West Virgina and Virginia November 4-6, 2016

Stats:
Day 1, 11/4/2016
45 mph
44 mpg
371.2 mi
364.52 mi per GPS

Day 2, 11/5/2016
48 mph
49 mpg
351.3 mi

Day 3, 11/6/2016
50 mph
49 mpg
332.4 mi

Total:
1055.4 mi per BMW
1034.07 mi per GPS

For future planning if using the run from York as the "get the flock home" leg at the end of the day, from York to the 222/422 split in Reading took 51 min, to Old Airport Road took 67 min, to Pine Forge Road took 75 min.

10/23/2016 Diner Breakfast, Ride Around the County

BMW Stats:
40 mph ave
46 mpg ave
148.4 miles
GPS: 145.52 miles

October 16, 2016 - Cheese Steak Omelets at Lyons FC

BMW Data:
43 mph average
51 mpg aveerage
171.8 miles
GPS:  169.27 miles

Cheese steak omelets at Lyons Fire Company
Goldmine Rd/Mollystown Rd twisty loop
Temp in the 50's
High overcast, very even lighting
New Darien fleece liner from Aerostich worked great

August 28, 2016 - The Blue Hills

Breakfast at The Ice House in Pottstown then an 80 mile jaunt around the Blue Hills.  Clean roads, very little traffics, lots of twisties.  Lighting was very contrasty making it hard to spot lines or assess the road surface so we took it easy.  Weather was great but getting hot by mid day when we finished up.  One of the beauties of living here is that we step out the back door into a motorcycle playground.

39 ave mph
49 ave mpg
126.6 miles total
123.9 miles per GPS

July 3, 2016 Breakfast at Maggie's

Bike:
42 mph ave speed
49 mpg
173.8 mi
GPS 171.28 mi

May 19 to 22, 2016 VA, NC, and WV

 Stats:            LK R12    TL R12
5/19/2016          65          70 mph
                          48          49 mpg
                        270.6            miles
5/20/16              48           45 mph
                          49           50 mpg
                        350.3             miles
5/21/16              39           37 mph
                          52           52 mpg
                        309.5             miles
5/22/16              54                mph
                          50                mpg
                        495.4             miles
GPS:  1424.70 Total Miles
LK Data from Day 1 starts at home including the ride to Lowes; TL data starts at Lowes.
Gas mileage record fill-by-fill shows conclusively that the biggest source of error in measuring gas mileage is the consistency of defining "full" at each fill up.  The variation can be as much as +/- 0.2 gal.  Over the course of 1212 miles of this trip, overall gas mileage was 50.19 for LK R1200R and 50.02 for TL R1200R, but LK's last fill was "heavy" by about 0.07 gal which just about exactly accounts for the difference.  Looks like the 2 bikes got essentially identical gas mileage at 50 mpg.  Both bikes reported preferring the NC No Ethanol gas (52 mpg from the on-board computers on 5/21) but LK's poor filling consistency on these fill ups (one very heavy, one very light) makes it impossible to extract more meaningful statistical data from the record.  Guess we'll have to go back and try again!

May 15, 2016 Lawn FC Motorcycle Breakfast

The Lawn Fire Company Motorcycle breakfast is pretty much a carnival of leathers and Harley-Davidsons with the occasional ballistic-suit-attired BMW or Triumph rider.  At $11 a head it's a little higher than most FC breakfasts but we  had to agree that their sausage gravy and biscuits surpassed the Ridgewood, WV Moose Lodge and is now in first place in the great sausage gravy and biscuit quest.

Stats:
41 mph ave
46 mpg ave
171.1 miles (bike)
168.21 miiles (GPS)

Brother Rick from California enjoying the PA twisties. Rick's first ride since June 2010. Look at that smile!

May 7, 2016

Stats from Beemer:
37 mph
47 mpg
128 mi.
GPS sez 125.5 mi.
Just a quick jaunt around the western end of the county dodging raindrops.

April 2016, West Virginia

My stats from the on-board trip computer: 

4/22/16, 47 mph, 49 mpg, 334.3 mi

4/23/16, 44 mph, 50 mpg, 361.8 mi

4/24/16, 51 mph, 51 mpg, 304.1 mi

GPS Trip: 981.08

From the gas and mileage record I get an average of 48.8 mpg.  Here's the interesting thing tho', when I calculate the mileage fillup by fillup, the first two are 44.6 and 45.7 mpg; the remaining 5 average 49.6 mpg with a std dev of 2.13.  Yup, I did the t-test.  Even with so few data, the t-statistic is striking: -4.1 with a t-crit of 2.57 for 95% probability.  What does that mean?  There is a better than 99% probability that the data from the first 2 and last 5 are from two statistically distinct populations.  The first 2 are miles ridden using fillups in PA:  the previous Wawa fillup and the Sheetz fillup in Carlisle; the remaining 5 are from fillups south of the M-D line.  Guess there's no question about ethanol in fuel in PA, huh?