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larrybuck · 08-10-2013, 12:13 AM

When you pull into your favorite grocery parking lot in 2nd gear just fast
enough not to rile anybody, then you do figure 8's and so on to USE all
of that energy before final parking as who wants to use the brakes when
not really needed?

This would be a great lesson to show a passenger how lovely something
rolling can go on and on, and always reminds me not to waste in other places.

I'm happy to have returned to a place where I have lived before, where the side roads have a stop sign about every mile, the road is perfect straight,
a faster car from behind can easily be waved by, and its great fun to dial
in the glide point at different speeds going toward the distant stop sign;
so quiet a road inviting the PERFECT glide to the stop sign without ever
touching the brake.

Can life get much better than this?

08-10-2013, 12:13 AM	#1611 (permalink)
larrybuck Master EcoModder Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: sw Washington (state), a little north of Vancouver Posts: 1,154 Thanks: 298 Thanked 122 Times in 88 Posts	anti rolling resistance galore! When you pull into your favorite grocery parking lot in 2nd gear just fast enough not to rile anybody, then you do figure 8's and so on to USE all of that energy before final parking as who wants to use the brakes when not really needed? This would be a great lesson to show a passenger how lovely something rolling can go on and on, and always reminds me not to waste in other places. I'm happy to have returned to a place where I have lived before, where the side roads have a stop sign about every mile, the road is perfect straight, a faster car from behind can easily be waved by, and its great fun to dial in the glide point at different speeds going toward the distant stop sign; so quiet a road inviting the PERFECT glide to the stop sign without ever touching the brake. Can life get much better than this? __________________ 06 Chev MonteC JG#24tribute car 30mpg 00 Honda Insight 63MPG 98 Buick Park Ave3.8 33MPG 89 Toyota Corolla wag 60MPG so far 81 VW Rabbit diesel pu 50MPG+ 80 Mercedes 240D stick 30-ish 90 vette 6-speed,29ish 07 Honda ST1300 55MPG 83 Honda 650 GL 64MPG 19 Suzuki dr200 88MPG23 HondaGrom?+Tow K10D Sub 26mpg NEVER,NEVER GIVE UP! PUMP THOSE TIRES UP! DRIVE IN YOUR SOCKS FOR SENSITIVITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SLOW DOWN AND SMOOTH UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!