I Can't Drive ........55!

The freeways out here in California are so congested they're often bumper to bumper especially during rush hour (plus the hundreds of auto accidents slowing everything to a crawl) so you can barely go faster than 30 mph most of the time anyway.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

conserve?!!?!??!

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

you can't be serious!!!!

what country are you from?


all the best.

This is going to go over well.

Like a lead balloon argh.

Larry Mohr

According to a friend who sells them, he's getting a *lot* of people asking how nice a commuter bicycle they can get for a $600 rebate check.

You know the last Bicycle I was on folded up like an accordian. Until they build bikes decent why buy one??

Larry Mohr

If I didn't work an hour from home, I'd be perfectly willing to take a bus, train, whatever. Hell, before I got this job, I was riding a bike 3 miles to work. I did it for three years.

I think i've earned the right to drive 65.

Larry - As long as you're short of 600 pounds, a halfway decent bicycle, built up by a bike shop, is not going to do that. My opinion is a bike like a Trek 820 (steel "mountain") or 7000 (simplest hybrid), for under $300, is more bike quality for the inflation-adjusted money than at any other time in history. For bikes under $500, though, avoid anything "suspension".

Note I said decent. Wal-Mart does not count for any of a hundred reasons.

So that was My problem. Going to Wally World to get My Bike. THAT figures. Thanks for the 411. Lawnchair

Larry

Most cars get the best mileage between 45 and 55 mph. For every mile per hour over 60 mph, fuel economy drops by an average of around 1 percent.

Posted by rcade

That's kind of a general statement. I had a Firebird with an LT1 that got 28mpg at 85 mph and would go way over 135mph. Go figure. Aint no way I would get much better milage because that was at 2000 rpm. Maybe a little better but not much. Cars have their sweet spots.

Cool idea. America let's pick a day and everyone drive side by side 20 mph down all the freeways!

All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher
Low rider drives a little slower
Low rider is a real goer
Low rider knows every street yeah!
Low rider is the one to meet yeah!
Low rider don't use no gas now
Low rider don't drive too fast
Take a little trip
Take a little trip
Take a little trip and see
Take a little trip
Take a little trip
Take a little trip with me

My nieces and son have always told me I drive like an old lady. I seldom go over 62 or 63 on the interstate. I never do jackrabbit starts or accelerate just to brake a few feet before the red light (I can't figure out why in the world people do this). I use cruise control when I can. Keep oil and fluids changed as necessary.

Not only do I save on gas, my vehicles last 200 kmiles without major maintenance costs. (I've never owned a vehicle that had engine or transmission problems and I'm 52 YO) Tires last longer. Never a speeding ticket or the higher insurance premiums that go with them.

Better than saving gas, I see more of the world when I'm going slower on the road.

Goatman by You going slower just means more prone to being flipped off oh and You don't see anymore of the world going slower than You would going faster because the distance traveled would be the same. Just a FYI.

Larry Mohr

Better than saving gas, I see more of the world when I'm going slower on the road.

Just from that post, I will make some assumptions about you goat...

It's boring as hell in your car while you are going that slow. Actually, your car itself is probably boring as hell. LOL :)

To save gas, everyone should buy a motorcycle. I just bought a Gixxer 600. It's fun as hell and gets GREAT gas mileage...

I HAMMER down driving, and get like 20 MPG. Am considering an Ultimate Hybrid, they go 0-60 in 7 seconds. Now can I live with a 4 cylinder, and having the engine cut in and out..and the extra weight of the batteries??? I'm going to test drive one, though i might end up in an 09 Maxima.

Gas price is going nuts, and i'm really glad I never went SUV. I saw the EPA numbers on a new escalade, and at 7 MPG city, yikes!!!!!

You don't see anymore of the world going slower than You would going faster because the distance traveled would be the same. Just a FYI.


Untrue, Larry. The slower you go (imagine if you were walking vs driving) the more you see.

Just a FYI.

Goatman by You going slower just means more prone to being flipped off

Again, not true, Larry. The only time I've been flipped off are a couple of times I've accidently cut someone off. I've never been flipped off for going a few MPH slower than the speed limit. They must have real assholes in KS if you are flipped off for doing 63 in a 70 and you stay in the right hand lane.

Actually, your car itself is probably boring as hell.

It is a chevy pickup. Nothing fancy; I actually have to roll down the windows and shift manually. I'm one of those who can't see the sense in spending money for a flashy car. The flashy ones do the same as my cheapo truck: they get you from point "A" to point "B". But I'm not out to impress the world.

Actually, your car itself is probably boring as hell.

It is. And paid for.

The flashy ones do the same as my cheapo truck: they get you from point "A" to point "B".

I am of the belief that a car is an extension of your personality. Plus, I was in an accident about 8 years ago. A person was killed in that accident because they chose to buy an old used piece of shit car to save money. The car died in the middle of a highway and I nearly ran into them. Instead, I hit the man while he was out of the car wondering how he was going to get the car out of a highway. I vowed after that day to NEVER have a crappy car.

Actually, your car itself is probably boring as hell.

I hope you know I was only playing with you...

a new escalade, and at 7 MPG city, yikes!!!!!

Posted by DavetheWave

I do better than that with my 1 ton truck that I have now.

I hope you know I was only playing with you...

I did. I agree with having steel around you. That's why I drive a pickup truck. More massive and you sit up higher. Makes for better defensive driving and I just cannot stand to not be able to see over the car ahead of me.

I am of the belief that a car is an extension of your personality.

It works for me. I, like my old pickup, am boring oil patch trash. *grin*

Instead, I hit the man while he was out of the car

I think I'd be traumatized for life if I hit a human being with my car.

And how much gas is wasted traveling zero mph because municipalities won't set their traffic lights to help traffic flow instead of the "everybody stops and waits at every light" mentality.

Conserve.

LOL I would say thats a liberal idea, but its not conservatives like that as well.

thats why I have 2 Hybrids, a Civic and a Prius in the family.

Why would you want to feed the oil companies more money on purpose? Not me.

When I can afford it one day, I will go 100% electric and charge my car off my 9 KW solar panels on my house.

Kuma

"I had a Firebird with an LT1 that got 28mpg at 85 mph and would go way over 135mph. "

Sniper,

You were reading KPH not MPH. Please retake Drivers Ed.

This Friday is do not buy gas day.

Hold off as long as you can.

I remember back in 1987 when they raised the speed limits from 55 to 65 and the fatality rate dropped by 1/3.
Slow people kill inocent people.

Rick-
re: "I remember back in 1987 when they raised the speed limits from 55 to 65 and the fatality rate dropped by 1/3."

I'm sure you will provide a link to the study without delay...

if i went any slower i wouldn't arrive to work until the next day - already, the purple hairs are passing with their middle fingers hanging out their windows at me. jeesh...

goatman - while backing out of a parking space here a few months back i stopped on the local pharmacists rear tire with my back bumper - muddied up my bumper a little, but put me on the list of people in town to stay out of the way of! they now give my new car a wide berth - no chance of hitting a person dangit. hopefully, if we ever need a prescription, he'll give us a cut rate?

unclesam - i'll top my tank thursday then - i'd not heard of this event on friday.

I don't hit the highway much, due to high gasoline prices; but on a recent trip across Iowa on US 20, I was doing 60 MPH the whole time (65 MPH limit), and I was passing more than being passed, even by large trucks. Also, there seemed to be very few vehicles of ANY type running down the road on a Friday afternoon.

The demand for gasoline may have finally become sensitive to price. Two years ago, I would have guessed three dollars would do it.

You know we think 3.50 dollars a gallon is high. They are talking 7 to 10 bucks a gallon in 2 or 3 Years. Some more of those Jowel wearing fugly folks are going to be rich on the backs of the poor shmucks. What a disgrace THAT is.

Larry Mohr

"They are talking 7 to 10 bucks a gallon in 2 or 3 Years."

If we keep spending 12 billion per month in Iraq count on it. Americans need to wake the fuck up....you can't just keep spending trillions of dollars without paying the taxes to balance it.
There is no free lunch and there are certainly no free wars.

"They are talking 7 to 10 bucks a gallon in 2 or 3 Years."

If we keep spending 12 billion per month in Iraq count on it. Americans need to wake the fuck up....you can't just keep spending trillions of dollars without paying the taxes to balance it.
There is no free lunch and there are certainly no free wars.