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Originally Posted by ckcarr
Personally I find an optimistic speedometer can be dangerous if you are using it. You get into a herd of traffic that is all speeding or doing the genuine limit and you are believing the speedometer because you are a good citizen (or just got a ticket) and you can get mowed down. I like accuracy.
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On that note, I just finished Sport Riding Techniques by Nick Ienatsch (is that his real name?) and he claims that the California Highway Patrol instructs its moto officers to travel a "little" faster than the flow of traffic for safety reasons. On that basis, I would think you could get away with going traffic flow, plus 2 or 3 mph, at least in CA, regardless of what the speedo said. Not sure this would fly in Utah, but its actually what I pretty much do here.