Loren Busch wrote:

> ...An acquaintance of mine that used to drive a cherry '90 Westy, 4
> speed, and
> never got above 55, consistently got 21 to 23 mpg.  And she put a lot of
> miles on her rig before selling it and going to something bigger.

Indeed, I suspect one reason my 84 got so many trouble-free miles out of
the original engine (220K) was because the speedo was so far off
(indicated 72 = actual 55) that we always thought we were going much
faster than we were.  I knew it was off but didn't fully appreciate by
how much.

Geo

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