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Sorry couldn't resist. On a safety note, I was at a MC event where a highway rig had been brought in to show us how their mirrors worked, other words when a MC or car became invisible to them. They set it up with MCs at different distances and positions around the truck.
The first visible MC placed line of bikes directly behind the truck was pretty far out before being visible. Trucks, their tires and the stuff they throw up at you is all potentially fatal.
We won't even discuss the issues that occur when the truck hits and kills a moose, bear or deer and the radiator lets go and dumps offal and anti freeze all over the road.
Those big brown marks on the road are from radiators letting go after an animal strike.
Trucks and retreads concern me I always keep away.
One night crossing the border a truck didn't know I was behind them and I had a car right behind me so I was jammed in as he kept backing up. I got off my MC and ran up the side of his Truck banging on the side, he stopped less than a foot from my bike and the rear overhang was over my front tire. That was a big lesson
adventorider76 said:
I've been experimenting on how to get the best gas mileage on the bike. Not to get to NASCAR on everyone, but I've noticed that while drafting a semi I get around 59 mpg in sport mode. If I draft a car it drops to around 50 mpg, and with no wind assist around 44 mpg. I thought this was interesting and I would share my observations.