Week of May 21th - May 27th, 2007 (US Ave $3.18)

I'm pretty sure it won't affect it much, Wayne. Maybe you want to get a winch so you can just latch her onto something and pull her where ever you want to go?

Sleeping at the work lot to avoid the rain or worse traffic?

 

Oh yuck! I hope you got some sleep at least.

 

M'lady and I took the two-wheeler out today to Jamestown, VA. Most of the ride was on rural byways, with a ferry ride across the river at Jamestown. Great weather and scenery. And great FE. I filled up yesterday and then again today just before getting home. 65.6 MPG for ~140 miles. I'm not doing anything aggressive, hypermiling-wise -- just accelerating modestly, cruising at the speed limit, and minimizing braking.

 

M'lady and I took the two-wheeler out today to Jamestown, VA. Most of the ride was on rural byways, with a ferry ride across the river at Jamestown. Great weather and scenery. And great FE. I filled up yesterday and then again today just before getting home. 65.6 MPG for ~140 miles

That's great for a bike!
What make/model??

 

A bunch of extra segments today, as I was plotting out possible MPG clinic courses for HF'07. (And "evaluating" for high-FE ) Fantastic day for a drive, or just about anything else done outside.

80.5 / 4.6 miles / 63F
62.3 / 2.3 miles / 72F
110 / 9.6 miles / 73F



61.3 / 3.1 miles / 73F

The rest were all with a warm engine, no shutdown between segments, 73F:

87.3 / 8.0 miles
89.2 / 5.4 miles
96.6 / 7.7 miles <-- maybe we should use this one for the clinic course
87.2 / 7.7 miles
88.0 / 9.4 miles

Then one actual stop with shutdown, and a last segment of

74.1 / 5.3 miles

A daily average of 86.4 over 63.1 miles.

The tank is at 77.6 (!) / 612 miles / still 2 pips. The last and only other time I was at 612 miles I had one flashing pip and was pretty seriously looking for a gas station.

 

1997 Honda Shadow VLX 600.

The previous owner said he'd gotten about 48 MPG, but my "lifetime" average is just a hair over 60, with a mixture of urban, suburban, and highway driving.

 

Well, I think I'm done driving for the day so here's the numbers.
1) 54.2-5.2 miles(home to church)
2) 69.4-5.2(church to home)
3) 60.8-9.1(home to the buffet)
4) 67.0-9.2(buffet to home)
Average for the day: 62.5

 

Took the Accord to Norman Ok. to pickup my mother for a few days of visiting. Before taking her on up to Owasso to spend time with my brothers family.

Anyway we took the Accord to go fetch mother. The trip was 218 miles total. We used the same route going and coming. We had southern winds from 10 to 20 mph. This had us in a cross wind for 85% of the trip or so. The resulting heads winds wrecked there havoc and the resulting tail winds ,,, just were not much help. Had rain and wet weather going to boot.

I transfered the SG to the Accord and tried to prepare myself for 5AT hell. Limbered the wrist up for the awful key only restarts and took off.

Seeing Ive not put any real drive time into this car the last 6 months I gave it my best shot.

Going: Current showed 40.6 and tank at 40.6 when I pulled up in my susters driveway. High was 41.5 on the trip.

Coming back: 40.6 and tank at 40.8 when we got back to the house. High was 44.5 about 9 miles out of Norman.

I was reminded what a great car the Accord is except for the *&(^%#^%$ (*$%$#^%*&( *(&*$%$# 5AT. I did not fas the Accord as much as I would of the Civic cause of the &*@$#^%(* (*&*&%@76 )(*&%^56578 5AT. The key starts really bug the crap out of me. Its like they never ever end! And the endless stereo reboots. Its all so ( 7 letter word ) annoying. Dumping the clutch and bump starting is WAY better.

I will be taking mother on to my brothers in the Civic.

psy

 

Hey, cool stuff, Wayne! 75mpg?!?

Psyshack -- I was sure happy when I learned bump starting a few weeks ago.

Didn't drive at all today. Leg power only.

 

So, Psy, how do you like the 5AT?

 

Wayne, I think you're the only one who would say they had to push it and still manage >49mpg in a normal Accord!

I'll be driving back today -- we'll see if I can keep the wife from going crazy with lots of FASing.

 

PaleMelanesian -- sweet numbers!! What was the terrain like and what were the speed limits?

 

Sounds like perfect hypermiling terrain -- thanks for sharing! It is nice to get a feel for what a given vehicle is good for on terrain that is reasonably well defined.

I didn't do so well today. There was a 25mph headwind and at 81F the wife was wilting. I gave in and did P&G with NICE ON for good sections with the AC on during the glide portion. (Have to keep the peace, after all!) Got back and took her to Noodles down the road and she threatened murder if I made her put up with any more of that so I had to run the AC continuously without shutting down the engine. All I could do was coast in neutral whenever possible... then watch the gauge go down at the light I caught.

Anyway, numbers below:

1) 41.3mpg for 142mi (Cabin to home)
2) 19.4mpg for 1.1mi (Home to Noodles :ccry
3) 33.7mpg for 1.3mi (Noodles to home -- no AC and FASing)

She was a little surprised to see better than 50% improvement on the way back.

This leaves my tank at 41.6mpg over 348mi (350.3mi ODO).

This is about 8mpg better than the last tank I did with a trip to the cabin and back. I'm also sitting at about 1/16 below the 1/2 mark so I have some time to pull that up a bit further. I can't tell at this point whether I've really got the SG over-correcting or not, but at least the gallons used seem to be much closer to what I might expect just guessing from the fuel gauge.

 

Gulp. Shudder. Hit self on side of head... methinks my low 30's that I was feelin' good about just got poofed into confetti.