September 8th, 2013, 08:03 PM | #1 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
Name: Vic
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SF Bay Area Ninjetters invited for FE/fun runs 9/27-9/30
Alan Smith and I will be doing some testing on our streamlined Ninja 250's for the upcoming 2013 Vetter Las Vegas Challengehttp://craigvetter.com/pages/2013-Challenges/2013-Las%20Vegas-Challenge.html. We thought we would extend an invitation to our friends here to join us for a ride.
Update: The ride will be on Saturday 9/28/2013, departing at 10:30 AM from a Union 76 Gas station at 200 Greenville Rd., Livermore 94551. The course will be to Mines RD to “The Junction” to a break. Then heading for Patterson on Del Puerto RD. At Patterson we will take a lunch break before heading back on HWY 33 to Corral Hollow/Tesla RD back to the starting point, the union 76 station on Greenville RD. There we fill top off our tanks and compare fuel economy. The pace will be MGR/noobie friendly Total distance is about 114-miles. See you Saturday morning, YMMV. Last futzed with by greenaero; September 23rd, 2013 at 11:18 AM. Reason: update |
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September 8th, 2013, 08:51 PM | #2 |
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Name: Rebecca
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I'm down for any time sep 27-29.
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September 8th, 2013, 09:20 PM | #3 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
Name: Vic
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Great! Hopefully we'll get some more riders.
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September 9th, 2013, 12:03 AM | #4 |
Jigglin' your Jiglets
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That saturday
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September 9th, 2013, 09:01 AM | #5 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
Name: Vic
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Hi Sean, Great! Saturday 9/28 would work fine so far. SO that's 4 of us so far.
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September 9th, 2013, 09:13 AM | #6 |
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I'm up for that Saturday.
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September 9th, 2013, 09:38 AM | #7 |
sail away
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tough mudder that weekend
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September 9th, 2013, 02:14 PM | #8 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
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And Adi makes 5 !
Jon, Sorry you can't make it Saturday, next time perhaps. |
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September 9th, 2013, 09:34 PM | #9 |
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Im free as long as its after 1pm. Unfortunately I have work from 9am-1pm.
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September 11th, 2013, 09:55 AM | #10 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
Name: Vic
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Hi Loren, 1 PM is probably too late a start for most people but we'll see. So far it looks like the consensus for the ride is for Saturday 9/28/13.
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September 23rd, 2013, 11:19 AM | #11 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
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Bump, check the first post for the latest
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September 23rd, 2013, 11:24 AM | #12 |
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Damn I forgot about this. It's hard to decide between this and a ride for pie...
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September 23rd, 2013, 11:50 AM | #13 |
King Hamfist
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September 23rd, 2013, 11:54 AM | #14 |
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September 27th, 2013, 08:25 AM | #15 |
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The ride will be tomorrow. Saturday 9/28/2013, departing at 10:30 AM from a Union 76 Gas station at 200 Greenville Rd., Livermore 94551. The course will be to Mines RD to “The Junction” for a break. Then heading for Patterson on Del Puerto RD. At Patterson we will take a lunch break before heading back on HWY 33 to Corral Hollow/Tesla RD back to the starting point, the Union 76 station on Greenville RD. There we fill top off our tanks and compare fuel economy. The pace will be MGR/noobie friendly Total distance is about 114-miles. See you tomorrow, thx Vic
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September 28th, 2013, 04:29 PM | #16 |
Motorcycle Hypermiler
Name: Vic
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I got back from our ride earlier afternoon. It was just Alan and me so we went on our usual fuel economy testing route rather than the route we had initially planned. Alan rode his non-streamlined Ninja 250 that he has raised the gearing to 15/33 and used a small aero-trunk that he made. Alan has had the valve timing changed for more low-end torque. I rode my streamliner on which I had added a bellypan and raised the back of the windscreen. My gearing is also 15/33. The weather was perfect; warm to hot with gentle winds. We rode to Tesla RD, to Corral Hollow Rd to Tracy then crossed over to Hwy 33 to Patterson. We stopped there for some lunch and had some great burritos. We reversed our route back to the gas station and refilled. Alan went the 106.7 miles on .893 gallon for 119.48 mpg. I went the 106.7 miles on .728 gallon for 146.6 mpg. This was a new personal best for me. It was also a best for Alan on this bike. A very good day all in all.
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