Uh oh…

I picked up my new TT250 this morning and I was hoping I’d be able to get on the blog and brag about it nonstop…but I can’t.  The good news is that the speedometer is indeed calibrated in miles per hour, and when I ran it by one of those “your speed is” electric signs it was right on the money.   The sign said 39 mph (I was in a 40 mph zone), and my speedo said 39 mph.  Wow, I thought…this is more accurate than the RX3 speedo.  Then I looked at the odometer and the tripmeter, and they were whirling.   Uh oh.  Steve told me our good buddy Jim, who picked up his bike on Saturday, questioned the same thing.  I took out my cell phone, got on Google maps, and saw that I was 3.5 miles from the plant.  I reset the tripmeter to 0.0 miles and rode back to the plant.   The tripmeter indicated 5.5.   That’s kilometers, folks.  It looks like the Big Zong got the speedo right, but they neglected to recalibrate the odo and tripmeter.

It’s an annoyance and an engineering change control lapse, and we apologize for that.   We’ll make good on it.  I don’t have the details on what we’re going to do yet as I only just confirmed this today, but I can’t see how it could possibly be anything other than replacing the entire speedometer.   We’re talking to the guys in Chongqing, and I’ll let you know as soon as we know.   But don’t fret.   Like I said above, we’ll make good on it.