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redpoint5 · 02-27-2014, 08:31 PM

My 400lb, 600cc motorcycle doesn't achieve 54.5mpg.

The target will not be met.

Who comes up with these efficiency targets, anyhow? Is it even based on science, or did a group of idiots just get together and make a law?

02-27-2014, 08:31 PM	#23 (permalink)
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