Longest Coast

[brucey]

Just curious, what are some of your guys longest coasts?

I realized this the other day when my part of trip that goes into Cumberland I'm in neutral for 6 or 7 miles (I'll get an exact reading)

The terrain rises and falls, but overall it is a huge (11% grade) drop from the Eastern Continental Divide down into Cumberland itself. Half the time I put the car in gear just to keep control of the speed.

[CigaR007]

I would say 1 mile. Then again, it's pretty flat where I live.

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by brucey

Just curious, what are some of your guys longest coasts?

I realized this the other day when my part of trip that goes into Cumberland I'm in neutral for 6 or 7 miles (I'll get an exact reading)

The terrain rises and falls, but overall it is a huge (11% grade) drop from the Eastern Continental Divide down into Cumberland itself. Half the time I put the car in gear just to keep control of the speed.

How much fuel do you burn going back up?

[capnbass91]

There's a mountain next to Mono Lake in California on highway 395 that it seems like you're coasting forever. I google mapped it and it looks like about 11-12 miles of coasting, might be 5-6, hard to tell on a 2-D picture. Made that trip I think 2 times, love watching my instant mpg go up to 120

[Fr3AkAzOiD]

Only about 2 miles for me.

[brucey]

Originally Posted by Patrick

How much fuel do you burn going back up?

Obviously a lot more, and it's why my trips east always use less fuel than my trips west. It's also why I only started logging round trips instead of E/W.

But going up the mountain, I get about 17~20 mpg. Which works out to 35~40 mpg round trip. "Pulse and glide"

[SentraSE-R]

Truckee, CA to Verdi, NV is 30+ miles with no more than ~3 pulses needed when there's traffic.

[redyaris]

I don't know for sure how long the coast is but it's loooong. I live in the Rocky Mountains and the longest coast is when going over Highwood pass, the top of the pass is over 7000ft I would estimate the longest EOC is 5 - 10 miles. The most frequent long coast I encounter is about 3 miles long, and is quit steep, if I start at the top at 30 mph I can EOC to over 80 mph before I have to brake for the 30mph zone at the bottom of the hill! Talk about a soap box derby!

[Frank Lee]

I had really looong glides in the Coupe when I had that nice 40 mph perfect tailwind and got 69 mpg. Sadly I don't remember how long the p's and g's were.

[SentraSE-R]

Here's one from the loneliest road in America, US Hwy 50, in central Nevada.