CVT Gas mileage question for people with Nuvinci hubs

Nuvinci

I have a staton kit that has about 6-7K on it with a RS eh035 and I regularly get 200+MPG with it on long rides. This includes very large hills that it gears down on and climbs with ease. Top speed is crazy fast as well, and cruising my rpm's always stay the same when I have my throttle lock on I just shift up and down on the hills. My bike is a Specialized Big Hit (rather heavy downhill racing dual suspension mountain bike).
 
Simply for fun factor im very little concerned with gas mileage when you have the ability to sound like an actual sport bike. I have yet to do a mileage test since i upgraded the exhaust on my gp460 from a happy time pipe to the daves motors dominator pipe but i pulled up to about 50mph today. Its hard to just cruise with that motor though because the power spike is so aggresive but without the nuvinci hub it wouldnt be anywhere near as fun to ride... there is no better piece of gear for aggressive or hilly motored biking than the nuvinci, imo.
 
I have a staton kit that has about 6-7K on it with a RS eh035 and I regularly get 200+MPG with it on long rides. This includes very large hills that it gears down on and climbs with ease. Top speed is crazy fast as well, and cruising my rpm's always stay the same when I have my throttle lock on I just shift up and down on the hills. My bike is a Specialized Big Hit (rather heavy downhill racing dual suspension mountain bike).

Sniper, using the eho35 with the NuVinci, do you feel that you have enough power to pull a bike trailer with 60-80 lbs of gear up mountain roads? Thanks!
 
Yes it would do that quite easily, but you wouldnt be able to go faster than a walking pace. Mine is geared so that the slowest speed that I can go is about 5 mph without smoking my clutch. Staton-inc used a nuvinci hub bike to pull a pickup truck across their parking lot with the prototype bike when they first started building them. Its all in the gearing mine has the staton gearbox and a 20T sprocket on the gearbox with a 27T on the hub, I run a 24 inch rear tire.
 
Ok, Thank you. Geeez.. No wonder the guy gets 200 mpg with a Nuvinci ! It has a piston the size of a thumb tac.lol
 
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