I'm not a regular Ohio rider, but I will be on Saturday June 8, starting at or about 7 am at Splash Harbor in Bellville (near Mansfield and Lexington).
This is a Vetter Fuel Economy Challenge. It is free to all riders of powered two and three wheelers, but you need to have a bike or scooter or trike that can maintain at least 75 mph or so in order not to be disqualified. I'm trying to promote and challenge other stock-bike owners and riders to come and ride, especially those who think they can do really well in a real-world-as-possible ride with respect to fuel economy on their bikes. I'd like to see how well some model and make bikes can do when we really try with respect to mpg and to have some others there besides the heavily-modified electric and streamlined gas and diesel bikes.
I've got a 2014 Honda CTX700 with a 670 cc, parallel twin, torquey, automotive-type engine that hits the rev limit at only 6500 RPM, which means, basically, that it drives more car like than motorcycle like, but makes for a really smooth and torquey ride, and is well-fitted to a cruiser-style motorcycle. It also means that it can get phenomenal fuel economy for a 700 class bike with at least 43 hp and 42 foot lb torque at the wheel. I went to this event back in 2014 and did amazingly well. I beat all other stock bikes by 21 mpg or more. I came within 1.5 mpg of beating a fully streamlined Honda Helix, and much better than any stock bike has done save one, in the whole history of the event, and it was on a bone-stock motorcycle that weighs almost 500 pounds. But in 2014, I didn't have much competition from stock bike riders. There were only around 4 of us there that were riding stock bikes that were seriously trying to achieve good fuel economy.
I know there are other stock bikes out there that can challenge me. The BMW GS650 and other 650 single and 800 twin BMW variants are supposed to be really frugal. So too is the Suzuki Burgman scooters, and the Honda 250/300 singles and 500 and 700 newer parallel twins. I'm sure there are others.
Please come out and ride and/or help me promote to others who may be interested to come out and ride with me and beat me on my CTX700!
Here is the info www.schultzengineering.us