Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN>> If I were 20 years old, I would agree.  (-:

 RW>> It's not the age that makes the difference, it's the mentality.

 RN> Oh, the mentality is still there, but at the same time it is
 RN> cognizant of the body's condition, else I'd have been riding my SIL's
 RN> Harley long ago. A Trike is the fad here nowadays.

Backward trikes maybe. Certainly not HD trikes anymore.

 RW>>> Don't mention superior gas mileage either.

 RN>> I'm doing alright.  My only gripe is I have to use premium gas,
 RN>> i.e., 93 octane.

 RW>> MPG?

 RN> The MB?  About 17MPG in the city.  I rarely go out of town with it.

My Z has to use 93o as well. It gets about 15-16 in town. But I don't
drive it very much anymore. Texas roads aren't built for performance
suspensions, they're built for trucks. And the city streets have gone to
hell because of the incompetence of the city manager. He was finally fired
about two weeks ago. City Hall is crumbling around the council as it
struggles to get out from under the rock they've been hiding under.

 RW>> I was headed for Illinois to see my mother on her birthday when my
 RW>> friend Andrew told me that he was packing up for a trip to see his
 RW>> mother in Minnesota. I was taking the Z28, he was taking his 94
 RW>> Nissan (v6, auto-overdrive - Altima?). We started out together and
 RW>> he thought he could go past the gas station that I'd have to make a
 RW>> stop at. I kept on going for as long as he did, then when he pulled
 RW>> into a station for a fill up I did too. The Z took .23 gallons more
 RW>> than his Nissan, both getting the same mileage out of a 15 gallon
 RW>> tank. Coulda pushed him over with a feather that day. Then I told
 RW>> him I'd like to drive over the speed limit, which cause his Nissan
 RW>> to burn more gas while the Z was slumbering along at 1800 rpm doing
 RW>> 70mph.

 RN> That's interesting.  My Mark VIII gets over 30MPG at 1400RPM on the
 RN> highway at 60 (usually the safest speed to go because the speed
 RN> limits change suddenly and sometimes without warning).

60mph would be on the cusp between 5th and 6th gear in the Z...1400rpm is
too low in 6th and 60mph in 5th is over 1500rpm.

 RN>  The MPG will increase slightly if I'm going north to south, but
 RN> everyone laughs at me when I tell them that. (-:

Dunno why.  8^)


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