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Subject: Re: Double booting
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 03:35:01 -0500, c186282 wrote:

> On 12/8/25 17:41, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 14:59:12 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> 
>>> No, this is intentional calibration of the car speedometer to 5
>>> kilometres low. The reason is that if you see a road limit of 100Km/h
>>> and you do drive at 100Km/h sharp, there is no possibility of you
>>> driving just a bit above the limit and be fined. You could then sue
>>> the car maker for having bad instrumentation that caused you to be
>>> fined.
>> 
>> That's the reason I've heard for Japanese bike speedometers being off.
>> The speedometer in the Toyota is accurate when I'm running the 15"
>> tires it's calibrated for.
> 
>    Yep, tire diameter IS critical.
> 
>    If you have a GPS unit it wouldn't hurt to check speed after getting
>    new rear tires, just in case.

In the case of bikes the speedometer drive is often from the front wheel 
hub.