Needing some more help!

[Ixion]

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Fuel consumption (50 km/h constant bench test)
42.5 km/Liter (43.5 km/Liter)

Read and weep, course it is for a new 45hp gj74a one

That's a bench test figure. Running at revs equivalent to 50kph in top. No wind resistance, no tyre resistance, no acceleration, no braking. No correlation at all to day to day riding

[Wasp]

oh ok, that does make sense, cheers Ixion

[Maverick]

Yeah, every Bandit 250 owner I asked or talked to on international bandit message boards reckoned between 180 - 200km from full to reserve. aka around 15km/litre

[Fox Rider]

whats the power delivery like? if your say cruising let off on the throttle and snap it on again does it accelerate instantly and smoothly? or like "stall" for a bit then slowly kick in?

i think I only get roughlyabout 10km/L on mine, mind you - mine has been officially timed at doing 176km/h (oh and i've seen it off the speedo )

Well thats a good question... Its all good and everything, like when i let off the revs and then pull them back up it does it instantly and without fault but sometimes i stop at the lights and it idles at abut 2,000rpm and i go to put the gas on and it doesnt do anything, it sits still.. it eventually comes right if i hold it on constantly but it really shouldnt be doing that.

[Fox Rider]

Yeah, every Bandit 250 owner I asked or talked to on international bandit message boards reckoned between 180 - 200km from full to reserve. aka around 15km/litre

Oh well that doesnt make me feel so worried then... But where are those extra 30-40km's going?... Is there noone on this site in Christchurch who knows how to do the 'Strip the carb' Jobby?

[Toaster]

Thats the funniest thing I have heard in a long time,
15km/l maybe,

agreed. 15km/l would be closer... depending on riding style.

[Wasp]

sometimes i stop at the lights and it idles at abut 2,000rpm and i go to put the gas on and it doesnt do anything, it sits still.. it eventually comes right if i hold it on constantly but it really shouldnt be doing that.

ive spent 5-10 minutes on the side of the road doing that on many occasion, just ask phoenixgtr lol. fortunately for me i bought my bike from a dealer - i took it back and told em to fix it and they figured out it was the carbs (they didnt say exactly what it was with the carbs though)

however, my bike wasnt accelerating smoothly sometimes (i now know that the carb slides must have been not opening or closing properly).

it took me and Slingshot about 2 hours to clean mine but he knew what he was doing as he had owned a gsx and had replaced the needles or something on that.

[ruinedinc]

Thats the funniest thing I have heard in a long time,
15km/l maybe,

yea i agree 50 km/L seems utterly unrealistic... i've been trying to figure out how many k's my tank can actually run and the k's keep goin up a hell of a lot faster than 50 k's each litre!!

[Mom]

yea i agree 50 km/L seems utterly unrealistic... i've been trying to figure out how many k's my tank can actually run and the k's keep goin up a hell of a lot faster than 50 k's each litre!!

Goodness me, I think you take the biscuit for thread dredging. This was posted two and a half years ago!

[Jantar]

Fuel consumption (50 km/h constant bench test)
42.5 km/Liter (43.5 km/Liter)

Read and weep, course it is for a new 45hp gj74a one

That is a bench test (ie an artificial rolling road) with no air resistance, traffic, hills etc, and bears no relevence to what you can expect while actually riding.

[Wasp]

jeezez cripes fark me... 2 of my old posts dug up from the dust?!

first time ive been on kb in MONTHS though lol

i've still got my bandit too ROFL, never did sell it, haven't ridden it in like 2 years now