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Date:         Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:18:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
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From:         Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reasonable cruising speed?
In-Reply-To:  <86476e250608031004p1c2fdba3t4c9da7870ab6f34b@mail.gmail.com>
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Loren Busch wrote:


> ...An acquaintance of mine that used to drive a cherry '90 Westy, 4
> speed, and
> never got above 55, consistently got 21 to 23 mpg.  And she put a lot of
> miles on her rig before selling it and going to something bigger.




Indeed, I suspect one reason my 84 got so many trouble-free miles out of
the original engine (220K) was because the speedo was so far off
(indicated 72 = actual 55) that we always thought we were going much
faster than we were.  I knew it was off but didn't fully appreciate by
how much.


Geo






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