Subj : Gas Crunch
To   : Tiny
From : richardw
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 18:47:00

  Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Tiny to richardw on Mon Aug 29 2005 12:10 pm

 >  > My commute is about 1 hour each way.  I bought a motorcycle to ease the
 >  > pain.  It works nicely.  :-)
 > 
 >   I ride to work as much as I can as well.  The problem with my job is I am
 > sometimes forced to go work at a customers location, which is fine unless it
 > rains and then I look bad showing up drenched.  (I do keep a change a clothe
 > in my office for this reason, so it's okay coming back).
 > 
 >   Even on my bike which is a full sized touring (1986 Yamaha Venture 1300cc)
 > I can ride to work and back, plus service calls, plus driivng my kid
 > /girlfriend around on a single $20 tank of fuel for about a week!

I love it.  I bought my bike about 1 month ago... I've already put about 
2500 miles on it.  

I'm about to add a backrest, saddlebags, a "trunk" bag, and put new tires 
on it.  Then it will suffice as a nice touring bike. 

I get about 45mpg with it.

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