I’ve taken three trips since Tuesday that total about 1,400 miles. On each of these trips I’ve experimented with different riding styles to see what happens to my MPG. I usually average about 40 mpg with the Memphis Fats, the extended lowers and my pudgy self. I tried 80-85 MPH on the slab, 37-38 MPG over about 130 miles. I tried 55-60 MPH on back country blacktops with few stops and almost no traffic, 45-46 over 140+ miles. I tried tucking right up on the back of a semi running 75 MPH for over 120 miles, 52 MPG! (This was in the rain too) Mostly I took the back roads and enjoyed the scenery but I forced myself to stick to my experiments just to see what would happen. “But officer, this is a scientific experiment!”

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.