> 105 mpg for a motorcycle is good, but... In my youth, I had a 1969
> Honda CM90E that got over 200mpg (no I'm not that old, it was antique
> when I got it). Zero to 60 was not a problem, as the bike topped out
> at about 58mph.
The remarkable Peter Egan once restored a Honda Stepthrough from 1964 or so
and took it for a 300 mile drive in the company of a friend on a racing
bicycle. He averaged 168mpg on the trip. The classic comment was "I couldn't
make a gas tank leak that slowly, let alone power an engine with it." The
cyclist was annoyed that Peter spent less on gasoline than the pedaller
spent on power bars ;-) Whatever happened to that technology? Or even to the
Hondas I remember from the early eighties which got close to 50mpg?
David Lieb
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