larrball
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2016 Genuine Scooter Rough House Sport Ti
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Post by larrball on Aug 13, 2011 12:12:47 GMT -5
Went for a ride this morning and brought the Gps along
as i was running low on fuel and i needed a better MPG estimator.
Well after i put in 1/2 GL and marked my china gauge and wrote down the current mileage, off i go.
Road my current "to-work and back" and a few other places that are out of the way but will get you there for fun.
With that said i got home and looked at the Gps miles and time and
it said Max speed 58Mph.
Now come on now that's not right.
50-53Mph on one of the steep down hill's i rode? OK i'll buy that, but 58.0MPH... Nada, because im still alive and the scooter engine is too.
Have you guys/Goosey seen this with your Gps? Mine is a Garman nuvi.
I wounder what the speed of a hammer is from point "Larry" to point "Garman"!
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 13, 2011 13:01:34 GMT -5
My Nuvi is accurate on the GPS itself. It's my understanding that if you download the tracklog that any GPS can give screwy results. I've seen numbers higher than my scoots can go and numbers lower than what I actually did. I quit using the track logs for anything other than posting a map on here. I calibrated my speedometer to my GPS and they are dead on all of the time. I can ride 100 miles and see 100 miles on both the GPS and the speedo. If I pass a radar sign both are right on. The only time I've had issues with the reading on the screen is "live" as I'm riding when going through a forest or something. In that case, it reads low.
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tango
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Post by tango on Aug 13, 2011 13:40:33 GMT -5
How do you calibrate the speedo, Brent? Inquiring minds and hands NEED to know!
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Post by lshigham on Aug 13, 2011 14:03:45 GMT -5
He uses a Bicycle speedo, I believe it's a Sigma.
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 13, 2011 14:06:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I use bicycle speedometers on all of my scoots.
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Post by jmkjr72 on Aug 13, 2011 16:25:02 GMT -5
sigma is the way to go
you ahve to remeber to make gps cheap acrracy went out the window
i can be holding a gps on a cloudy day and standing still and it can show you moving
hell just the other day i had the gps in the rig i was on the highway and it was telling me i was 300 yds off teh road
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larrball
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2016 Genuine Scooter Rough House Sport Ti
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Post by larrball on Aug 14, 2011 12:43:25 GMT -5
Thank's guys im going to look into a update for the gps if there is any.
Mine is about 5 years old also when i looked at it i thank i had it in "bicycle" mode.
Would that even matter?
Brent, I doin't believe i have ever used the tracklog?
Can't say i even know what it is. lol
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Post by jmkjr72 on Aug 14, 2011 13:19:33 GMT -5
an update wont hel the accruacy
the number of sats you are picking up and how the goverment has the accuracy set that day
thats right the us goverment controls the sats that are used for the gps
unless you are set up with a sureveying contract your accruacy can very day by day as they play with the sats
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Post by 90GTVert on Aug 14, 2011 13:30:25 GMT -5
Brent, I doin't believe i have ever used the tracklog? Can't say i even know what it is. lol Like I said earlier, I only use it to post something like this every once in a while...  |
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larrball
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Post by larrball on Aug 14, 2011 14:57:16 GMT -5
Ahh, OK i see.
Well now i know why i didn't know as my GPS doesn't have that it's the navi 200. Old,old,old.
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Post by Goosey on Aug 14, 2011 21:13:57 GMT -5
I don't use mine a lot. Just when I don't know the rought for sure, and to test run.
The updates, if you have to pay for them, cost almost as much as the GPS did.
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larrball
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Post by larrball on Aug 15, 2011 10:03:56 GMT -5
I don't use mine a lot. Just when I don't know the rought for sure, and to test run. The updates, if you have to pay for them, cost almost as much as the GPS did. Ya i seen that on the garman website. Like jmkjr72 said it may not do any good and im not going to pay to find out. I'll just use a car and tinker with it and if it's not working like it should no big deal but if it looks ok in the car i'll try a few different mounting on the scooter. Realy the sad thing is,is that i never really used it that much when i bought it but it did get me out of a few jams when i was on the road state to state. And to think, i payed top $$ for it back when it came out. (2007-2008) Ha,Ha i pay top $$ for somethaing i hardly ever use, yet buy a $1000 china bike i use every day.. I need to get my priorities straight. :stumped: |
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