'Long range' bikes - from factory?

[Banditbandit]

its funny when you have a big tanked motorbike...I used to just run about half a tank on the gspd.,But if i was going for a decent explore i used to fill the 35l tank to the brim.Go into the servo and the attendant does a double or triple take...look at bike,look at till,look at me,look at till ,look at bike,,,,wow thats a big tank!

I got the same reaction when filling mine ...

I've filled up in Napier, riden to Wellington, then up the Kapiti Coast - switched onto reserve just before Levin ... when I stopped it took 33 litres - so I still had two litres left - may well have go to Palmy North ...

[James Deuce]

The Versys is kind of amazing. The tank is 19l and when the last bar is blinking it still has 9l in the tank. I reckon I could get 360km easily and 400km with a bit of care. It's double what I was used to with the XJR and that had a 21l tank. I'd be getting very nervous at 230km on the XJR.

[Tazz]

Is it about the same? When I looked up stats on it I was disappointed to see it was more around the mid to high 4s per 100km?

Here's how I'm tracking, almost all of it commuting though:

The overall averages are below 4:

http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/honda/cb500x

The only bike I've put on there averages 6