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Old 10-29-2021, 05:48 PM   #401 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
How the heck did he get 55mpg on a 'glide? Bets I ever got was 30 with an actual streamlined vetter style windshield.
This would have been in the day of the National 55 MPH speed limit, as with my Honda Enduro. If that made a difference.
I rode the Harley locally, but never on a road trip, so I can't personally vouch for the numbers. Fifty-five mph seemed effortless.
My brother would ultimately teach early- model H-D, at MMI in Phoenix. I couldn't count the number of MCs he's built. He was a very accomplished mechanic and machinist, helping to create Caterpillars for Eagle-Pritcher, in Lubbock. We, as a family, always did our own wrenching. Mom & Dad bought us all Craftsman tool sets by junior high, so the three of us boys were pretty twisted early in life.
Other than a good state of tune, and maybe Lubbock's reduced air density ,I don't don't have an explanation for the Electroglide's mileage.

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