Quick mileage update...

[Roaddog2]

If you don't want to rehash it, why such a need to make your point?:dontknow: If you're happy with 87-good for you. Others might like something else, that's their choice. Glad your mileage improved, I get 35 on 93 octane......opcorn:

I see that your stirring the pot what do you have cooking :roflblack:

 

[Roaddog2]

Amen, I am the first to admit that I did not buy L'il Miss Muffet to save on gas. I really want her to put a premium on FUN. As long as there is enough gas not to run out..........I earn a Big A$$ Grin.

:agree:

 

[bone crusher]

I'm not looking at fractions...I just wanna know if it's better for mileage to run at RPMs between 6 and 7...I try to keep them lower on back roads, figuring lower translates to better mileage...however, if for some reason that I cannot figure out, that more engine RPMs is better and more efficient, then I'll gladly run it higher...just can't make the association to better mileage...
:hun:

 

[Dudley]

I'm not looking at fractions...I just wanna know if it's better for mileage to run at RPMs between 6 and 7...I try to keep them lower on back roads, figuring lower translates to better mileage...however, if for some reason that I cannot figure out, that more engine RPMs is better and more efficient, then I'll gladly run it higher...just can't make the association to better mileage...
:hun:

Approaching 10,000 miles on ours since Nov '08. When we go smelling the roses and looking at the cactus flowers, etc., driving in 4th, doing about 40 MPH, on back-country roads, I have gotten 40 MPG, RPMs usually running 4500-5000. But when we are doing 70-75, bucking the infamous California wind gusts, and the Spyder equipped the way it is, we get 30-33 when I mentally calculate, rounding off quite liberally. I do that just for the fun of it. I have a few times been as low as 25 MPG, when the winds were really kicking us and we were doing too many 6% climbing grades.