I was casually cycling home from the shops the other day on my road bike, I had a hoodie trackie bums and a messenger bag full of booze and rice on. A renault clio approached me from behind and the passenger wound down the window and shouted at me over the wind 'mate you now your doing 40 mph right?', now bearing in mind I was on a 3% hill going down and it was wet and I wasnt pushing particularily hard and I wasnt wearing aero clothes I found what he said very hard to believe, however upon glancing through the window the speedo in the car was registering about 37-8 mph. I thanked the occupants of the clio and then raced ahead of them to get through the level crossing in time. I am still at a loss to understand how this is possible, unless the french make very innaccurate speedos which is entirely possible given the state of their cars.
At the end of the day Im just happy that not all drivers are mindless prats, and I was impressed with the respect that they gave me
At the end of the day Im just happy that not all drivers are mindless prats, and I was impressed with the respect that they gave me
IIRC, I think car speedos are allowed to read over not under, they can make the driver seem faster than they actually are but not slower.
