??? Does anyone have access to your key ??
This reminds me of the father of a friend of mine. Back in the 60's he got rid of a big car with a V8 and bought a VW Beetle. He was being "ribbed" at work about his little car and would?justify himself by bragging about his great fuel mileage.
?Several of his co workers got together and started bringing pint bottles of gasoline to work and pouring it into his tank. He was soon bragging about getting 80-90MPG out of this amazing little car !
? After a couple of weeks they reversed the joke and started siphoning a gallon a day out of his tank.
? They toataly blew his mind and when the "smoke cleared" they all had a good laugh about a fairly harmless joke.?? Thanks for the memories !
Pete Cordell wrote:
Extreme diet? Whoops, no, that sounds like too much of a Dennis
answer....
Well then...riding slower? No more strong Texas headwinds? Austin
gas pumps were shortchanging you? Better gas out here? Finally
checked your tire pressure? Have no idea really. Heck, maybe your
W is just happier out east breathing in that good ocean air...
Pete C
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W650riders@yahoogroups.com, "fatstringme" ...>
wrote:
>
> So I unpacked the W after our move and put oil into it and filled
the tank. Ran about 100
> miles two-up
(read: low rpms so as not to scare the wife), and
filled the tank up again. Did
> the math and got about 45 mpg (up from an average 35'ish). Next
tank full was all me alone
> riding to/from work. Did 103 and filled up with 2.048 gallons. So
about 50 mpg. I didn't
> change anything except moved from Austin (about 600 feet above sea
level, where I was
> getting 35 mpg) to out here at the Chesepeake bay area which I
assume is roughly +1 or so
> feet above sea level. Was I running rich in Austin and went lean
here? Doesn't seem like
> enough altitude change for that drastic a mpg change.
> Also I guess I like to be included on any PA/MD/VA rides or get
togethers if y'all don't mind.
> thanks,
> fatstring
>
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