Fuel mileage?

[woodboats]

I sometimes get asked what sort of milage my bike gets...so I was wondering if anyone wanted to post their bikes milage for others to ponder.
With such a wide varity of bikes out there it just may interest folks for a number of different reasons..no mfg bashing, just sharing some info.
I'll start:
750 Honda Shadow 25 k's per liter
250 Suzuki Intruder 32 k's per liter.

[offrd]

BMW F650, old 96 model been to the moon and back!

22k-Litre~

Due for tune and service... May improve!

[Jinx3d]

About 10-12 km/litre

[spookytooth]

hmmm dunno.I fill it ride till it hits reserve then fill it again.Never bothered to look at mileage

[MIXONE]

370k to reseve(17l) on 95.410k on 98!!

[The Pastor]

cbr 250 14km/l

[rainman]

Glad you did this, woodboats. I thought about it the other day but hadn't got around to posting the thread.

Marauder VZ800, 1997, overdue for a good session in the workshop: 5 l/100km commuting, about 4.5 open road.

[Hitcher]

FJR1300 = 18-20km/l.
Bandit 650 = 20-24km/l

[rainman]

Sorry, that's 20-23km/l I suppose...

As a related question, what's the best mechanical way to improve your fuel efficiency for typical around town traffic? (I'm assuming fairly steady speed, no major acceleration/deceleration, or high speed).

[Trouser]

CBF250 is around 23-25 km/l mixed hillly thrash road and open road commuting.

[200BUSA]

Hayabusa 16.5km/ltr open road. 11km/ltr round town.

[Oakie]

CB400 20km/l
CB250 25km/l

[MacD]

Bandit 1200 (18 month average): 16.6 km/l

[McDuck]

7-8l per 100kms

[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 try and run on 98 but it's only possible to do that about 50% of the time so the above is an average across all fuels. The difference between 95 and 98 is interesting.
- 95 = 17.82 km/l
- 98 = 19.77 km/l

The conclusion therefore is that 98 is not more expensive to use than 95. I wouldn't let 91 near my bike.

[Pwalo]

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]

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]

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!! :lol:

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

[Hitcher]

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]

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

[BOGAR]

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]

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

[vifferman]

The most I did was about $33.

[Horse]

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]

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

[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

[turtleman]

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]

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

[Eddieb]

1982 R80G/S. who knows how many hundred thousand km's, valve clearances need doing.

14-15km/l depending on riding.

[Badjelly]

Yamaha Scorpio 225 30 km/l puttering around Wellington southern suburbs. No open roads but lots of hills.

[HTFU]

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.

Pretty good for a bigger bike. Pretty much the same as the GPX 2007 edition. I think performance wise they are pretty similar as well (0-100 and 80-120 speed tests in Automag)

[McDuck]

I think i need to get a more economical bike....

[savy]

Honda Shadow 750 / 2up 22.5ks per liter

[CookMySock]

Hyosung GT650R on a trip, taking it nice and easy sitting on constant 100km/hr no pillion, mostly flat road.
http://www.wises.co.nz/d/33/Auckland/Wellsford/WELLSFORD/Bay+of+Plenty/Edgecumbe/EDGECUMBE/

Speedo reads 350 kms, wises says 368 kms. Tank brimmed off at wellsford, takes 15L at destination.

350km / 15Litres.

23km/L
4.3 L/100km
66.3 MPG

holy shit!! Thats mad MPG..

DB

[Kwaka14]

about 16km/l on the ZX14 if I baby it on the open road

[Hitcher]

I'd like to some day meet the idiot who invented that litres per hundred kilometres nonsense. Completely counterintuitive, ut humiliter opinor.

[Coldrider]

20 KMs per litre on a ZX9R if I am not looking for a :Police: to add additional cost to the ride.

[Badjelly]

Hmmm, should I be using Imperial or US gallons for the MPG calculation?
No.

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To the person who red repped this post: You're right, it's not very helpful is it? Sorry.

[nallac]

on my 92 1200 kitted sporty i'm getting between 220-250 k's out of a
Tank between 12 and 14 litres per fill.
so about 18-20k's a litre.

[Phurrball]

11 to 14km/L on the Firestorm, about 22-23km/L on the VTR250 (being thrashed everywhere!)

Our FXR used to be about 30ish km/L from memory.

Somewhere on KB theres a fuel consumption conversion spreadsheet (km/L to MPG to L/100KM etc) and a milage calculator - I use it every fill and as a maintenance record. It even does graphs!

Righto, off to the corner to play with my pocket protector by myself. As you were.

[Soul.Trader]

30 - 35km/l round town on the SR250.

[banditrider]

Best: 19.48km/l
Worst: 13.83km/l
Average after 11,000kms: 16.58km/l

[Choco]

GN250
- lowest (ever) 27KM/L
- Highest (ever) 33KM/L
- Av everyday 28-29KM/L.

You might laugh at it for its speed but I go twice as far as a thou :D

[Okey Dokey]

This is a really interesting thread. I'm bummed to see that based on my last fill I'm only getting:

13.25k/l Suzuki GSXR 750
mostly open road

I checked this about a dozen times because I couldn't believe it was so low...

I guess it's running rich...or could it be my riding? I've never thought about the fuel efficiency before but I think I will start to note it down, at least for a while.

[breakaway]

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!! :lol:

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

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=65mpg+in+km%2Fl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[HornetBoy]

2004 600cc Katana - Aftermarket pipes ,stag 1 jetkit ,ignition advancer +5

18ltr Fuel Tank

Best = 400kms
Average = 350kms
Worst = 220kms

probably just as good if not better than most 250cc bikes in fuel useage

[awd]

Buell XB12X absolutely standard. I average 21km/l on every tank. It's the most economical bike I've owned.

CBR600F4i was the most uneconomical at around 14km/l average. Oddly enough I found 98 had worse economy than 95 with that bike.

[P38]

Suzuki Boulevard C50T 20kms/L

[bimotabob]

30 - 35km/l round town on the SR250.

That's about 85mpg.
I just don't believe it - esp round town, stops and starts hot and cold idling etc etc.
None of the 50cc bikes I owned ever got close to that
and Suzuki advertise their scooters at 75mpg.

Take a lot of these figures with a grain of salt

[n0regret5]

Buell XB12X absolutely standard. I average 21km/l on every tank. It's the most economical bike I've owned.

CBR600F4i was the most uneconomical at around 14km/l average. Oddly enough I found 98 had worse economy than 95 with that bike.

thats not odd..thats bastard EU tightening the restrictions, makes your engine burn more fuel to get rid of the excess sulphur in the exhaust via the catalytic converter..don't quote me, though..its just what i kinda remember being told haha

[Roki_nz]

22km/L on a 2002 GSX 250

Mostly riding like a pussy

[grusomhat]

Around 17km/l around town and 24km/l riding as easy as possible on the open roads (ie constant 100kmh for 30+ minutes.

Road to Cape Reinga from Napier and I used slightly more petrol on my 150 than my dads 650. Was not happy as I had to add two stroke oil to that. Gah I guess that's what I get for buying a two stroke.

[avrflr]

19.5km/l combination city/motorway. 400kms to reserve. BMW R1100RT.

[Duc]

18 - 20 ks per litre average. 2002 S4 Monster with race cans and Power Commander. Runs fine on 91 octane.

Smooth throttle hand makes a difference :yes:

[JATZ]

BMW F650, old 96 model been to the moon and back!

22k-Litre~

Due for tune and service... May improve!
How the hell do you get that.
Checked ours today and got 19.2 k/l for mine and 19.4 k/l for hers

[Mr Triple]

I get around 21.5 kml on my er6f

[TOTO]

Hyosung GT250R

25.8 km per litre which comes 3.87L per 100K

[TOTO]

I'd like to some day meet the idiot who invented that litres per hundred kilometres nonsense. Completely counterintuitive, ut humiliter opinor.

Actually I'm guessing that it comes from Europe (where I come from) and growing up my dad and actually everyone refers to fuel consumption as L/100k so yea , may have come here with da Immugrints :yes:

[Badjelly]

30-35km/l round town on the SR250.


I just don't believe it - esp round town, stops and starts hot and cold idling etc etc.
None of the 50cc bikes I owned ever got close to that
and Suzuki advertise their scooters at 75mpg.

Take a lot of these figures with a grain of salt

No, that's about right for a small, 4-stroke single round town. I get 30 km/l from my Scorpio round town, and that's over a very hilly route.

Are the 50cc bikes and scooters you're referring to 2-strokes?

[Badjelly]

I'd like to some day meet the idiot who invented that litres per hundred kilometres nonsense. Completely counterintuitive, ut humiliter opinor.

What people call "intuition" is usually just what they're used to.

At least l/100 km is a measure of fuel *consumption* rather than its inverse. There was a BMW ad in America a few years back referring to the fact that they cut the fuel supply completely at high speed on the overrun. The title was "0 mpg at 100 mph". There's one ad-writer who doesn't find the mpg scale intuitive!

Anyway, as long as you remember the litre/100 km and km/l scales cross at a value of 10 you'll be sweet.

[Magua]

18 Km/L commuting.
15 Km/L on the open road.
I've seen 13km/L once, argh.

[johnnyflash]

15.12/L lowest ever, er I might have been stretching its legs a wee mite..
17.11/L average, over 12000 kms
19.91/L was the most ever per tank, real gentle like :-)
Which for 1500cc I suppose aint too bad

[gw555]

Hyosung GT250 average 27km/l
Best 31.5km/l and worst 25km/l

[Dave_G]

RG500 - 8 km/ltr maybe 9 on a really good day (but thats gonna cost a set of plugs), 'bout 7 when hurrying along. Would I change it nah!

[Badjelly]

Go to this site

http://www.umgweb.com/

and click on the Used M/C Guide link. It gives data including fuel consumption on a variety of different bikes (mostly oldish). The fuel consumption figures are in miles per Imperial gallon unfortunately, but they look about right for all the bikes I've owned.

[MGST]

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=65mpg+in+km%2Fl&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Thanks Breakaway!! :niceone:

65MPG = 27.634 km / Litre. That means for my 12 litre tank I can get 331km. Never had that, I usually fill again at ~260km for about 11 litres. Another litre @ 27km is 287 +/-. 331km WTF??? Doesn't add up.

[johnnyflash]

my result would be 23/L , 4.5litres to the gallon 1.6Km to a Mile so if you get 65mpg then 23.11km/L.... I think :-() assuming we are talking UK gallens not USA gallens..

[madandy]

My old Gixxer gives 16-19km/L. And she spits flames too :)

[pimslagman]

I did 40 kms / ltr, riding in city traffic. Real good fuel economy, but the small tank (3.5ltr?) made me fill up every couple of days though...

[homer]

Just last weekend i got 210 km and filled with just under 15 litres
thats open road 75 km and at the trac for the day about 3 ,20 min sessions in the arvo . riding in the morning was quite casual

Little more open road riding in the day as well

[Stromble]

I sometimes get asked what sort of milage my bike gets...so I was wondering if anyone wanted to post their bikes milage for others to ponder.
With such a wide varity of bikes out there it just may interest folks for a number of different reasons..no mfg bashing, just sharing some info.
I'll start:
750 Honda Shadow 25 k's per liter
250 Suzuki Intruder 32 k's per liter.


Kawasaki Versys

19 Litre Tank = 340Kms average

17ish Km per Litre..

[Unit]

$90 of 96 does 800ks on the ZX14 (both mine or DMNTDs riding). So is a 23ltr tank that does easily 300ks with still some in reserve (not keen to run it dry just for the sake of the exercise of knowing exact milage).
Not sure what the $s per Km is, but pretty happy with it.
SV would do Tauranga to Dairy Flats, about 280ks, but I cant remember what size tank that is (about 18-20ltrs?) and that was just only hitting reserve so still had some juice in the tank.
Guess it all depends on how hard one twists the thottle, and if commuting etc, luggage, weight of rider and luggage, pillion? etc.

[Kirill357]

Honda CBR600 '92
23-25 km/l with 98

[Timber020]

1998 Fireblade 900cc 18km per litre, all city heavy traffic riding.

[geoffc]

VTR1000F, tour of South Island averaging 14.7km/litre. Much less around town or if you boot it! Got up to 17km/litre on one trip Oamaru to Twizel.

[Oldfulla]

I get around 200-230kms per tank, 17ltrs I think it is. 2005 zx6. Im a heavy bugger so Im picking the bike is working rather hard therefore not so great on gas.

[doc]

$90 of 96 does 800ks on the ZX14 (both mine or DMNTDs riding). So is a 23ltr tank that does easily 300ks with still some in reserve (not keen to run it dry just for the sake of the exercise of knowing exact milage).
Not sure what the $s per Km is, but pretty happy with it.
SV would do Tauranga to Dairy Flats, about 280ks, but I cant remember what size tank that is (about 18-20ltrs?) and that was just only hitting reserve so still had some juice in the tank.
Guess it all depends on how hard one twists the thottle, and if commuting etc, luggage, weight of rider and luggage, pillion? etc.

and the MV does ????? or it hurts too much to think about it ?

[gunrunner]

Have a Vmax havent done a MPG have been to scared but will let you know:soon:

[hayd3n]

all i know is it cost me 10 bucks to get to oamaru from dunedin so 22 ks a litre
oamaru is just over 100 ks from here

[gunrunner]

That's about 85mpg.
I just don't believe it - esp round town, stops and starts hot and cold idling etc etc.
None of the 50cc bikes I owned ever got close to that
and Suzuki advertise their scooters at 75mpg.

Take a lot of these figures with a grain of salt

maybe another one that thinks there is 10 litres to a gallon :doh:

[gunrunner]

I'd like to some day meet the idiot who invented that litres per hundred kilometres nonsense. Completely counterintuitive, ut humiliter opinor.

I second the motion:argh:

[xgnr]

I get 20-22 Km/l don't seem to matter open road or round town.

That's almost always 300km before the red light comes on and 400+km total in theory. (havn't run her dry... dont intend to... imagine 15 years of shit getting sucked up :blink: )

[rocketman1]

I get 18/km litre on a trip around the coro loop alot of 2nd gear stuff, so should do a bit better on a long run

[Blackshear]

14.1 km/l
15.2 km/l
10.2 km/l

1990 Bandit 250 =)

[The Stranger]

I second the motion:argh:

I third it.

Blackbird=38mpg
Blackbird+K&N filter=43mpg
Blackbird+K&N+98=45mpg
Fazer with heaps of mods=40mpg
XT660=50mpg
XT660+DNA filter=55mpg

All figures are for city riding only.

[BASS-TREBLE]

05 GN250

Average with 75% at 100kph = 27km/l
Best 35ish km/l on the 250 taranaki ride, same pace as the slowish group
Worst about 18km/l , Thats classed as trying to be 'fast' on windy stuff

[Devil]

KTM 690sm - 22km/L. Commuting and open road riding.

[slofox]

2007 Suzuki SV650S - 21 - 23 km/l (55-60mpg) - depending on whether I ride it like a lunatic or like a little old lady.......

[rottiguy]

Is that US gallons ( 3.75 litres ) or Pommy gallons ( 4.25 litres ) does make a bit of difference I spose


I third it.

Blackbird=38mpg
Blackbird+K&N filter=43mpg
Blackbird+K&N+98=45mpg
Fazer with heaps of mods=40mpg
XT660=50mpg
XT660+DNA filter=55mpg

All figures are for city riding only.

[Badjelly]

Is that US gallons ( 3.75 litres ) or Pommy gallons ( 4.25 litres ) does make a bit of difference I spose

Quibble: a US gallon is 3.79 litres (close to 3.75) but an Imperial gallon is 4.55 litres (quite a lot more than the 4.25 you said). So yes, it does make quite a bit of difference, a factor of 1.20.

Simpler IMHO to forget the silly things and use km/l: 10 km/l = 23.5 mpg (US) = 28.2 mpg (UK). Or even 1/100 km: 10 km/l = 10 l/100 km (handy, eh?).

[vifferman]

Simpler IMHO to forget the silly things and use km/l:
But if you're an Olde Phart, it's easier to relate to MPG. Especially if your CakeMixaah has an imperial speedometer. With a speedo corrector fitted, due to lowered gearing.

I was shocked (!) to find out what piss-poor mileage my bike was getting. Maybe I measured stuff worngA. Or calculated the odometer correction due to the speedo corrector the worngA way round. :crazy:
Still, even with those potential errors, it's about 30% more economical than the FahrtSturm. I suspect if I had it tuned (valve clearances, SV synch), removed the PCII, and reconnected the O2 sensors, the mileage might improve dramatically, perhaps in direct and inverse proportion to the smileage.

[southernmike]

K7 GSXR 1000 gives me about 17km per L
'07 FLSTSC was about 20km per L
'01 RSV Mille 18km per L

My sports bikes can be much better and a little worse depending on speed :msn-wink:

[Badjelly]

But if you're an Olde Phart, it's easier to relate to MPG.

I am an old fart, and km/l are not that hard, really.

Personally, I don't think l/100 km are all that hard, either, but I know I'm in the minority on that.


Especially if your CakeMixaah has an imperial speedometer.


And you fill it up at the imperial petrol pump?:blink: I wondered why those old farts always took their Morris Oxfords and Triumph Speed Twins to the pump around the back of the local Shell. :sunny:

[The Stranger]

Is that US gallons ( 3.75 litres ) or Pommy gallons ( 4.25 litres ) does make a bit of difference I spose

Yes, I didn't specify did I. I usually just ignore silly American conventions - like putting dates arse about face, so I use imperial gallons, not US gallons.

Of course one could argue why not just use litres?
Well
1) There is no standardisation of how to express the result.
2) My frame of refrence.

[ZK-Awesome]

I've calculated both the scooter and Suzuki A100 bike.

SJ50: This was on the open road at 60k
1.24L burned in 32km.
60mpg
25.8 km per litre
8.4c per kilometre (@2.19 a litre)
3.87L per 100km

A100: This was mainly stop-start around town, with one short blat at 90.
2.2L per 54km
57mpg
24.5 km per litre
8.9 cents per km
4.07L per 100km

So the scooter comes out minutely better in this test. With that said, I know what I'd rather be riding :Punk:

If the A100 was calculated on the open road (cruising at 80k), I reckon it'd be a few MPG better than the SJ50. I plan to ave another test soon.

[Dazza]

Fat bastard worse case senario, KTM SuperDuke 10.2k/ltr :devil2:

[Pussy]

Fat bastard worse case senario, KTM SuperDuke 10.2k/ltr :devil2:

Too many pies, Dazza..... :D

[Biggles2000]

Road King 17km/l

[Dazza]

Too many pies, Dazza..... :DNah,just lazy & too many beers :devil2:

[Sellout]

Yeah...

I get 250kms from my 15.3l of 2 stroke (300ml oil, 15l petrol)

I think thats about 6l/100km or 17km/l but maths ain't something I care for so if I'm wrong I'm wrong. I must admit I don't ride the bike with economy in mind!!!

[RPM]

03 R1 13-14 Km/l

[stevewederell]

MKy first (GN250) used to get about 30k/L around town and some 70-80kph areas. Open road was alot worse, but never did enough to gauge it.:headbang:

CB600 Hornet seems to be getting about 17k/L at more in similar conditions but am trying to clean and fix fuel system so who knows, maybe more soon??:apint:

[Rback]

CBR 954 20km/l at 100km/hr
14-16km/l above that

[de_wood_elf]

Yamaha Zeal 250 does about 20km/L

[Hitcher]

Mine managed about 14km/L. Tops. It drank like a fish.

[Dave Lobster]

My filthy auto does 70mpg, two up, with luggage. Slightly more on 98 and slightly less on 91.

[slopster]

07 zx6r
best 14km per L
worst 9km per L
all on open road at quick pace

[gunrunner]

92 Vmax

174kms - red light (11.4kpl)

Full tank - 15kpl (empty)

But riden to the Max :eek5:

[rottiguy]

Just done a check and my 1250 bandit did 19.6K/litre of "ordinary" riding, which gives me a range ( theoretically ) of 371km. But apparently the millage will improve in after a couple more thousand kilometers once it's properly run in.

[rocketman1]

SV1000S
I get 18-20km /L open road, moderate riding. 48-50mpg
I understand the young guys can only get 33-37mpg out of the same bikes.
I cannot understand why................NOT

[rottiguy]

haha yeah can't figure out why the fuel gauge goes down every time I ring it's tits off in every gear :blink:
I'm doing the capital cruise so will be interesting to see how it averages out over 1000km, might do a economy run to see what she uses at no more than 110km/h over a few ks

[MotoGirl]

The best economy I've ever had is 17.75L/100KM and that was cruising back to Tauranga from Wellington. It's normally around 13-14L per 100KM.
Oh, the bike is an RSVR.

[EtheB]

'86 CB750F2C on daily commute of 78Km Rangiora - South Christchurch returning 17.7Km/Litre

[Sellout]

I'm getting around 1-2 litres per 100km at present on my commute...




(The RZ is laid up with gearbox "issues" and I'm riding one of the NQ50's!! At least it's still a 2T...:no:)

[OutForADuck]

Now lets see:
Gentle Hard riding

K7 Streetfighter: 18.8Km/l unmeasured :mellow:
Beemer (worked) R1100S: 19Km/l two and a bit sessions at Taupo per tank :shit: Guessing 3Km/l
Madass (125) scooter: 47Km/l 47Km/l (Only ever gets trashed)


The Madass chain/tyres and everything else also last forever!!!!

[MarkH]

My 400cc scooter gives me 22-23km per litre if I ride pretty fast around the city and 26-28kms per litre if I take it easy and ride gently.

[Manxman]

About 10-12 km/litre

:gob: Crikey.

20kms/l on 91, 22km/l on 95/96. 02 R6

[Winston001]

So far, about 10 - 12km/l although I really don't take much notice. There is certainly a grin factor. :done:

[centercore]

12.5k's a litre - 91 Zxr250c thats actually pretty shit. Using shell 95.

[beyond]

GSX1400: Best with missus on the back and full top box 330kms on 21.5 litres travelling around 120kmh with the odd squirt overtaking and a few short squirts at around 160-170kmh.

Worst: Coro GP 180 kms on 21.5 litres :(

[ducatilover]

23km/l riding like a limp wristed donut puncher 19km/l when riding normal and actualy using the throttle:rockon: on a fag spada

[ikov]

Generally commuting, and motorway spells on weekends across city and around.

Honda CBR150R = 30-32 km/l (depending premium or regular fuel)

not too much of a difference seen coz primarily urban run 5 x week

[Oakie]

Holy thread-dredge Batman! But seeing as we're here, I'm less that impressed at the 13.2km/l I'm getting out of my GSR600. Been checked out at the shop and everything found to be in order. Commuting only but still, my carburetted 600 Bandit was getting about 18km/l doing the same work. Less than happy!

[ikov]

Holy thread-dredge Batman! But seeing as we're here, I'm less that impressed at the 13.2km/l I'm getting out of my GSR600. Been checked out at the shop and everything found to be in order. Commuting only but still, my carburetted 600 Bandit was getting about 18km/l doing the same work. Less than happy!

HAHAHA!

Hey Oakie, since you're one of the few on the forum to have had a CB400 super four with the Vtec, you reckon you could dig up sum mileage memories of different types of riding on the old Honda? Since you're here anyways ;)

[Oakie]

HAHAHA!

Hey Oakie, since you're one of the few on the forum to have had a CB400 super four with the Vtec, you reckon you could dig up sum mileage memories of different types of riding on the old Honda? Since you're here anyways ;)

Memories be damned. I keep records! Over a 1 year period it returned an average of 18.2km/l ranging from 16.1km/l to 20.2km/l. How 'bout that!

[reggie1198]

About 10-12 km/litre


+1
About the same for the Duke, even less when using the big stick

[amboman]

14km / lt FJR 1300 2010 model with 12,000km two up with a heap of gear all open road

18km / lt FZ6R 2014 model with 1000km short 100km trips while running in

[awayatc]

A couple of smiles per gallon. ..

sometimes more

[Ribit]

2010 cbr600rr

about 4.7L/100km or 21km/L

MPG: no f'in idea. this is the 21st century FFS! when did you stop using drams / furlong?

[awayatc]

Better open your bonnet again

seems you got at least 1 bee stuck there.


fwiw your reading capabilies are a bit below par

[dinosaur]

19 litre tank on my Bandit 1200 (less than standard)

ride nice and calm 320ks
ride like a nutcase fully geared and packed up on tour i got as bad as 180ks

so about 17ks a ltr
to as little as 9.5ks a ltr

Tyre wear is bad as well - my Toyota is far cheaper to commute in

AWESOME LOVE IT - I didn't buy a bike to be economical :woohoo: :wings:

[Mike.Gayner]

Fuelly tells me I'm getting 5.5l/100km aka 18.1km/l aka 42.7 mikes/gallon. That's on the 750. No idea on the 350, just fill it up when I switch to reserve. Tiny tank.

[Ribit]

Better open your bonnet again
seems you got at least 1 bee stuck there.
fwiw your reading capabilies are a bit below par

Its not you i'm poking a stick at, (i get plenty of smiles per gallon) its a gybe at the oldies (and americans) that insist on using outdated units of measure.

[MarkH]

The ST1300 gets somewhere around 16-17 kms per litre of go juice. It could get better, but I'd be having less fun. It could get worse, which would mean I'm paying for extra fun - I wouldn't want to get caught having too much fun though!

Would it be cheaper to commute to work by car?
Who the fuck cares!
Cars: are too wide, have twice the ideal number of wheels and they lean the wrong way around corners!
Besides, every day while working I'm looking forward to the ride home - I wouldn't get that feeling about a drive in a car.

[release_the_bees]

13 kms/l from the SV1000 and 31 km/l from the CBR250R. The 250 literally pays for its running and registration costs in fuel savings over using the SV1000S as a daily commuter.
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[caseye]

2011 M50 Turangi to Serf Dorkland = 317 K's, 15 litres used =21.1 K's per Litre.
2009 Bandit 1250 " " " " " " " " " " "

Absolutely wrapped with this sort of mileage,Op's sorry, fuel efficient kilometer munching motorcycles.
However if pushed the ol bandy does do somewhat less.
Like Dinosaur said, didn't buy it for efficiency.

[breakaway]

http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/

[Yamahardman]

I once did rotorua to hamilton on the rd400. It used a little over 14l to do 100kms. The gb500 does about 220kms on 14 l. So its pretty contrasting between a 4stroke and a 2stroke.

[Mike.Gayner]

The original workshop manual for my A7 optimistically advises something like 39mpg, around 6l/100km. I've never measured the fuel usage, but it's at least double that, more like triple.

Yeah the old 2 strokes aren't exactly efficient machines - of course their power delivery doesn't really encourage economical behaviour either.

[ikov]

Memories be damned. I keep records! Over a 1 year period it returned an average of 18.2km/l ranging from 16.1km/l to 20.2km/l. How 'bout that!

that will be just fine... screw that, thats bloody awesome of you!

[saltydog]

I reckon about 15km per litre. brisk riding, with carbys

[mossy1200]

The 14 used to get 400km a tank on open road at 23 km a litre.

Did a few things to it and now its 18 km a litre.

Assuming the bikes not telling fibs to me.

[banditrider]

http://badges.fuelly.com/images/sig-metric2/69943.png (http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/kawasaki/concours-zg1400/2008/banditrider/69943)

http://badges.fuelly.com/images/sig-metric2/69940.png (http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/suzuki/dl1000/2008/banditrider/69940)

[awayatc]

Harley 88 twin cam between 260 and 350 km's on tank of 19 liters.
Do get slightly further on 98 then on 91

With Mikuni slide carb /free flow air filter still possible to get close to 350 km's......
but usually lack selfcontrol to get over 300...

usually get speed tax added every so many fill ups,
which brings economy down a touch.........

[yevjenko]

Let's continue with this old thread dredge

1000cc Aprilia RSV Tuono

Av 8.02 l/100km's (12.5 km's per litre) since march this year (4680 km's 371.5 litres - daily driver)

Best 6.79 l/100km's
Worst 10.86 l/100kms :innocent:

According to Fuelio for android anyway. Neat little app.

[cds CBR]

2009 CBR 100RR
avr 15.5 km/l
best 19.2 km/l

[GSW]

Just picked up my 03 ZX6RR on Saturday and did from Hastings to Levin around 220km's on 12.5l

Somthing like 17.6kmL

[russd7]

zzr1100, normally bout 280kms per 17l but occasionally 340km/17l and sometimes 190kms/17l, can't be faffed working it out and generally travel 2up

GL1500 240km/17l or there abouts, haven't tried it at slower speeds yet but it does need a good tune up and carb balance when the weather gets warm enough not to need antarctic type gear to stay warm in my garage

[strandedinnz]

My DR-Z400SM gets 29km per litre .. doesn't seem to change a great deal if I thrash it or drive sensibly ... so I just tend to thrash it everywhere :-)

Since it doesn't have a petrol gauge I track things with Fuelly ... bit of a stats nerd :-)

http://badges.fuelly.com/images/sig-metric/222407.png (http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/suzuki/drz400sm/2010/MarkinNZ/222407)

[Big Dog]

I have been charting mine for about 6 months.
On the cb1300 my my work trip goes (km/l) :
17.1 in standard conditions with no mentionable traffic.
16.6 in cold weather, I suspect my riding is a little more erratic / urgent plus I tend to warm the bike up cold mornings.
16.1 in wet or windy conditions.
15.9 when wearing wet weather gear (raining or not).
Observations over 12,000s of logged riding in 5 months.

Dr350 19.5. No matter what, 42 tooth rear. Observed without a log for 36000 over 5 years.
22.2-22.5 observed with a log app over 2000kms.
Bighorn over 10000 kms. Some logged some not.
With dirty oil 5.6
Clean oil 9.6.

[Big Dog]

My DR-Z400SM gets 29km per litre .. doesn't seem to change a great deal if I thrash it or drive sensibly ... so I just tend to thrash it everywhere :-)

Since it doesn't have a petrol gauge I track things with Fuelly ... bit of a stats nerd :-)

http://badges.fuelly.com/images/sig-metric/222407.png (http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/suzuki/drz400sm/2010/MarkinNZ/222407)

Do I out nerd you by knowing it costs me an extra litre a day in cold weather or 2 litres a day in warm weather to wear my wet gear?

[SILVER SUZI]

I need to put at least 16 litres in my R1 to do 200km(two days commuting). That's 12.5km/L.

[nzspokes]

I average 7.6l per 100ks. That's with huge carbs and -1 front sprocket. And I don't do cruze. :Punk:

[strandedinnz]

Do I out nerd you by knowing it costs me an extra litre a day in cold weather or 2 litres a day in warm weather to wear my wet gear?

I almost wet myself with excitement .... ;-)

[Daffyd]

How about 38.13 km/l, or 2.02 l/100km, or 107 mpg? This from brand new to 1900km, mostly 2 up, (occasionally 3 up) and in stop/start traffic. And I mean stop/start traffic... Traffic light cycles normally 120 secs and some trips never out of 2nd gear. Plus there is also the odd out of town ride, 2 up, of 30-50 km where I can open it up a bit to open road speeds.

[Berries]

Fuck knows. I fill it up before the light comes on, sometimes it costs more than the previous time, sometimes less, depends where I am and how many bars of chocolate I buy at the same time.