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Posted by J. Clarke on July 3, 2008, 5:21 am
The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> Rarely do I go over 80mph... So tell me how slow should I go? 5th
>> gear and 2,500rpm lugging it severly?
>
> Nope. That uses as much fuel as high speed riding, really, as the
> throttle's being held wide open rather a lot.
>
> Just trundle it. Use the overrun rather than the brakes. Gentle use
> of
> the throttle, etc. It's boring as all hell and not representative of
> the real world, granted, and no sane person would ride like that
> every day, but you can get extraordinary mileage if ou're perverse
> enough, Witness what people manage to do on these economy runs they
> organise.
>
> Kawasaki used to claim, in the mid-1970s oil crisis, that you could
> get something like 56mpg out of the old H2 at a steady 45 or
> something
> ridiculous. Like anyone ever tried...
In Craig Vetter's first fuel economy contest three Harleys got better
than 80 mpg on a 44 mile highway run (or perhaps it was 88--I'm not
clear on whether the mileage was measured outbound, inbound, or
out-and-back--with the best of them getting 101 (but he was
disqualified on a technicality--he had modified his fairing).
I don't know what's on it, but I suspect that anybody trying to get
high mileage out of a motorcycle would probably find the 25 bucks for
Craig's DVD worthwhile--by the time his contests were done someone had
gotten better than 300 MPG on the highway, but not on a bike that one
would be practical for daily transportation.
>> I await your response with baited
>> breath.
>
> 'Bated' unless you've a trap in your ditto.
Maybe he's been eating sushi.
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--John
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