how many are going to forego the $4/gal meet for the $5/gal one next year?

[ryan roopnarine]

I grow weary of seeing all of the civillians that will attend this year creating threads about such. I was going to go this year, until about the beginning of may, until I realised that my absolute maximum bugeted gas price of $3.50/gallon wasn't going to cut it. I've wanted to go to one of these meets since at least 2006, if only to meet you all. I thought that by not driving to new york in may (as i've had planned for a while) would be enough to offset the cost of going to chicago, but that didn't work out. Borrowing a chevy aveo, flying out of a different airport, nothing is going to cut it unfortunately. anyone else that was going to go before gas prices increased rapidly?

[Jon K]

You're seriously not going to go to the meet only because of a 50 cent gas raise? Seems like there are other things keeping you from going...

[ryan roopnarine]

more like $1.00, plus fewer hours at at work because of reduced customer demand for our product.... (i'd already asked for the 3-4 days off a few months ago) plus the gas and lodging to actually drive around once I got there. it isn't as much of a sustainable hit as it would have been had things stayed the way they were in april. 88 gallons x 3.00=264, x3.50=308, x4=352, plus actually filling the car back up once i got there (i'm sure that in the surrounding chicago area, fuel is well above 4.

[healtoeit]

So when are you going to buy a hybrid?

[ryan roopnarine]

i have no intention of buying a hybrid. i am, however, going to use the spare m50 manifold to do the lpg thing, and buy an ancient japanese motorcycle pretty soon.

[healtoeit]

i have no intention of buying a hybrid. i am, however, going to use the spare m50 manifold to do the lpg thing, and buy an ancient japanese motorcycle pretty soon.

Still, gas will be $4 a gallon and lpg will downgrade your cars performance. I want to get a bike to help w/ gas but in the grand scheme of things it really will not matter, plus you need to look at the price of buying a motorcycle/lpg
Here is what I mean
$1,000 motorcycle cost (which is STUPIDLY low)
$200 helmet (again a really low price)
$100 jacket (again low)
$50 gloves (again low)
and that does not include insurance, boots or pants
Addition teaches us that that comes out to
$1,350
at $4/gallon you could get 337.5 gallons of gas....
And that is just the cost for a motorcycle (a really unrealistic one)
Can you see where I am going with this?

[ThoreauHD]

Well, if you want to ride a motorcycle, might I suggest one that gets 150 MPG.

http://www.saskma.com/content/view/114/6/

http://www.startwin.com/pagina/bikes...understar.htm#

Or the Honda Unicorn which gets 129 mpg.

http://www.indiabike.com/infobank/unicorn/index.htm
http://www.honda2wheelersindia.com/u...ut_unicorn.asp
http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photo...da-CBR125R.htm

Or maybe just a regular 70 mpg motorcycle

http://www.enfieldmotorcycles.com/models/classic.html

Next in line would be electric plugin cars/motocycles. But they all have the techie skim going at the moment.

[healtoeit]

Current diesel motorcycles can get 100 mpg
The new for 2008 kawasaki ninja 250 gets around 70 i believe....

[dacoyote]

Current diesel motorcycles can get 100 mpg
The new for 2008 kawasaki ninja 250 gets around 70 i believe....

Most of the 250cc bikes get 70mpg....

That being said.. the ninja does 110mph...

The next best is the Yamaha and Kawasaki at about 80mph

(that being said, like any 300 pound bike, 80 on the freeway I heard is "fun")

[healtoeit]

That being said.. the ninja does 110mph...

looks nice too
http://www.kawasaki.com/Products/Detail.aspx?id=263