MPG my ass! Or legs. About 560 MPG the other day!

**Ryon Graf** · 04-20-2008, 06:07 PM

With all this talk about MPG, combined with my qualified nerd status and interest in cycling, led me to do some calculations...

The other day I rode my bike on a route from UC Irvine to check out west st and aliso (skim sucked..). The route was 32.25 miles and I expended just over 2,000 calories (Kcal) to do it.

A gallon of gas has the equivalent of 34,800 Kcal of energy. If I were to be able to give the equivalent in gallons, me and my bike get about 560 miles per gallon! Eat your heart out, "eco-friendly" high-nosed prius touting sons of bitches!

The night before, I ate a plate of pasta, using 1/2 of a packet I bought for $2. It was about 10oz of pasta (dry weight), and since this pasta is about 210 kcal per 2oz, I consumed a little more than the estimated amount I expended the next day. Cost: $1.

With the current cost of gasoline (avg around here at $3.80/gallon) to get the same falue for fuel, you would have to have a car that got fuel equivalency of 123 MPG.

So, 123 MPG, or 560 MPG. Either way my bike kicks ass. Oh, and I spent less to buy the bike than most of you spend on car insurance. Bitches.

-Ryon

**jesse** · 04-20-2008, 06:09 PM

hahaha awesome

**LAXitives288** · 04-20-2008, 06:29 PM

I just gained a lot of respect for you, mainly because you told smug eco nerds to blow it out their ass.

**J. Saunders** · 04-20-2008, 06:31 PM

bad assss

**DrD** · 04-20-2008, 06:31 PM

Haha, now lets see you take a trip to Cabo on that bike!

**Robert Huffman** · 04-20-2008, 06:37 PM

damn ryon, i got some respect for ya son!

**RexSkimmer** · 04-20-2008, 06:42 PM

yeah but that doesnt beat these vehicles

some get over 10,000 mpg

**Cam Oden** · 04-20-2008, 06:51 PM

and thats how you use math in the real world!

**ZapBulletRider** · 04-20-2008, 08:39 PM

good luck in the rain. Oh wait, I've got windshield wipers.

**Dono** · 04-20-2008, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by Cam Oden

and thats how you use math in the real world!

+1

thats just bad ass lol

**MarKilla** · 04-20-2008, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

The night before, I ate a plate of pasta

When I first read that, I seriously thought it said you ate a plate of plasma. I had to do a double-take. I wouldn't be surprised with you, Ryon.

**vicskim76** · 04-20-2008, 09:17 PM

how is the bike ride to balboa and/or laguna from UCI?

**Ryon Graf** · 04-20-2008, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by ZapBulletRider

good luck in the rain. Oh wait, I've got windshield wipers.

I live in southern california. It rains maybe 15 days a year.

I've got an umbrella. And tennis shoes.

**Ryon Graf** · 04-20-2008, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by vicskim76

how is the bike ride to balboa and/or laguna from UCI?

It's a great workout. But bringing a skimboard with you would be nearly impossible.

**MarKilla** · 04-20-2008, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

I live in southern california. It rains maybe 15 days a year.

I've got an umbrella. And tennis shoes.

zing!

**vicskim76** · 04-20-2008, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

It's a great workout. But bringing a skimboard with you would be nearly impossible.

oh, that sucks. i just assumed you brought one.

**TRKYSUB** · 04-20-2008, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

It's a great workout. But bringing a skimboard with you would be nearly impossible.

no way

**DjMattyD** · 04-20-2008, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by TRKYSUB

no way

haha was gunna look for a pic like that too

+1

**ballin** · 04-20-2008, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by DrD

Haha, now lets see you take a trip to Cabo on that bike!

thats easy its all downhill

**MarKilla** · 04-21-2008, 12:36 AM

exactly. Everybody knows that whenever you're going south, it's always downhill

**Dzan** · 04-21-2008, 03:29 AM

I think you are a little high on your calories. A relatively leisurely ride burns like 300-400 calories an hour depending on your height/weight.

**ZapBulletRider** · 04-21-2008, 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

I live in southern california. It rains maybe 15 days a year.

seriously? that's crazy. I mean I knew it was less than here but damn

**Ryon Graf** · 04-21-2008, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by Dzan

I think you are a little high on your calories. A relatively leisurely ride burns like 300-400 calories an hour depending on your height/weight.

It wasn't a leisurely ride. I was on a road bike and I covered 32 miles in 2 hours. That includes several tough hills, including a 700 foot climb (~1.5 horizontal miles, 7% grade) over a coastal foothill.

**Ryon Graf** · 04-21-2008, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by TRKYSUB

no way

they dont make those fixtures for road bikes. And taking a large flat object with you down PCH with cars whizzing by 5-10 feet from you would be pretty dangerous. It would kind of act like a sail.

**$ilky $kim** · 04-21-2008, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by ZapBulletRider

seriously? that's crazy. I mean I knew it was less than here but damn

Damn ZBR for a guy as smart as you I figured you'd know about the rainfall in the desert. You just got one upped intellectually by Tony Toni Tone.

**Luff** · 04-21-2008, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Dono

+1

Umm...I don't know if anyone's broken the news to you, but yea, you can't +1 anyone.

**DrD** · 04-21-2008, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Let Fire Fall

Umm...I don't know if anyone's broken the news to you, but yea, you can't +1 anyone.

He can +1 his post count

**ZapBulletRider** · 04-21-2008, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by $ilky $kim

Damn ZBR for a guy as smart as you I figured you'd know about the rainfall in the desert. You just got one upped intellectually by Tony Toni Tone.

yeah but I've never been out west (except once to CO), so it may as well be another country for me. Besides he's on the coast I thought, I didn't think that was exactly desert.

**CaboWabo** · 04-21-2008, 01:31 PM

Since this bike thread is better than the last...can I just say that it's pissing me off when I'm riding right up on the curb and passing traffic and the cars in front of me feel the need to go from the center line to riding the curb just to make me slow down.

It's getting really annoying...like it's my fault that being on 2 wheels in Key West is WAY faster than being in a car.

The thing that really gets on my nerves is when their doing like 5mph and I'm cruising at 25ish and I nearly hit them...why do people feel the need to be such dickheads?

Oh well...at least I'm getting 500mpg w/ my legs.

EDIT: Also hate it when I'm drafting a SUV or minivan and as soon as I pull right up on them to initiate "the slingshot" I see their eyes go straight to the rear view mirror and they slow down.

**Dzan** · 04-21-2008, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

It wasn't a leisurely ride. I was on a road bike and I covered 32 miles in 2 hours. That includes several tough hills, including a 700 foot climb (~1.5 horizontal miles, 7% grade) over a coastal foothill.

I'd still say you are probably closer to 800 calories in two hours than you are to 2000, even at a 17mph pace.

That only makes the bike that much more efficient.

**ZapBulletRider** · 04-21-2008, 02:54 PM

every time I see this thread title I think about Ryon's ass and legs, and that's not right.

**Ryon Graf** · 04-21-2008, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by ZapBulletRider

every time I see this thread title I think about Ryon's ass and legs, and that's not right.

It would be right if you lived out in Laguna.

**TRKYSUB** · 04-21-2008, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Ryon Graf

they dont make those fixtures for road bikes. And taking a large flat object with you down PCH with cars whizzing by 5-10 feet from you would be pretty dangerous. It would kind of act like a sail.

ahah, yeah i know. I was just kidding around. .... But they do have side racks.....

**$ilky $kim** · 04-21-2008, 08:49 PM

This thread is bullshit, chug a gallon of regular unleaded then bike 560 miles and I'll be impressed.

But seriously I need to get my bike game on, driving around the oceanfront in the summer is a fool's game.