[T3] Speedometer/Odometer ratio?

[Soren Jacobsen]

On May 30, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Jim Adney wrote:

> I've almost forgotten what this all boiled down to. Was it that .82 
> meant 820 tire revolutions to the mile? In that case, 500 tire 
> revolutions to the km would be exactly right.

Yes, that was the conclusion.

> Interesting that these tires would come to such an even number of 
> revolutions per km. (Perhaps just one more justification for the 
> metric system.  ;-)

Indeed.  I often get envious reading, say, torque values.  Those lucky metric-using folks get such nice even numbers!  Who wants to tighten their lug bolts to 72lb.ft. when they could be tightening to 10mkg.? ;)

Soren