Driving with your windshield down?

[MoaKane]

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[Ole Cowboy]

I am going to address it: I have spent a LOT of miles with the windshield down, I don't like it but it's an Army thing, guess it still is???

I can tell you this you can get some incredible mpg. Few years back I was doing some work on my Jeep and had the top stripped off and the windshield down got a call and some custom parts I had ordered were in, but the company was on I35 N almost to Ok and I am in Ft Worth. They are open till 6 but closed the following week for Labor Day holiday. If I want my parts for my Jeep I better get up there now. So I tell them I am leaving as we speak and please wait I am cutting it close.

I fill up at the corner WeBeGas at I 35, and head N, get there about 6:10, get my parts, and turn S, to Ft Worth and home. As I get close I note my gas gauge does not seem to have moved. Well, this cannot be right, so I pull into the station where I filled up when I left and like when I had filled up topped the tank, meaning gas to the lip of the fill spout. I run the numbers/gals/miles ( I had zero'd out at the gas station.

26.2 mpg Rubicon, stock tires, std trans. Windshield down, roll bar removed.

 

[ACAD_Cowboy]

The glass on my cj was down more than up. I loved it, like my motorcycles but requiring far less of me.

I’ve never dropped that glass on my JK because A. The process is a process and B. With the whole cage ensemble it would feel silly, my cj had the old style (for cj) behind the seat single hoop, friends cj5 had no bar is felt like a go kart.

The out in the elements being one with the nature you’re rolling through feeling is like diving but with a cup of coffee.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

Yea I am with you on that bike, I did not have a windshield...BUT one time I wish I did. I was riding thru E Tex running about 70 back in the helmet law days and a Wasp hit me and got wedged between my helmet strap and my neck, that SOB was stingin me repeatedly and I am trying to slap that little sob dead before I wreck my Harley.

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