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Old 04-01-2011, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by AFSOCSGT
My Harley gets 35-40, depending on throttle application lol. And is loads of fun, especially when people have there windows down.
Freak people out by doing that while sitting on your bike in your truck bed in traffic. But for full effect, you must be facing the car behind you, staring at the driver, with the truck tailgate down....
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#1 way to get more mpg. Sell your truck and buy a moped. Trucks don't get good gas mpg's period.
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I owned 5 bikes, 1981 Yamaha 125 enduro, 1997 Suzuki Bandit 600, 1985 Yamaha Virago 1000 or 1100???, 2001 Suzuki GSXR 600, and the Harley I am riding now is actually my Dad's, he hardly ever rides it so I am borrowing it to save gas on my 40 mile a day commute. The Harley is comfortable, but I miss my GXER.
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Originally Posted by pickupsrule
Freak people out by doing that while sitting on your bike in your truck bed in traffic. But for full effect, you must be facing the car behind you, staring at the driver, with the truck tailgate down....
Drivers already suck on HWY 98, that would cause mass casualities,
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Originally Posted by Supertimmy48
#1 way to get more mpg. Sell your truck and buy a moped. Trucks don't get good gas mpg's period.
I couldn't do a moped if you paid me, there is a guy a work with that has a diesel VW and a Lotus and bought a 250 cc Moped to save gas, Nope couldn't do it, would rather ride my mountain bike.
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Me neither just saying why buy a damn truck if you are worried bout gas mileage I don't car if gas hits $10 gallon I'm rolling in my f150
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I'm sure many guys and gals bought there trucks when gas was a dollar or two cheaper. Gas milage really didn't matter in 97-03 when trucks and suv's were all the craze. It matters now. I remember gas was .69 cpg in the summer of 1997. Go figure I had a Escort at the time.

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Originally Posted by Supertimmy48
Me neither just saying why buy a damn truck if you are worried bout gas mileage I don't car if gas hits $10 gallon I'm rolling in my f150
Hell ya same here
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Cold air intake, be really mellow on the gas. Stop slow and smooth, but I mean it's a truck so your never gonna get good gas mileage. That's out of the question
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Originally Posted by AFSOCSGT
My Harley gets 35-40, depending on throttle application lol. And is loads of fun, especially when people have there windows down.

Wow, what the hell kind of harley is it? Fat tire chop? Trike? Bagger with everything in the chrome catalog? Pre-Evo? Sidecar?


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