Fuel mileage?

**Pwalo** · 15th February 2008, 06:49

21 km/l commuting on the SV. I reckon I could improve that a fair bit on a longer run.

Even taking into servicing and depreciation into account it's cheaper than public transport - but only because my tyres last forever.

**90s** · 15th February 2008, 10:37

Search and similiar threads have been posted before.

Over the last year on the GSX-F I get 18.8ks/L which is 51.8mph in the old money, mainly commuting, plus trips & pillion. Run 95 as 98 was worse fuel economy when U tried it a while.

RG used to return over 20Ks/l.

**MGST** · 15th February 2008, 10:47

Originally Posted by Grub

2000 Honda CBR600F4. After 12,090kms that I have ridden it,
- 5.48 l/100k,
- 18.30 km/l or for the oldies,
- 51.7mpg

I'm not old ( am I? I'm 30, but real close to 31 ) but I dunno what km/L is = cos I have only ever known proper numbers like inches, feet, miles, and MPG!!

So my bike does 65mpg. Maybe some brainiack can convert that to young people's numbers? Haha

**Hitcher** · 15th February 2008, 10:54

Originally Posted by MGST

So my bike does 65mpg. Maybe some brainiack can convert that to young people's numbers? Haha

You've already done the conversion. Your bike's odometer is most likely calibrated in kilometres and every petrol pump I have seen in New Zealand dispenses its product in litres. It is illegal to do otherwise.

**jcupit69** · 15th February 2008, 10:57

1999 rs 250:
bout 120km on $20 of 98 octaine + overly priced fully synthetic oil.....but its worth it

**BOGAR** · 15th February 2008, 11:04

Must be doing somthing wrong

as i only get about 16.5 km/l running 98.
must say the bike dose better on the 98 at the moment.

**crazybigal** · 15th February 2008, 11:12

99 injected blackbird, 12.7km per l mixed riding
could be better

**vifferman** · 15th February 2008, 11:15

The most I did was about $33.

**Horse** · 15th February 2008, 11:17

Hmmm, should I be using Imperial or US gallons for the MPG calculation? Presumably Americans use US gallons in their published specs for vehicles, but it appears posters here are using Imperial.

Anyway, since I got it in December, my GV250 has averaged:

4.3l/100km
23.31km/l
53.83mpg (US)
65.84mpg (Imperial)

All on 91.

**steveb64** · 15th February 2008, 11:24

On the Duc - as good as 20 km/l (open road, putting at speed limit, not really passing anything), down to < 12km/l (open road, having a good ride...

).
I don't ride it in town. At least, not enough to get any sort of fuel usage worked out.

**MaxCannon** · 15th February 2008, 11:25

The GN does 25km/L in heavy traffic

Over the holidays when my trip to work dropped from 20 minutes to about 9 minutes I was getting close to 30km/L

I'm encouraged by some of the figures I see here for larger bikes.
Part of my justification for riding was the fuel saving - I'd be stoked if I could do 20km/L commuting on a 650

**turtleman** · 15th February 2008, 12:06

Originally Posted by MaxCannon

The GN does 25km/L in heavy traffic

Over the holidays when my trip to work dropped from 20 minutes to about 9 minutes I was getting close to 30km/L

I'm encouraged by some of the figures I see here for larger bikes.
Part of my justification for riding was the fuel saving - I'd be stoked if I could do 20km/L commuting on a 650

I'm getting 22 - 25 km/l from my 2007 VT750 C2 when commuting.

The worst I've had is 20 km/l open road, when on a trip, Akld - Wgtn. This was for the leg of the journey that included SH4 to Wanganui so lots of twisties, accelerate/decelerate etc.

**Grub** · 15th February 2008, 12:24

Originally Posted by RED YZFR6

Must be doing somthing wrong

as i only get about 16.5 km/l running 98.
must say the bike dose better on the 98 at the moment.

Can be how you ride and all that (do bike carbs have pump-jets?). One of the things I did on my old bike which got 2km/l more was to have the carbs balanced. Went from 18.5 to 20 km/l