I have never bothered checking my fuel consumption in the past but decided to, having noticed how frugal the gauge movement was on my last trip to Porangahau. I have read on the GSR several Yank GS850 owners crowing about getting 45-55mpg on their basically flat roads. I thought that they probably were running very lean to achieve this figure, but was surprised to find I had averaged 47 mpg or 6 lts/100 kms on the return trip. Sure I wasn't hammering it continually, but it did get a few squirts into the higher rpm range, and some of the surface is undulating. Has anyone else done fuel consumption checks on their whale beasts?
US gallons are 3.7 ltr as well, them and there 55 gallon drums. My LC was using 12.5 ltrs to wickles 10 and grant's 9.5 (999 ducati) on the way back from welly, not sure if Kms tho, I did get 55mpg out of my duke on the last HB BFTP ride
6l/100km if i'm VERY gentle on the throttle. otherwise 7-8l/100km
On the run to Te Kuiti....200km 9 litres....just at a touring speed of less than 130..... about 60 mpgs.......the Forgotton Highway it was wayyyyyy down on this. Those older twins are good on gas...
Don't get me started on the appalling fuel consumption of modern (modern defined as post 1970) bikes. Last fuel top up my scrap iron collection was finally achieving 80 mpg. I think that a ( barely) acceptable consumption for a four stroke ridden fairly hard in modern traffic. *cars* get 50mpg nowadays FHS
My Triton with all the fruit,but single carb,used to get 100mpg,and that wasn't being easy on the throttle either.I got 95mpg out of my Domi....with all the fruit,and twin carbs.I used to ride my Rickman all over and get lost on back roads....with a 1 1/2 gallon tank.Modern bikes are crap on fuel economy.The R65 does about 17km per litre or so...much better on open roads,worse with lots of gravel roads....48mpg.If it had twice the hp of a 650 Triumph I'd be happy with that.But I don't think twice as reliable equates to fuel economy directly.
I get 200km per litre, or were we talking about fuel?
HAH!...u beat me to it dodyrighteye.........
you could use one of these to carry spare oil and parts http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-273961168.htm
Eddys bike needs that wickle, it already has side car mounts on it, HB BFTP parts pack horse, We already have th flash HB BFTP Rescue and Recovery van
On my R65, XV750 and XJ600 I seemed to get in the low 50's mpg. Then I bought the VF and was a little disturbed to be lucky to scrape 40mpg!. Even on a trip and riding sedately I still only managed 41. Gulp, I was a littlle surprised.
Lucky it's got a good sized tank then Diggers. They were a fairly high performance motor in their day and I would expect economy would have been the last thing the engineers were thinking of.
Averaging 20K's to the litre almost all the time, sometimes a bit better when not twisting her neck off. There are some extremely "good" figures being bandied about here.
they sound like fishing stories to me.........
Yeah, this subject falls into the controversial category of other subjects like "Best oils", "Pods vs airbox" and " How much HP?". There is a controversial smiles attachment that probably fits some of these claims but I can't click on it at present (smiles have been deactivated).
