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 2008-10-27 7:46 PM in reply to: #1769141 |
Expert  1183    Fort Wayne, IN |  Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon1 gallon of gas = 32.55 kilowatt hours = 27991.9 kilocalories = 117.1964 Mjoules = 7.31476e+026 electron volts Take your pick Cars don't run well on gu, but I calculated 311 gu's at 90 calories a pop. Assuming $1.00 per gu, it's kind of expensive. Edited by nickster 2008-10-27 7:49 PM |
| 2008-10-27 9:25 PM in reply to: #1768690 |
Extreme Veteran 438 Surprise, AZ | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon $216 per gallon of gu! 5 gu's = 4 fluid ounces 128 / 4 = 32 32 x 5 = 160 gu's 160 gu's x $1.25 $200 x .08 (tax) = $216 per gallon! Did I say I was bored, 1st day of offseason what can I say |
| 2008-10-27 10:08 PM in reply to: #1769445 |
Master 1741 Chapel Hill, NC | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon Focker - 2008-10-27 10:25 PM $216 per gallon of gu! 5 gu's = 4 fluid ounces 128 / 4 = 32 32 x 5 = 160 gu's 160 gu's x $1.25 $200 x .08 (tax) = $216 per gallon! Did I say I was bored, 1st day of offseason what can I say 160 Gu's x 100 calories each = 16,000 calories. If you ate that much Gu without burning it off, you'd gain 4.57 lbs of fat (3500 calories per lb of fat). |
| 2008-10-27 11:29 PM in reply to: #1768973 |
| Houston | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon keyone - 2008-10-27 6:29 PM environmental wakko - 2008-10-27 7:00 PM Yeah, and you really should factor in improvements to your health/reduction in future health care costs associated with biking and/or running vs driving...
Holy crap! You can get Gu for $1 per? I wait for it to go on sale at my local Performance bike shop, and get the 24 packs for $24. What I really want to know is how you get nuun so cheap.... $2.50 for a whole tube? Even with my discount at my job they're like $5 a tube! Or is that to nuun your gallon of water? |
| 2008-10-28 4:56 AM in reply to: #1768690 |
Member 297 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon If you really want to get technical, now figure out how much CO2 you add to the air per minute when training or racing. Matt Cazalas
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| 2008-10-28 5:58 AM in reply to: #1769801 |
New user 25 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon sbrstlouis - 2008-10-28 5:56 AM If you really want to get technical, now figure out how much CO2 you add to the air per minute when training or racing.
Negligible compared to driving |
| 2008-10-28 7:54 AM in reply to: #1769696 |
Master 1741 Chapel Hill, NC | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon pengy - 2008-10-28 12:29 AM keyone - 2008-10-27 6:29 PM environmental wakko - 2008-10-27 7:00 PM Yeah, and you really should factor in improvements to your health/reduction in future health care costs associated with biking and/or running vs driving...
Holy crap! You can get Gu for $1 per? I wait for it to go on sale at my local Performance bike shop, and get the 24 packs for $24. What I really want to know is how you get nuun so cheap.... $2.50 for a whole tube? Even with my discount at my job they're like $5 a tube! Or is that to nuun your gallon of water? Nice to see you on the forums again, Fry. I use 1/2 tablet per 20 ounce fillup. I figured they are 50 cents per tablet and I used 5 tablets (well, 10 half tabs). I buy them online for $6 a tube. |
| 2008-10-28 11:31 AM in reply to: #1769933 |
| Houston | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon keyone - 2008-10-28 7:54 AM pengy - 2008-10-28 12:29 AM keyone - 2008-10-27 6:29 PM environmental wakko - 2008-10-27 7:00 PM Yeah, and you really should factor in improvements to your health/reduction in future health care costs associated with biking and/or running vs driving...
Holy crap! You can get Gu for $1 per? I wait for it to go on sale at my local Performance bike shop, and get the 24 packs for $24. What I really want to know is how you get nuun so cheap.... $2.50 for a whole tube? Even with my discount at my job they're like $5 a tube! Or is that to nuun your gallon of water? Nice to see you on the forums again, Fry. I use 1/2 tablet per 20 ounce fillup. I figured they are 50 cents per tablet and I used 5 tablets (well, 10 half tabs). I buy them online for $6 a tube. I'm always around, just not as much when things get busy! |
| 2008-10-28 11:50 AM in reply to: #1768931 |
Master 2021 Alpharetta, GA | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon nickster - 2008-10-27 7:01 PM What about my knee replacement surgery costs from training too much? Better yet, cartilage replacement surgery, assuming it becomes available in time. Would that be the same application as "repairs/up keep" for a car (e.g. oil changes, replacement parts, etc…)? I think that can be factored in. |
| 2008-10-28 4:29 PM in reply to: #1769178 |
Member 381 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon nickster - 2008-10-27 6:46 PM 1 gallon of gas = 32.55 kilowatt hours = 27991.9 kilocalories = 117.1964 Mjoules = 7.31476e+026 electron volts Take your pick Cars don't run well on gu, but I calculated 311 gu's at 90 calories a pop. Assuming $1.00 per gu, it's kind of expensive. As far as cost per ride, I have an advantage in the form of a big kcal battery around my waist and a$$. I just recharge it on the weekends eating pizza and drinking beer (which I was going to do anyhow) |
| 2008-10-28 4:31 PM in reply to: #1770675 |
Member 381 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon Coldfire - 2008-10-28 10:50 AM nickster - 2008-10-27 7:01 PM What about my knee replacement surgery costs from training too much? Better yet, cartilage replacement surgery, assuming it becomes available in time. Would that be the same application as "repairs/up keep" for a car (e.g. oil changes, replacement parts, etc…)? I think that can be factored in. my understanding is that $0.35 per mile is average for fuel and wear and tear. Well, maybe higher depending on fuel costs. |
| 2008-10-28 9:51 PM in reply to: #1768690 |
Master 1848 Canandaigua | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon Last bike article I read put gas milage at about 3000 miles, yep 3 big ones, three thousand that is. I never like the taste of gas when I siphon it out of the neighbor's car. |
| 2008-10-28 9:58 PM in reply to: #1768690 |
Expert 608 St. Louis | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon I have no idea what you guys are talking about. All i use is water, maybe some shocks blocks and some more water. Its like $2.50 to ride 75 miles if your hydrated and have good nutrition. |
| 2008-10-28 10:14 PM in reply to: #1768973 |
Champion 6503 NOVA - Ironic for an Endurance Athlete | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon keyone - 2008-10-27 6:29 PM environmental wakko - 2008-10-27 7:00 PM I wait for it to go on sale at my local Performance bike shop, and get the 24 packs for $24.Yeah, and you really should factor in improvements to your health/reduction in future health care costs associated with biking and/or running vs driving...
Holy crap! You can get Gu for $1 per? You all need to start buying your gu in the big ol' quart bottles like me! $18.95 for a quart (59.2 cents per fluid ounce). As an aside, for all of you [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume |
| 2008-10-29 7:04 AM in reply to: #1772218 |
| New user 54 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon pga_mike - 2008-10-29 5:14 AM You all need to start buying your gu in the big ol' quart bottles like me! $18.95 for a quart (59.2 cents per fluid ounce). As an aside, for <the rest of the world> [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume . |
| 2008-10-29 12:39 PM in reply to: #1772218 |
Extreme Veteran 406 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon As an aside, for all of you [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume
But one cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram and is equal to one milliliter. So there. With all this metric bull*oney, why hasn't anyone come up with metric time? I mean, what makes sense about 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds to a minute? Why not make 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 hours per day. While you're at it, what about a nice even 100 days per year? Then you'd have to re-divide the earth into 100 time zones instead of the current 24, and retool all clock and watch makers worldwide. Think of the jobs it'd create! [/sarcasm] Edited by baldmanrunning 2008-10-29 12:40 PM |
| 2008-10-29 3:18 PM in reply to: #1772218 |
Member 381 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon pga_mike - 2008-10-28 9:14 PM As an aside, for all of you [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume errrr... (1) the fact that ounce is used as a measure (unit) of weight and volume is in and of itself ripe for terrifying mistakes (2) you apparently made one. an ounce (of volume) is equal to 1.8-ish cubic inches. (3) worse yet, the volume of one ounce of water was originally defined to be the amount of water in one ounce by weight of water (standerd temperature, pressure), but in the US it is defined as 1/128 of a US gallon, so a fluid ounce of water weighs about 1.043 ounces so from that perspective I would say that the metric system is not smarter. it is simpler for a dummy like me to use without mistakes. |
| 2008-10-29 5:03 PM in reply to: #1768690 |
Expert 784 Computerland | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon How many pounds (or kilograms...) would you gain if you drank a gallon of gas? |
| 2008-10-29 5:13 PM in reply to: #1774343 |
Member 381 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon amyro1234 - 2008-10-29 4:03 PM How many pounds (or kilograms...) would you gain if you drank a gallon of gas? you would temporarily gain 6 pounds (the weight of a gallon of gas). I suspect you would lose all of that shortly after from vomiting and then maybe more over the next few days in a hospital. if your body could digest gasoline then in theory there is enough energy to gain 8 pounds of fat. based on a simple mass balance I guess that would require 2 more pounds of something else (probably water) to happen. and a stomach made of iron. |
| 2008-10-29 8:03 PM in reply to: #1768690 |
Expert 708 work, road, bike, pool | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon I bought 20 gallons of gas for $1.98 per gal today.... FOR REAL.... another thing to think about is cost of bike/tubes/tires/extras..... This is a great thread... My costs per mile of bike for the 1500 that i have put on it is .67 and My costs per mile for my car for the 25,000 that I have put on it is .41 Im sure that the costs go way down the more miles that you bike and drive Edited by tri-dg 2008-10-29 8:03 PM |
| 2008-10-29 8:18 PM in reply to: #1773964 |
Champion 6503 NOVA - Ironic for an Endurance Athlete | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon djluscher - 2008-10-29 3:18 PM pga_mike - 2008-10-28 9:14 PM As an aside, for all of you [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ errrr... (1) the fact that ounce is used as a measure (unit) of weight and volume is in and of itself ripe for terrifying mistakes (2) you apparently made one. an ounce (of volume) is equal to 1.8-ish cubic inches. (3) worse yet, the volume of one ounce of water was originally defined to be the amount of water in one ounce by weight of water (standerd temperature, pressure), but in the US it is defined as 1/128 of a US gallon, so a fluid ounce of water weighs about 1.043 ounces so from that perspective I would say that the metric system is not smarter. it is simpler for a dummy like me to use without mistakes.
an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume Dude, this is America! 1=1.043 and furthermore, 1 cubic inch is pretty damn close to 1.8 cubic inches. Geez, I don't let facts get in the way of my opinion!!! Edited by pga_mike 2008-10-29 8:22 PM |
| 2008-10-30 10:24 AM in reply to: #1774638 |
Member 381 | Subject: RE: 240 miles per gallon pga_mike - 2008-10-29 7:18 PM djluscher - 2008-10-29 3:18 PM pga_mike - 2008-10-28 9:14 PM As an aside, for all of you [snide]"metric system is smarter people" [/snide]............ errrr... (1) the fact that ounce is used as a measure (unit) of weight and volume is in and of itself ripe for terrifying mistakes (2) you apparently made one. an ounce (of volume) is equal to 1.8-ish cubic inches. (3) worse yet, the volume of one ounce of water was originally defined to be the amount of water in one ounce by weight of water (standerd temperature, pressure), but in the US it is defined as 1/128 of a US gallon, so a fluid ounce of water weighs about 1.043 ounces so from that perspective I would say that the metric system is not smarter. it is simpler for a dummy like me to use without mistakes.
an ounce of water weighs and ounce and is 1 cubic inch in volume Dude, this is America! 1=1.043 and furthermore, 1 cubic inch is pretty damn close to 1.8 cubic inches. Geez, I don't let facts get in the way of my opinion!!! my bad. point noted. just don't let my employer know that 1=1.043 or I anticipate a 4.3% decrease in pay! |
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