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Originally Posted by sendler
I commute on I81 and could never do it safely on a bike with less than 70 mph of useable cruise speed. I average 68 and follow along in the slow lane.
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I mean on average, though.
Granted, for my own commute, I have the option of getting on the freeway and hitting 70 for part of it, but choose not to.
I'd venture to guess that most commuters in the world don't commute daily on roads that allow them to go 70mph, whether it be because of traffic, or a 55mph speed limit.
But anywho, any ecomodding is good ecomodding, and I totally agree that you should go with the flow of traffic; for me, 60mph is still plenty fast for most of the way I was talking about earlier (through the mountains). My scooter may one day be able to go 70mph, but I doubt it would do it efficiently in a 30mph headwind, up a hill.
Also, while we're struggling to get 100mpg at 70mph, got to remember we got 470mpg back in 85, at 55mph.
I'm trying to figure out how slow the acceleration was though. I wonder if it took Matsu 5 minutes to get to 55mph or something crazy.