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| My personal future: Designing High Mileage Touring Fairings | |||||||||||||||||||
| OK. You can get over 400 mpg if you make yourself real small, get really streamlined, use 3.3 horsepower and ride very, very carefully. What about something a little less extreme? Can I get 100 miles per gallon and be happy? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| The goal: 100 mpg | Where we are: 28 mpg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sitting up bores a big hole through the air and it creates a lot of drag. This rider is like being a parachute hanging onto the handlebars. He might think he is cool, but his showmanship is burning up his gas. If he was streamlined, he could go much faster with a much smaller engine. Why doesn't he do that? It wouldn't be cool. How sad. | |||||||||||||||||||
 | When I began designing for motorcycles, we got 43 mpg. I was proud. Today, our lust for power has brought motorcycle mileage down below many automobiles. I am no longer proud. Today I return to my roots of developing products that help us get better mileage | ||||||||||||||||||
| "Design is compromise. You want this? You gotta give up that." From my upcoming book | |||||||||||||||||||
| See how they got 470 mpg at the Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Contests 1980-85 | |||||||||||||||||||
| This page upgraded Mar 10, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||
