WhooHoo! A new personal best: 93.47 miles per gallon! [View All]

As some of you already know (Since I mention it every chance I get)
my Sweetie's entire family chipped in to get me a single present last Xmas:
a Honda scooter.

I've put 270 miles on it since then, and I'm getting comfortable
enough that I've stopped using my ENTIRE brain to be afraid of cars,
and have been able spend a small amount of my attention maximizing
my mileage over the last 2 weeks.

I've been riding the same route to my "shop space" where I'm working
on my current , so I know the streets and traffic patterns pretty well now.

I was averaging about 80mpg previously, riding randomly.
But I've instituted a few new ideas, now that I know the terrain:

On the roughest streets, I leave off of the throttle and zig-zag
through the potholes instead of braking and accelerating 10 times.

When there's no one behind me, I accelerate gently from stop signs,
run 5mph below the speed limit, and COAST down hills.

On flat streets, I've discovered that "half throttle" gets me up
to 30 miles an hour only 2 seconds slower than FULL throttle,
so I only use "full throttle" when there's a car behind me who
might want to get up to 30 in under 15 seconds...

I filled up this morning, noted my odometer reading and gallons pumped
as always; when I got home and did the math: WOW!

I was blown away by the difference. I was averaging 80mpg, and hoping
that my new scootin' regimen might have bumped it to 85.

But it was 93! Almost 93 and a half!

I put 56 miles on my little scooty-puff, and it cost me $1.94 to do it.
($1.94 worth of PREMIUM even, not regular!)

I'm just so THRILLED, I had to tell somebody. Thanks for listening! :hug:

Richard