I must ride my machines abit harder than rickster. The 08 has got about 42 mpg every fill-up so far but that's only about four anyway to date. The 06 RK Custom got 40 pretty consistently but it had a Doherty power pacc intake, Sampson slip-ons and a Power Commander IIIusb. The SE Ultra only gets 37 on the average day, 39 on a great day. The SE also has the Doherty power Pacc, a D&D 2 into 1 exhaust and the SE race tuner. Now, the Gold wing can run all day at 75-80 and still get 42 mpg. And I have no garage queens except maybe my Hyundai Tucson with only 6800 miles in the past 2 years. The RK Custom I just traded on the 08 RK Standard picked up a respectable 6000 miles in the 13 months I had it. I would not likely have traded it but the factory lowered suspension on the custom model just literally beat me up on the rough roads we have in MT and I was given a pretty good deal offer at the dealer to trade. The GW has over 5000 miles since purchase late last September (5000 in a year is well above average for Montana). And when you consider the miles on those bikes are in addition to the 26,800+ put on the Ultra in The past 2 years as of this week, I wouldn't consider any of them garage queens. I'd ride more but I work 40 hours a week and have only had 5 weeks vacation total in the past 3 years. I'll work on getting some more ride time in.
Oh yeah the gearing in the 08 is higher, similar to an overdrive. You really can't use 6th unless you are doing about 60 or so. I think HD says 55 on level terrain.
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