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Here in Canada, winter provides lots of time to work on bikes, at present I have done some modifications to my GS500 to improve fuel economy. I have extended variouse parts of the fairing to get more continuity. I have instaled aluminum extensions to the front forks to reduce drag caused by the front wheel/fork assembly and have covered the area behind the rider all the way back to the back of the bike. I have also covered the bottom of the bike where the fairig is open. What I am hoping for is 2.5L/100km average fuel consumption. The aproach I am takeing is; how far can one modify the original bike to get improvements, before going to full streamlinning a la Rifle fairing used on the electic race bikes run at Isle of Man TT and the 1982 Vetter fuel economy contest.
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