How can you tell when Shes Faking it?

[Kwaka-Kid]

Just wanting to know guys, how do you tell?
When im riding down the road at 120 every other car seems to be doing it too, and im sure they are only likly to be doing 100-105, do i have an optimistic honda speedo? is she faking up the speed?
what do you all compare you guys against?
just that the other day i was behind a cop in paddy wagon and got bored of sitting behind it. My speedo read 110kmph, but i guessed it was out a wee way and decided to overtake the cop, when i did... the lights came on, and i was already a way wee way away and thought, shit is that me?! eventually came to a stop when i thought hard about it. he told me then that he was doing 105kmph and i came passed him obviously at higher speed, what was my explanation? i told him my sisters boyfriends mother had a dog that was dieing and that the lady that was looking after this dogs husband had a son with a bike that needed petrol fast and from Te Awamutu, so thats why i was in a hurry, after being asked what the real reason was i told him about the speedo that i thought was out, i also looked nervous and yadda yadda and he told me that i should know better then to use that excuse. anyways he ran back to paddy wagon and said blah blah and came back and said he was letting me off with a warning (cheers dude!) and that hed saved me like around $120, so yeah, thanks to him but i still reckon my speedo's out and was wondering how you guys checked yours.

Also i just felt like starting a thread coz i havnt done in months.
oh and outside of bikes, how do you guys tell how she(the one that must be obeyed) is faking it?
... not that id need to know for personal issues or anything.. coz no way does she fake it or anything ... but just for umm, you know, the sake of knowing? yeah thats it... wait, i dont even have a she? damn. well tell me anyway!

[PutMan]

Whoa is this like the issue of trying to explain to a cop why you can't ride a motor bike with cramp easy... ....
Or if my bike could go that quick officer I'd jump of it and SCREEM thanks to the gods...

But hey my speedo must be going way to slow or something cause a few months ago a cop did me for 129kph or something in a 100kph zone ... and ATM and for quiet a while my bikes had many a Prob... one of the three running to rich... running on three cylinders... or running to lean... but as it is only a shitter to me i havent worryed cause it can do what i need it to do wheather its healthy for it or not but I know one thing it cant do to well is get above 100kph

But is she faking it for Me i doubt not...
Just running like a Dog

And KK "Cough KY Cough" I think you know when she was Faking it

[Bandito]

How do you know when she (the one who must be obeyed) is faking it?
correct answer is; who f@#king cares!!!

[Drunken Monkey]

Well you can check your odometer accuracy against the fixed distance markers down Ramarama way. Since speedos make my buns look... *ahem*...usually work off the same hardware, it would not be unreasonable to expect the speedo is accurate as the odometer.

Otherwise the next best thing is to test against an accurate measuring device, such as a correvitt (I think these only fit on cars), GPS speedo, a race-timer or against the track computer at the drags (although that will only tell you your speed at the trap, and you have to be looking at it at the instant you cross the line).

[Kwaka-Kid]

Hahaha!
crackup... wham bam thankyou ma'm yeah bandito? :P

[Jackrat]

Check me speedo against some one elses at a set speed.
As for her,who gives a shit.

[Slim]

Ask your Dad where his co-workers get their speedos certified & see if they can do bikes too.

Or if a radar test can be set up for you, since they're calibrated regularly too.


As to the other question? I couldn't possibly comment!

[Antallica]

The Fixxer's speedo is factory set 7km/h faster then what you're actually doing afaik.

[FROSTY:Me]

around auckland are mobile speed camera thingees --they tell ya on a big as board how fast you are going.- maybee a ride by one of them might help

[White trash]

At a recent speed trials on a closed Wairarapa road, I was timed for the flying quater at 263kph.

The fucken speedo was reading 280+! Ripped off, I want my money back.

Jimbo750 was timed at 270 something but I smoked him by 0.4 of a second on the standing quater.

Flying was timed with only 1k run up.

So to summarise, speedos are pretty inaccurate.

As for your missus faking it, what's she faking?

[RiderInBlack]

The CBR's speedo is in MPH, so I'm constantly trying to do conversions (but officer I was going less than 100, MPH that is ). 100KPH approx 62.5MPH (so I go 65MPH just to make sure, would hate to be done for going too slow ).

As the girls in my life, they have soon learnt that if they are stupid enough to fake it, then they are only diddling themselves out of some real pleasure

[bgd]

In the UK a speedo has to be 100% accurate or allow 10% in your favour. I've tested the GS against a GPS and at 100mph on the clock the GPS read 90. I can live with the 10% if it stops those cameras flashing.

Plod cars, by the way, are calibrated to be 100% accurate. And to quote one of our local bike cops, "nothing pisses me off more than someone overtaking me when I'm doing the limit".

Perhaps they might feel the same way over there?

[Deano]

When I had my bike on the dyno they said it was reading 110kmh, when actually travelling at 100kmh. Ive been meaning to test it against someone elses speedo, but then again, theres is likely to be incorrect as well. Is it a safety margin so we have no excuse for exceeding speed limits ?

As to the 2nd part of the question - who really cares if she's faking it or not, as long as you aren't !!

[RiderInBlack]

Plod cars, by the way, are calibrated to be 100% accurate.

There is no instrument for measurement, that I know of, that could be 100% accurate (I believe 99.99% but even than would be good enough).

[FzerozeroT]

I had my bike on the dyno and at 7,000 it was supposedly travelling at 100kph, (with allowance for rear tyre squish 105) why am I screaming past everything then?

Have got a pushbike speedo i have to get around to installing... might play Far Cry today.