On being a Gym Rat, the RX3, Yoo-Hoo, and Lucas Fuel Treatment

I’ve been drinking my stash of Yoo-Hoo (the review is in the works), but wouldn’t you know it, each of those little containers is 100 calories.   To a male model like myself, that means more time at the gym, and that’s what I’ve been doing.  Usually I roll over there in the Subie, but today was a bit different.  I rode to the gym on my old RX3.

It sounds funny to refer to the RX3 as old.  Four years ago, it was the hottest thing since sliced bread, and news of an inexpensive, fully-equipped, adventure touring machine was big news indeed.   The RX3 price has gone up since then, but the RX3 is still a hot smoking hot deal.  Mine came in on the very first shipment from Chongqing, it has about 20,000 miles on it, and it’s still going strong.  I don’t ride my RX3 much these days because I’m usually on someone else’s motorcycle for an ExNotes blog (the RX4, the Royal Enfields, the Janus bikes, the Genuine G400c), but every time I get on my bike I still feel the excitement I first felt when I rode an RX3 for the first time.  That was in China.  You can badmouth small bikes and Chinese bikes all you want, but I know better.  The RX3 is one of the world’s great motorcycles.

I’m going to do a trip on my RX3, most likely up the Pacific Coast, in the next couple of months.  I’m thinking something leisurely, around 200 miles each day, with stops at the La Purisima Mission, Jocko’s in Nipomo (best barbeque on the planet), a run up the Pacific Coast Highway to Carmel, and then a jaunt east through Hollister to Pinnacles, Highway 25, and the 198 down the center of California.   I’ll probably swing further east for a Del Taco burrito in Barstow (it’s the location of the original Del Taco, and if I had to explain why that’s significant, you might not get it).  Yeah, that could work.  Lots of photos, lots of meeting new people, and lots of fun.

What would be particularly cool on a trip like that is the RX3’s fuel economy.  We’re up around $4 per gallon here in the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia (about a dollar of that is taxes), and being on a bike that sips fuel always makes me feel like I’m getting away with something.  I consistently get better than 70 mpg on my RX3.  That’s a good thing.  Gresh seems to have stumbled on to something on his B0nneville adventure using Lucas fuel treatment in his Husky.  His fuel economy improved significantly after adding Lucas.  I’ve always used Lucas fuel treatment in my bike, and I’m wondering if that’s part of the reason I’ve always had great fuel economy.

Anyway, lots more coming up, folks.  Stay tuned.

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