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Old 15th March 2008, 00:18   #29 (permalink)
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wahey - another chance for me to use my photo

this was acheived over the course of 130 ish rather stressful miles, driving at around 55-60 mph.

Yes, tailing lorries where I could
yes, letting gravity speed me down the hills, and slow me down going up them
NO braking at all if I could possibly avoid it
Hardly any throttle
Certainly in 6th all the way (except on long up hill bits when it started to labour a bit)

And no cruise used
no idea if it would have been better or worse with cruise on - but I suspect worse, as it would have tried to maintain 60mph up the hills, whereas I was content to slow down to 50mph if that meant not pushing the gas pedal any further down
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