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Odometer and trip distances different on 1991 K75RT

WalterK75

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I just got back from a ride and noticed the difference between the odometer and trip distances recorded. I rode 88.00 kms and the odometer should have read 120,822 kms, but it read 120,924 kms! Off by 102 kms. First time I've ever seen this one. I don't mind putting on kms, but at least I should be actually riding them.

I'm assuming the mechanism just clicked over improperly and it's a one time thing. Fingers crossed.

Any other ideas about this?
 
There have been problems with the little plastic gears that operate the odometer on K bike instrument clusters.. they loose teeth. Usually that results in a non-working odometer, but I would guess if the lost tooth ended up in the wrong way, it could result in the odometer registering more miles than it should have. The odometer is driven by a small stepper motor in the cluster through a small gear-chain.

There was someone somewhere who made replacement gears, and there was a writeup on replacing them, but I can't really recall where.. you might take a looksee on the IBMWR K-tech pages. If it was documented - that's likely where you'll find it. www.ibmwr.org
 
I just got back from a ride and noticed the difference between the odometer and trip distances recorded. I rode 88.00 kms and the odometer should have read 120,822 kms, but it read 120,924 kms! Off by 102 kms. First time I've ever seen this one. I don't mind putting on kms, but at least I should be actually riding them.

I'm assuming the mechanism just clicked over improperly and it's a one time thing. Fingers crossed.

Any other ideas about this?

Perhaps the odometer measures the back wheel, and the trip meter measures the front wheel?

JUST Kidding !! :wave

I was just trying to add a little levity!
 
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