I just go back from filling up my truck with $60 of gas. Ouch. So I thought I’d look at old posts I had about fuel cost savings. First is that fuel in April 2006 was $2.60, which is more than I thought. Seemed to me out costs had skyrocketed in a year, but they’ve…
Category: Motorcycle
My motorcycle story and motorcycles in general.
Motorcycle fuel comparison
Suzuki knows people are like me, looking at motorcycles because of the cost of fuel. So they have a site that lets you pick one of their fuel effecient bikes and see how much money you’ll save in a year in gas.
Gas Gasp
My car cost 17 cents a mile in fuel to drive right now! Ouch. And prices are suppose to go up. Maybe its time to think about a motorcycle again. Update: Read Ray’s comment where he breaks down his savings by using his motorcycle over his car. And his car gets better milage than my…
Color
Man I seem into these one word titles. Ray you corrupted me. Caught the picture at the left on sportbikerider.com and liked the look of the bike. Its a BMW. It has a belt drive which I haven’t seen on anything but Harley/Buell. Doing a little research I find out the bike was designed by…
Motorcycle Medics
Via Spoons: Motorcycle medics in Miami. At some point in the next couple of years I’m going to take the EMT course. I’ve always wanted to do it, mainly just to have the skills. Never thought about the two being used together. Of course you need cargo capacity, and the bike’s I’ve looked at don’t…
Motorcycle Race Pictures
I got the pictures from the CMRA races at Texas World Speedway on September 7th developed. They are about what I expected. Too far from everything. I’ve posted them to my .Mac home page.
Fuel efficiency and motorcycles
Gabriel posted a comment asking for suggestions of fuel efficient motorcycles. I haven’t really paid attention to fuel usage on the bikes I’ve been looking at, but I found an AMA article on saving money on fuel costs over cars that I thought was interesting. An interesting comment in the article is most people aren’t…