Just reminiscing .. as you do ..
Back in the mid 50s, I had a 55 16ms and regularly travelled overnight from RAF Weeton, near Blackpool, to RAF St Eval in Cornwall. And vice versa
Google maps show it as being about 370 miles ..
I don't remember filling up on the way, and, in those days, how many petrol stations would be open over night ..
Surely I couldn't have done that distance on a tankful.
I know I'm not dreaming .. I did do the journeys ..
Fuel consumption .. 16ms
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
4.3 gall tank , possible to achieve 86mpg - 370 miles
good job it wasn't any further away
good job it wasn't any further away
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
You may have done on the leg from Blackpool to Cornwall as on my map it's downhill all the way.
I used to regularly get about 75mpg from my 1954 G3LS but that only held 3 galls.
You must have read that in a manual, Thrifty, 'cos if you ever forked out for a tankful you wouldn't have been able to see the road through the tears.
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
I guess I must have stopped to fill up, but can't imagine where ..
Thanks, folks, for your comments ..
Ps .. don't know how I managed to afford to run a bike at 4/6 a gallon and only earning about 18/- a day .. (SAC in the RAF)
Thanks, folks, for your comments ..
Ps .. don't know how I managed to afford to run a bike at 4/6 a gallon and only earning about 18/- a day .. (SAC in the RAF)
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
It must have been around a 10 hour journey, what comfort stops would you have taken?
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
Pass RAF Weeton once or twice a week, it's still there but a Army camp.
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Seems that's the way most RAF Stations go ..
Couldn't do the Battle of Britain nowadays ..
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Re: Fuel consumption .. 16ms
Yes you could... but it would all be controlled from a cabin on an air base in Nevada!!
I'm from the Fens.... Gimme six.