Saving on fuel is really no excuse for the missus! What fuel economy do you get?

**avgas** · 6th August 2010, 11:53

Originally Posted by trademe900

worse than my Nissan wingroad wagon

Correct me if I am wrong - but the wingroad (petrol) and the focus (tdi) are the most fuel efficient 1800's you can purchase in NZ's market.
So I am not surprised they have better economy that almost ANY bike.

**avgas** · 6th August 2010, 11:56

Wingroad - 6.2L / 100km

http://www.nissan.co.nz/pdf/specs/specs_wingroad.pdf

**slofox** · 6th August 2010, 12:10

Last Bike: SV650S K7. Around 50kw: 20 - 25 km/l. 4 - 5 l per 100km.

Current Bike: GSX-R600 K8. Around 80kw: 14 - 16 km/l. 6 - 7 l per 100km.

Current Wagon: Subaru Lancaster 3 litre flat 6. Around 115kw: 10 l per 100km if I am really careful. Otherwise about 12l per 100km...

Them neddies have to come from somewhere...

**george formby** · 6th August 2010, 12:29

With new emulsion tubes I'm getting 6.5l / 100k, every trip is a bit captain sensible & a bit throttle to the stop (norfland

). I don't care a rats ass as long as the bike is burning it & not firing it out the exhaust like it used too.
I want a 500cc 2 stroke with a big tank, a bad attitude & running 98 please.

**MarkH** · 6th August 2010, 12:33

Originally Posted by trademe900

Who else agrees that most bike's fuel economy is pretty appalling for how light they are.

I am still astounded at the fuel economy of my 02 GSXR750. Even without gassing it (how can you with speed limits anyway), it is worse than my Nissan wingroad wagon on fuel. about 6.8l/100km with a mix of motorway and 60k zones.

250's and 400's were not that much better too...

What fuel economy do you guys get for which bikes?

Nissan Wingroad? Is that really the car equivalent of a GSXR-750? A Subaru 2.0R will use over 10.5l per 100km and still isn't as fast as a GSXR-750 (but a hell of a lot closer than a wingroad).

My AN400 is good for commuting around the city, not hard to get more than 25km/litre (under 4l per 100km) if I ride gently. My best has been over 30km/litre averaged over more than 350kms (gentle open road riding).

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

The daily run of around 110ks to and from work was costing around $18 - $20 in diesel for the 4X4 ... it was around $14-$15 in petrol on the 650 .. but I killed a $300 rear tyre in 3,000 ks .. so that's around $10 a day in rubber .. so around $24-$25 per day in travel (plus other costs ...)

Road tax on a diesel isn't cheap, you would need to add that to the 4x4 running costs when you are comparing it to the costs of running the bike.

I only partially changed from the car to the scooter to save gas, a much bigger gain was the reduction in travel time in heavy traffic - a car just can't match a bike at getting through the Auckland city traffic. At 5pm on a weekday my scooter is way faster than a Bugatti Veyron around Auckland. After I bought the scooter I found a 5 minute drive in my car just made me pissed off and after a year of having the scooter I had run up ~20,000kms on the scooter and ~1,000kms on the car - so I sold the car.

For weekday city commuting - FUCK THE 4 WHEELED VEHICLES!

**BuzzardNZ** · 6th August 2010, 12:55

Originally Posted by CHR1S

The worst I can seem to get out of a 120 odd hp K7 SV thou is about 9l-100km...

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What mods did you do to get 120+ HP ?

**DangerMice** · 6th August 2010, 13:18

3l/100km on the scoot, but a tank only lasts 3 days

**SPman** · 6th August 2010, 13:25

6.8l/100km....on a 750! Holy shit....do you idle everywhere! Even our Getz only gets 7.3l/100km on a 200km round trip country/town. The 750SP got around 7.4, tootling, to 9.4l/100km tootling a bit faster. The GSXR1000 was about the same.....so is the RG250, come to that!

**MaxCannon** · 6th August 2010, 15:08

2006 BMW R1200S

Daily commuting - 6.5L / 100km
Important note - it's a 20 minute trip each way in heavy traffic. In the car it takes 60minutes.

Weekend touring - best of 4.5L / 100km, usually around the 5L / 100km mark

Racetrack thrashing - 11L / 100km - 4 trackdays and economy pretty consistent.

**MarkH** · 6th August 2010, 15:41

Originally Posted by MaxCannon

Daily commuting - 6.5L / 100km
Important note - it's a 20 minute trip each way in heavy traffic. In the car it takes 60minutes

I gotta wonder how much fuel various cars would use for that 60 minute trip compared to what a bike uses in the 20 minutes it takes. Surely the slow driving and stop-starting a car has to do would lead to really shitty economy, the bike being able to tick along at a more steady speed and not having to stop and waste gas idling should help it to use much less fuel on the trip.

Before I sold the car I had plenty of occasions when I would be on the southern motorway in 2nd gear, then 1st gear, then stopped, then moving at 5-10kph, then stopped, then . . .
I can't see how this could be very efficient on fuel - on the scooter I can tootle along at 20-40kph passed the cars that are going 0-10kph and I MUST be getting a LOT better fuel economy.

**ernie953** · 6th August 2010, 17:53

Set the trip computer on my last ride, gas up at 235kms & took 12lts, 19.5 kms per ltr & averaged 95kms per hour. Gotta love those triples.

**CHR1S** · 6th August 2010, 23:15

BuzzardNZ
Originally Posted by CHR1S
The worst I can seem to get out of a 120 odd hp K7 SV thou is about 9l-100km...

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What mods did you do to get 120+ HP ?

Ahhhhhh ya get 120 ODD with a just by putting gas in mate! (flywheel)

**Dschubba** · 9th August 2010, 21:34

15l/100km
tyres cost as much as the gas
insurance and rego cost twice as much as the car.

aint a money saver!

**neels** · 10th August 2010, 09:16

My XJ runs about 5.5l/100k, and pretty much regardless of how I ride it or how loaded up it is I still get 300k's to reserve. Heaps cheaper than my 4wd at about 10l/100k and no RUC.

I have yet to see my scooter's stated fuel economy of 130mpg or about 2.2l/100k, although I guess it might get that if I stopped it leaking more fuel than it burns, damned 50 year old carb...