Thread: 600 Mile-Club
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Old 10-27-2006, 08:34 PM
shawnb shawnb is offline
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Default 600 Mile-Club

I've attached a photo of my current tank of gas at 598.6 Miles traveled and 52.2 MPG. I'm not done with the tank so sometime soon I'll update the photo when it crosses over 600 miles since I'm sure I have 1.5 miles remaining on the tank of gas (in fact, since the last bar just dissapeared and its rumored to dissapear at 11 gallons consumed, I'm sure I have another 50 miles at least.

Again, most of you know my terrain but I commute to work 31 miles each day and there are lots of hills in both directions up and down and I have a few miles between freeway and home that is all uphill to my house and downhill away from but there are about 3 or so lights each mile in that stretch and I *always* catch reds so I always have to stop and then accelerate. Even on a course (550 miles plus on the tank) that takes 25 miles of near perfect hypermiling (80+ MPG for 90%+ of the trip just to get .1 MPG gained) I lost .2 MPG going up the hill. I did find a new route today that actually has many greens and allows me to travel at 35 MPH using 55 MPGs up the hill for 4.8 miles from freeway to house. I'll travel it home more days and see if it helps. I figure if I perfect it, then I should be pulling 56 MPG soon.

Oh, two of the days in this tank of gas had wind. One day I was with the wind for 31 miles and was averaging 90+ on the MPG meter the whole way at 1,100 RPM and one day (this morning) I was averaging 55 MPG against the wind at 2,200 RPM.

http://www.zenofdotnet.com/downloads...tTankSoFar.jpg

Thanks,
Shawn

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