Gas mileage

[Tryhard]

not at all.....

that sort of treatment is reserved for boneheads and tryhards

LOL just seeing if u were still up bigboy

[blackdog]

LOL just seeing if u were still up bigboy

i just can't resist the bait.........

[rwh]

Hmm. Seems like my 11ish km/l is pretty bad then That's mostly commuting, not thrashing it.

Now do you know why it's km/L with a capital "L"? ISO stated the abbreviation for litre should be capital L, despite the litre not being named after a person, so that it's never confused with the figure 1.

ISO you say? I'm sure SI says to use a small l (I always make it loopy when I handwrite it to try and avoid confusion)

Wikipedia says L under SI; then under litre, it points out that a litre is not an SI unit (but accepted for use with SI) and that both upper and lower case are accepted as 'official symbols' - and the cursive l I mentioned above is used in some places, but isn't standardised by anyone.

Well well.

Richard

[blackdog]

Hmm. Seems like my 11ish km/l is pretty bad then :

Richard

mate thats horrendous! give or take the same as the bandit (riding hardish)........

specs i got for your bike reckon 16km/l, so that city riding makes quite a difference aye?

[rwh]

mate thats horrendous! give or take the same as the bandit (riding hardish)........

This is one of the reasons I haven't been tagging much recently ...

specs i got for your bike reckon 16km/l, so that city riding makes quite a difference aye?

That's less difference than I thought. Maybe it's not so stuffed after all.

Richard

[blackdog]

That's less difference than I thought. Maybe it's not so stuffed after all.

2/3 of what it should be? id say quite a large percentage difference....ie/200 rather than 300 km per tank (ish)

[rwh]

2/3 of what it should be? id say quite a large percentage difference....ie/200 rather than 300 km per tank (ish)

Yeah - and given I try not to touch the reserve, it's usually only about 130k when I fill up.

I need a wof in a couple of weeks; I'll get them to have a look when I take it in.

Richard

[CRF119]

Thats better then my 250 bandit, dont know what it got but my CBR900RR is better then it was and the price of gas has gone up.

[Lurch]

Seriously, I have never seen ANY bike get 37km/l ... you sure that's right?

I'm pretty sure my old 2008 GT250R did a bit over 400km to about 15L at highway speeds which is approximately 27Km/L so i would also question that figure.

[BuzzardNZ]

After all the mods I've made to my bike....
snorkel removal, smart TRE, TPS adjustment, 2 brothers cans, BMC air filter, TEKA EFI re-map + dyno tune,
I get around 150km per 17 litres, I used to get around 180, but there is a price to be paid for all the extra power it makes and thats at the pump.

[bogan]

After all the mods I've made to my bike....
snorkel removal, smart TRE, TPS adjustment, 2 brothers cans, BMC air filter, TEKA EFI re-map + dyno tune,
I get around 150km per 17 litres, I used to get around 180, but there is a price to be paid for all the extra power it makes and thats at the pump.

shit thats atrocious my bros 650 gets 160-180km out of 9L, my shitily tuned carby van got around those figures! Though getting it properly tuned and dyno'd would make it not too bad on efficiency, or maybe you just thrash the crap out of it everywhere!

[MSTRS:Me]

that could just be cause FZRs are gas guzzlers I went from around 300ks /17lts on my ZZR 250 down to 200 at a push on the FZR 400. considering its only an extra 150cc, thats pretty crap

It's not the cc difference, but the engine design. ZZR is a ploddy twin, FZR is a performance 4 cyl. World of difference.

Be carefull wot ya say on here m8 doing over a 100kmh on a 6L can get you shot down and spat at real quick.

That depends on where it's being done...
Most of us recognise that it's a baaaad idea to adhere to 70kph on the open road or motorway.

[just1jones]

I can corroborate that FZRs are guzzlers, I have a '91 FZR250rr and I only get 10km/L I have to start thinking about filling up once I hit 130kms :S
From the sounds of things thats pretty horrendous. Any ideas on what I can do to improve it? Tuning carbs maybe?

[5t3a1F]

I can corroborate that FZRs are guzzlers, I have a '91 FZR250rr and I only get 10km/L I have to start thinking about filling up once I hit 130kms :S
From the sounds of things thats pretty horrendous. Any ideas on what I can do to improve it? Tuning carbs maybe?

if your bike is performing okay, starting alright, and not blowing any untoward smoke leave the damn carbs alone

your high gas usage in my opinion is either because its mostly stop/start short city squirts around the place or you ride the shit out of it everywhere you go (or both)

[Laxi]

if your bike is performing okay, starting alright, and not blowing any untoward smoke leave the damn carbs alone

your high gas usage in my opinion is either because its mostly stop/start short city squirts around the place or you ride the shit out of it everywhere you go (or both)

but the things sound soooo good above 9000rpm