BikerThomas.com » mileage http://bikerthomas.com My Vulcan and me on the road :) Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 VN900 Trip meter check http://bikerthomas.com/2009/06/vn900-trip-meter-check/ http://bikerthomas.com/2009/06/vn900-trip-meter-check/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:03:34 +0000 BikerThomas http://bikerthomas.com/2009/06/vn900-trip-meter-check/ I checked the accuracy of the trip meter on my VN900 recently. I hooked up my Garmin Zumo 500 GPS to my bike and rode 100KM, at least that’s what the trip meter read. The GPS, on the other hand, said that I had only travelled 96KM. I decided to check this further and sure enough, when the trip meter read 200KM the GPS told me that I had only travelled 192KM.

I’m not an expert on this but I chose to trust my GPS more than my trip meter. Therefore my conclusion is that you can deduct approximately 4% from your trip meter or odometer to get a more accurate view of actual mileage.

Any thoughts on this? Please do add your comment! :)

Links:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/odometer.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odometer

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