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Old 11-27-2007, 01:44 PM   #391 (permalink)
MetroMPG
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Blackfly - '98 Geo Metro
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90 day: 70.75 mpg (US)

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Finished securing the front batteries yesterday. Also started on the rear rack.

Ivan's basically out of the picture for helping on the project for the foreseeable future: baby due any day, and he started a new job with a 200 km daily commute (nutbar!) rather than the 8 km r.t. commute for which the ForkenSwift's minimum range requirement was originally made.
and from the peanut gallery...

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You're going to need more batteries. :-)
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Nutbar indeed, I guess it's your job to drive it then?

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