Re: slower vs faster when low on gas, I also have the urge to speed up. But on this bike I've got the computer that tells me my current MPG, and expected (moving average) range on remaining gas, so it was fairly easy to find the most economical speed that would get me there.
The upright/pub food thing helped me gain 5 pounds, dammit. We need to get together again to eat too much, and drink too much thereby getting the wives mad at us again. --Doug On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/12/12 1:13 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> Thanks, Steve, I just got back a couple of weeks ago: >> http://mc-california-trip-**2012.blogspot.com/<http://mc-california-trip-2012.blogspot.com/> >> >> Yes, I had a gas... >> > > Looks like a great trip... I haven't done a long ride in decades... round > trip to ABQ still qualifies. If I had your bike I'd probably forget to > come home... one of the (many) reasons I don't indulge in such awesome > toys. I have much less self-restraint than you (apparently) do. I didn't > see a single picture with beer at breakfast for example! Or skinny > dipping in any of those lakes! Or maybe you are just better at > self-editing than I am. > > All that sitting upright and pub-food, however... surely *that* gave you > gas. Not tempted to route some of that "methane/H2" mixture into the > carbs (oh... probably fuel injected... so into the air intake?) when you > thought you were not going to make the one-gas-station town of Caliente UT? > > Me, I always drive *faster* when I think I might run out of gas... welll, > maybe not any more, but I *did* do that once... not out of ignorance of > aerodynamics and fuel economy, but some kind of willful frustration with > myself and the universe... the last 20 miles *were* downhill and it only > took 2 hours to push/coast into the only gas station open on a Thanksgiving > morning 1976! I could have been there 1:45 earlier *without* pushing if > I'd just ridden very carefully... maybe a little deliberate hypermile > coasting, etc. But noooo! > > Anecdotally yours! > - Steve > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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