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Old 06-11-2016, 01:37 AM   #39 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
Team Honda
90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike
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Originally Posted by Grant-53 View Post
Some blue Loctite or some internal tooth lockwashers may help the connections. Now some aero mods may be in order.
I actually did mildly aeromod the build recently. I got rid of the big bulky red panier hanging from the side and replaced it with a triangle bag, a saddle bag, and a handlebar bag. The handlebar bag on the front is meant to help aero a little like a fairing ... a VERY small fairing.

There is a section of bike path that is long atraight and flat where I informally test how many watts I need to keep max speed often. In full tuck I used to need something in the area of the low to middle 300s in watts. Now it dipps into the high 200s, so maybe 350watts reduced to 290.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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