cage/bike fuel economy

[ratbyk]

Fuel Economy?

Lets see now. Each of the 350's in the boat will use up 10-12 gals an hour. Maybe average 32 MPH. So say 22 gals an hour to cover 32 miles. Works out to .6875 gals per mile. This is not taking into account warm up time or any other of real life situations while using a boat. Likely average .5 gals a mile.
Sure hope he has someone Else's credit card! When you factor in the fun factor between operating the boat and the XS @ 35 MPG on the XS looks pretty good. I sold my 24' boat with a 260 HP Merc Cruiser last Oct. just because of the fuel costs. My head would not let me throw $ away on fuel like that. I had/have as much fun on the bike as I did in the boat. Maybe more.
Ken/Sooke

[fredintoon]

Boats got fuel options

Hi Ken,
I hope you didn't give up the sea altogether because there's a way you can go boating and not spend a penny on fuel. An aluminum pole and a few square yards of Dacron will move a boat (or a ship, come to that) quite handily with the power of the wind and that's a thing which can't be done on the highway.
As far as the fun factor is concerned, 12mph in a planing dinghy is the fastest you will ever go in your life.
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[ratbyk]

Boats

Fred I have down sized to a 14.5' fiberglass runabout with a 40HP Evinrude and an 8HP Suzuki kicker. The 40 pushes this little boat away to fast for the hull. As far as speed goes, I have gone in excess of 260kph on an 82 Suzuki Katana 1100 that I bought new. I put a set of 37mm Smooth Bores on it with a Yosh pipe, competition valve springs and some head work. The speedo went to 260 and the bike would just romp up past that and still be accelerating like crazy. Never did let it out all the way. Things get going by away to fast at 150 plus.
Of course that was 20 years ago. I've mellowed a bit. Don't often get over a 160 KPH anymore. (like this morning)
With a grin.
Ken/Sooke

[fredintoon]

Apparent speed

Hi Ken,
it's not how fast you go (for instance; right now you are travelling due east at ~600 mph along with the rest of the world at BC's latitude) it's how fast it seems. Although I have nibbled at the magic "ton" a time or two on empty straight roads my fastest apparent speed on two wheels was riding Curly Forbes' Vincent Black Shadow doing 90mph up Filton Hill, but that was in a 30mph zone on a Saturday morning (You can tell how long ago that was, when someone would actually lend you a Vincent). Planing sailboats taken out when the weather service calls a small boat warning give excellent apparent speed too but my fastest trip ever was exactly that, a trip; all the way down the basement stairs along with a kitchen stove I was trying to move down there. I doubt I was going more than 5 mph and it turned out I hadn't broken my leg, it only felt like it but it sure seemed I was travelling a lot faster than that during the fall.
Fred Hill, S'toon.

[crashman]

97 Chevy 3/4 ton 4x4 heavy duty ext. cab long bed-11 mpg city/17 hwy

87 Chevy 3/4 ton full size long W/B custom high top van-BAD city/13 hwy

78 1100 E 30 mpg city/hwy

What is this term "fuel economy" anyway? I'm not familiar with it!