250 Hornet riders...

[Reido]

So where are all the 250 Hornet riders?

where i want to be, out riding

[Merlin733]

Normal riding...round town I get 250km ( think the best was almost 300km ) but giving it a thrashing i still get at leaste 200km......

[TOTO]

My 250 hornet gets about 200 till it reaches the "reserve" point as I dont have a flickable switch but rather a fuel gage. Anyhow depending on your riding 170km seems ok, coz you gotta remember hornets have a big reserve too - like 4Litres.

generally should give you not less than 20km per litre if you are riding it normally not constant trashing. if you get less than that it is probabaly time for a carb adjustment on the next service.


Oh and Reido - stop bragging about yr 250 nonja - it aint a hornet and no matter how much you would like it to be it never will. Get a hornet

[Paris]

Thanks folks ... all good, I flicked the switch to the reserve at 170kms, so on the basis of a 4l reserve, that's 170ks on 12l of gas ... love the machine to bits and it is great as a learner bike, stable and all .. with some poke later once my confidence has climbed up there!!

[skidMark]

So where are all the 250 Hornet riders?

Riding i would imagine.

[samgab]

Thanks folks ... all good, I flicked the switch to the reserve at 170kms, so on the basis of a 4l reserve, that's 170ks on 12l of gas ... love the machine to bits and it is great as a learner bike, stable and all .. with some poke later once my confidence has climbed up there!!

Maybe once you've done a few more K's, and gone through a couple more tanks of gas give us an update on how many K's you usually get from full to reserve. I'd be interested.

[Reido]

Oh and Reido - stop bragging about yr 250 nonja - it aint a hornet and no matter how much you would like it to be it never will. Get a hornet

shhh you >_> just cause you have one of the original bikes i wanted

[Paris]

will do m8

[Paris]

Yo ...couple of you were keen to hear how the fuel consumption was going after a few more k's - well, happy to report that the 250 Hornet is doing about 200-220 kms on 12litres, which is about 330 ish on a full tank (16l), between 4.5 and 5l per 100kms, that's travelling on average at around 80 - 100kmh up and down SH16 ... all I can assume is that when I bought it, the buggers didn't give me a full tank!! Long live the Hornet..

[TOTO]

Yo ...couple of you were keen to hear how the fuel consumption was going after a few more k's - well, happy to report that the 250 Hornet is doing about 200-220 kms on 12litres, which is about 330 ish on a full tank (16l), between 4.5 and 5l per 100kms, that's travelling on average at around 80 - 100kmh up and down SH16 ... all I can assume is that when I bought it, the buggers didn't give me a full tank!! Long live the Hornet..

Thats bloody good man

Seems your baby is working perfect. Gotta love them hornets

[samgab]

Yo ...couple of you were keen to hear how the fuel consumption was going after a few more k's - well, happy to report that the 250 Hornet is doing about 200-220 kms on 12litres, which is about 330 ish on a full tank (16l), between 4.5 and 5l per 100kms, that's travelling on average at around 80 - 100kmh up and down SH16 ... all I can assume is that when I bought it, the buggers didn't give me a full tank!! Long live the Hornet..

Oh yup, good stuff, thanks for the update. I ended up getting a VTR250, so I'll also be interested to see what sort of mileage I get from that.

[gijoe1313]

Well my lil'ol'hornet is thirstier than the standard, I get about 160km before I have to flick to reserve, depending on how much fun I have been having usally get between 220-240km per tank. But then, dual pipes and a bit of tweaks have been done to my one by the previous engineer owner!

And it will soon be a new bike ... only 1400km to go before it rolls over to a new one!

[quickbuck]

Yo ...couple of you were keen to hear how the fuel consumption was going after a few more k's - well, happy to report that the 250 Hornet is doing about 200-220 kms on 12litres, which is about 330 ish on a full tank (16l), between 4.5 and 5l per 100kms, that's travelling on average at around 80 - 100kmh up and down SH16 ... all I can assume is that when I bought it, the buggers didn't give me a full tank!! Long live the Hornet..

That's better.
Most likely they didn't give you a full tank.

Also, if you are the first owner in NZ then it will take a little while for all the cr@p in the engine to sort itself out, and the bike run properly. You may even need to wind back the idle soo aswell.
Good news the bike will only get better the more it is ridden.

They sit for a while over in Japan you see......

If you are the second owner in NZ then disregard.

[Paris]

That's better.
Most likely they didn't give you a full tank.

Also, if you are the first owner in NZ then it will take a little while for all the cr@p in the engine to sort itself out, and the bike run properly. You may even need to wind back the idle soo aswell.
Good news the bike will only get better the more it is ridden.

They sit for a while over in Japan you see......

If you are the second owner in NZ then disregard.

cheers quickbuck .. all good, yup I'm the first NZ owner - sound advice thx

[Paris]

Well my lil'ol'hornet is thirstier than the standard, I get about 160km before I have to flick to reserve, depending on how much fun I have been having usally get between 220-240km per tank. But then, dual pipes and a bit of tweaks have been done to my one by the previous engineer owner!

And it will soon be a new bike ... only 1400km to go before it rolls over to a new one!

what's your new one!?