{"id":10883,"date":"2026-04-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=10883"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:54:18","slug":"60-miles-just-to-get-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/60-miles-just-to-get-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"60 miles just to get gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gas at 65,494 \u2013 3.143 gal E0 89 @ $3.799\/g = $11.94. 109.4 miles\/3.143 g = 34.8 mpg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End at 65,524 (57 miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems weird to ride almost 60 miles just to get gas, but I also stopped to get the side case key George found duplicated. Two keys cost me about $11. Must have gotten the new guy first\u2014he farted around with it for a half-hour, then the guy who\u2019s been there since we moved here in 2016 stepped in. I was done in about ten minutes after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got lunch at Jimmy John\u2019s, then gas at the Wawa in Goochland County right on the edge of Henrico County. 30.1 miles straight home, changed my pants and here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I only saw two other motorcycles all morning. I think that\u2019s strange for such a beautiful day, but then again it\u2019s the middle of a work day and it is kind of chilly. Expecting rain the rest of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10880 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10880 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/wes_r90_e0tank.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems weird to ride almost 60 miles just to get gas, but I also stopped to get the side case key George found duplicated. Two keys cost me about $11. Must have gotten the new guy first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10884,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions\/10884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}