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most mileage bikes

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:40 am
by thumprider2000
My A14 is pushing 60k, What newer bikes out there are pushing higher mileages? Other then doohickey replacement no other engine work....thanks

most mileage bikes

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:01 am
by scott quillen
I hope to get at least that from my A1...of course it'll take a few more years...it just turned over 5k miles. ;^) Scott thumprider2000 wrote: My A14 is pushing 60k, What newer bikes out there are pushing higher mileages? Other then doohickey replacement no other engine work....thanks Archive Quicksearch at: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Yahoo! Groups Links __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

most mileage bikes

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:14 pm
by rsanders30117
That's great! Does your A14 use oil? My A14 at 28K miles uses about 1 fl. oz. / 100 miles. It has done this since new with virtually no change. --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "thumprider2000" wrote:
> My A14 is pushing 60k, What newer bikes out there are pushing higher > mileages? > Other then doohickey replacement no other engine work....thanks

solution to oil dependence? nklr

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:00 pm
by Arden Kysely
Cool--our next war can be over platinum instead of oil! __Arden --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Scott" wrote:
> Caltech, MIT Chemists Look for Better Ways to Use Chemical Bonds to
Store
> Solar Energy
snipp...
> The devices used in a simple experiment in the high school
chemistry lab to
> make hydrogen by electrolysis are not currently the cheapest ones
to use for
> mass production. In fact, the tabletop device that breaks water into > hydrogen and oxygen is perfectly clean (in other words, no carbon > emissions), but it requires a platinum catalyst. And platinum has
been
> selling all year for more than $800 per ounce.
snipp...
> The ultimate lab goal is to have a "dream machine with no wires in
it," Gray
> says. "We visualize a solar machine with boundary layers, where
water comes
> in, hydrogen goes out one side, and oxygen goes out the other." > > Such a machine will require a lot of work and a number of
innovations and
> breakthroughs, but Lewis says the future of the planet depends on
moving
> away from fossil fuels.