BDRAG
HAhahaaaa.
Well I must say, I have NEVER had a gas powered Ford F150 pull a trailer with my bikes on it so easily! I mean the truck hardly noticed it while passing a string of cars on hills up and down. I looked down on one pass and was at 100 and I almost shit my pants, OH GOD, MY TRAILER TIRES ARE GONNA POP! HAhahaaaaaaaaa.
I stuffed my Buell XB12X in the bed along with a full ice chest and ramps and fishing gear and a spare bike tire. The trailer is a single axle 5 x 13 landscape trailer that I dolled up into my 2 bike trailer. The trailer was loaded with another Buell XB12S and a Honda ST 1300 along with 2 big storage boxes full of shit, like 100 lbs of shit in each one. We travel lite on bike trips that we tow to! AHahaaaaaaaa. About 3000-3200 lbs in the truck and on the trailer not including my slim 300 plus lbs and Jeff's 280 lb self.
I got a whopping 10.4 mpg going and got 9.8 comming back. Most of the driving there was 70-75 on the interstate. Comiong back was 3 hours of 2 lanes with MANY passes at will. This kilt off the milagae a bit. Still, all in all the Raptor just snatched and went.
The shift button on the stick was wonderfull. I would just drop out 6th, 5th or even 4th at times using this to gear down for hills and passing. If I let the truck do the shifting it seemed about 1 second behind when I would have down shifted. It was just a great drive. Best ever. Did about 950 miles and used about 98 gallons of gas! SHIT!
Good thing I had a doller off a gollon waitin on me when I got back. I had to drop a $20 and later another $10 in the tank to get home for maximum effect of the cheap fill up. Put in 34.5 at fillup. filled up for $78.00 instead of $112.00. Saved $ 34.50! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. HAhahaaaa.
To sum it up. The milages sucked but the experiance was a pleasure. Oh the Arkansas roads are a motorcyclists best friend if ya like corners at speed and little traffic and little LEO action.
BDRAG
I stuffed my Buell XB12X in the bed along with a full ice chest and ramps and fishing gear and a spare bike tire. The trailer is a single axle 5 x 13 landscape trailer that I dolled up into my 2 bike trailer. The trailer was loaded with another Buell XB12S and a Honda ST 1300 along with 2 big storage boxes full of shit, like 100 lbs of shit in each one. We travel lite on bike trips that we tow to! AHahaaaaaaaa. About 3000-3200 lbs in the truck and on the trailer not including my slim 300 plus lbs and Jeff's 280 lb self.
I got a whopping 10.4 mpg going and got 9.8 comming back. Most of the driving there was 70-75 on the interstate. Comiong back was 3 hours of 2 lanes with MANY passes at will. This kilt off the milagae a bit. Still, all in all the Raptor just snatched and went.
The shift button on the stick was wonderfull. I would just drop out 6th, 5th or even 4th at times using this to gear down for hills and passing. If I let the truck do the shifting it seemed about 1 second behind when I would have down shifted. It was just a great drive. Best ever. Did about 950 miles and used about 98 gallons of gas! SHIT!
Good thing I had a doller off a gollon waitin on me when I got back. I had to drop a $20 and later another $10 in the tank to get home for maximum effect of the cheap fill up. Put in 34.5 at fillup. filled up for $78.00 instead of $112.00. Saved $ 34.50! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. HAhahaaaa.
To sum it up. The milages sucked but the experiance was a pleasure. Oh the Arkansas roads are a motorcyclists best friend if ya like corners at speed and little traffic and little LEO action.
BDRAG
