<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P><SPAN>I can appreciate the bicycle idea as I was a bike commuter for 15 years. The problem is that I need to spend as much time providing free help to my clients as possible and be on the road a little as possible. That is why I selected the 250cc (with speeds to 70mph apparently) </SPAN></P>
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<P><BR><BR>Dave Bennink<BR>RE-USE Consulting<BR>dave@decon.us<BR>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Re-Use-Consulting/168260119870367<BR>360-201-6977<BR><BR></SPAN><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "RT" <ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca><BR>To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org><BR>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 6:58:22 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] 2000 miles on a scooter to get to the green building conference<BR><BR>On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:23:48 -0400, Reuben Deumling <9watts@gmail.com> <BR>wrote:<BR><BR>> Even scooters aren't what they used to be. I thought 50cc was the scooter<BR>> class. What is your anticipated fuel consumption for the trip?<BR>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM, RE-USE Consulting <BR>> <go2nacho@comcast.net>wrote:<BR>><BR>>> ... 2000 miles... on a 250cc scooter!<BR><BR>Back when I was a 15 yr-old keed, I had a 250cc Yamaha (yes, I drove it <BR>without a license) and it was definitely in the motorCYCLE class.<BR><BR>It'd let out a loud wah-o-o-oOOOWWWRRR! as it screamed up to speeds<BR>that were fast enough to make even invulnerable-minded teenaged boys hang <BR>on for dear life.<BR><BR>My older brothers had a Harley-Davidson "Topper" and a Piatti scooters <BR>before they moved "up" to motorcycles (BSA "Lightning" and a Kawasaki <BR>something-or-other) and even though they were well over 50cc (Topper @ 165 <BR>cc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_Topper and the Piatti @ <BR>125cc http://www.piattiscooter.com/history.htm ) they were more like a <BR>modern-day electric-assist bicycle than they were the 250cc Yamaha.<BR><BR>... point being that going by engine size might not tell one much.<BR><BR>My guess is that a 165 cc 1960's era scooter compared to a 165cc 2011 <BR>motorbike, would be like the difference between a 1960's era 250 cu inch <BR>6-cylinder Chevy and a 2011-era 4 litre V-8 BMW ... so a 2011 250 cc <BR>probably wouldn't be a "scooter" ?<BR><BR>But I can definitely say that 2000 miles should be do-able in about 11-12 <BR>days on a bicycle.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>=== * ===<BR>Rob Tom<BR>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<BR>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a ><BR>manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply"<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Greenbuilding mailing list<BR>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<BR>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<BR><BR>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<BR>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org<BR></P></div></body></html>