 

[Tom in NM]

Yes, weird, but . . . . .

The curious part is that we stopped for gas at one point, where we both reset our trip meters. Little while later, Grumpy said (through the headsets) "that's 50 miles since we got gas". I looked at my trip meter and it said 52.1 miles. When we got home, his said 65.6 and mine said 68.2. I googled our route, and google said 65.5 miles.

Just seems a little weird.

. . . . . it does explain why Grumpy looks like he has so many more miles on him than you do.

Something totally different, but same kind of weird - yesterday I noticed my analog speedometer was showing about 5 to 10 MPH more than the digital. When the digital showed 40, the analog was showing 45. At 70 on the digital, the analog was 80.

Today, I put a couple of hundred miles on and both of them were in sync all day long. ( if I was Grumpy, it would have been 250 )

Tom

 

[bjt]

Reminds me of the t-shirt- 'some mornings I wake up Grumpy, usually I let her sleep.....':roflblack:

 

[retired1]

odometer descrepency

I was out riding last week and came across a measured 5 mile odometer check. For every 1 measured mile, my odometer registered 1and 1/10. I didn't try to maintain 60mph and time the mile. I was out for a relaxing ride