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Old 08-30-2011, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Newton is costing me MPG - The hills thread

Like most here I'm keen to tune my technique given my environment and routes - but hills are killing me. There is one climb of about a mile on my "to" work route which costs me 3-6 MPG (my trip is only 20 miles or so) as it is quite steep. So I would like some advice on the best method to handle it...

- take a run at them and bleed off speed
- P&G, even with reduced G
- steady throttle and ignore the beeps
- DWL and ignore the increasing beeps
- get em over with asap.
- something else

And maybe include advice based on vehicle size, engine type, turbo or not, even driver weight maybe.

If I can crack this then 80 MPG is mine.

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