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FOUR-DOLLAR FUN; HIGH GAS PRICES LEAD TO CREATIVITY IN VEHICLE CHOICE.(NEWS)

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OK, if you insist on panicking at the onset of $4-a-gallon gas, we will join right in. Go ahead, get off the grid, grow your own organic broccoli and wear hemp boxer shorts. But don't give up having fun on the highway! We'll show you how to double your mileage so you can drive around all day like it was 2004 and gas was only $2-something a gallon.

How? Two words: motor cycles. Or is it one word? Remember them? If you can have more fun on pavement than a two-wheeler perfectly matched to your size, shape and ability, well, you probably own a Porsche or something and we salute you. But you can get on a world-class bike for less than $10,000, and an even better bike for $12,000. If you have ...

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