DieselBob wrote on 02/05/17 at 07:17:23:Since the contest requires a mileage reading to do the calculations and our speedo mileage comes from a transmission connection that means
the rear tire is the one the speedo measures and it does it by simply counting rotations, so any old powersliding revolution, slipping on loose gravel revolution or sliding revolutions across a slippery tree trunk would be counted equally as "mileage".
These would all actually be "bonus mileage", as the rear wheel is making extra turns for the distance that is actually covered.
And, all his wheelie stuff would come across as good mileage too, since the rear wheel stays engaged to the pavement and revolves along, pacing off the same distance as normal riding would do.
My rear tire is still in play in the contest, but all the rest of the people that entered have replaced their rear tires since then, sold their bikes or dropped off the list,
so by default my
0.4 cent per mile real cost of ownership was the grand winner of the people
actually entering real bikes with real non-imaginary (non- remembered) real bike mileage.
And I shouldn't have won it since I still go to the Dragon multiple times each year and rip up on my rear tire something fierce a doing that Dragon stuff.
Apparently having a lot more tread width to rip up on means the overall depth isn't changing quite as badly in the middle as one would think (as on a bike tire for example).
I still haven't gotten the free beer which was the substance of the contest, either. 
Click on the screenshot .jpeg attachment just below this line to get a full sized view of the contest sheet.
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