I owned a bicycle shop for years. A bicyclist will have a higher average speed on a hilly course than on a flat course. I have no idea how this applies to my Westy. At 08:32 PM 10/28/99 -0700, Davidson wrote: >Now if you have about an equal amount of up hill and down hill you might >expect that the negative effect of gravity on your gas mileage going up hill >would be balanced by the positive effect of gravity on your gas mileage >going down hill. But that is not the case. I expect you will get low gas >mileage figures even if the amount of uphill and down hill is equal Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- It ain't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong. |
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